From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 09:30:58 MDT
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.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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