From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 16:01:19 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Emlyn O'regan wrote:
>
>>I think there's a damned good reason that many societies have evolved to
>>favour irrational altruism... it makes the society a nicer place to be.
>>Sure, you can then take advantage by not being altruistic, by ignoring the
>>polite conventions, etc, but that is kept to a minimum by the greater mass
>>of the population being willing to kick your butt in many different ways to
>>discourage that behaviour. The tradgedy of the commons can be addressed by
>>not abusing the commons in the first place, and cooperating in strategies
>>with other likeminded individuals to encourage others to not abuse them, and
>>to punish those who do.
>>
>
> ERROR 514: group selection hypothesized
>
Error 999 : Assertion of error without proof.
- samantha
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