timtyler comments on Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2009 12:02AM

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Comment author: timtyler 20 July 2009 07:39:00AM 2 points [-]

...and if your companions have circuitry for detecting and punishing selfish behaviour - what then? That's how the "fairness drive" is implemented - get mad and punish cheaters until it hurts. That way, cheaters learn that crime doesn't pay - and act fairly.

Comment author: orthonormal 20 July 2009 05:27:15PM 0 points [-]

I agree. But you see how this individual selection pressure towards fairness is different from the group selection pressure that dclayh was actually asserting?

Comment author: timtyler 20 July 2009 07:17:23PM -1 points [-]

You and EY seem to be the people who are talking about group selection.