• agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    True. It is plausible. At the same time I have to think that if the human race hasn’t evolved to factor cooperation in tribes in most cases, we wouldn’t be here discussing this.

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      7 months ago

      Cooperation is beneficial to each individual’s survival when most in the population are cooperative. Pragmatic self-interest is beneficial to each individual’s survival when most in the population are selfish and pragmatic. I think most people tend to be cooperative, but there are plenty who will opportunistically fuck over cooperative people. The results would probably depend on the tendencies of the majority of the individuals in that situation.

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        7 months ago

        It depends entirely on how much established power the individual fucking over the others has.

        If it’s as ephemeral as holding a seashell, they’ll probably get their shit beat in. But if it’s far more established and hierarchical, yeah they’ll end up with more power over the others.

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      7 months ago

      I kinda want the next one to a prison barge, just get the normal situation and and the massive outlier as the first two, just to mess with it for the next dozen until the pattern forms.