[extropy-chat] Death Toll

[Dirk Bruere]

Jef Allbright wrote:

> Jeff Davis wrote:
>
>> If survival is the goal, then you get there by
>> rational behavior.  If multiple individuals with
>> similar values act in concert, their survival ***as a
>> group*** may be enhanced, but the similarity to
>> tribalism is merely coincidental.  
>>  
>>
> Jeff makes a good point about rationality, but it is an ideal that 
> doesn't fully map onto the world in which we live.  Do to real 
> constraints on contextual knowledge and processing time, instinctive 
> behavior can be much more survival enhancing than a so-called rational 
> approach.  I think we are near the crossover point, however, beyond 
> which the survival of humans and their organizations will most 
> certainly depend on expanded contextual awareness and associated 
> processing.
>
I suggest simple game theory indicates otherwise.
Namely, that a group A acting consistently in concert will win every 
time over either individuals or a looser group B that sometimes act for 
their own group and sometimes for A depending on circumstance.

-- 
Dirk

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