Once we have the free riding rabbits placing resources into noticing and away from running
Placing emphasis on 'noticing vs running' is just confusing you. Noticing helps the rabbit run just as much as it helps it look in the right direction.
And then the signaling collapses?
No. Silas was just wrong. If average rabbit speed become slower then there will be a commensurate change in the threshold at which foxes chase rabbits even when they have been spotted. It will remain useful to show the fox that it has been spotted in all cases in which about 200ms of extra head start is worth sacrificing so that a chase may potentially be avoided.
If you are still confused, consider a situation in which rabbits and foxes always become aware of each other's presence at a distance of precisely 250m. Would anyone suggest that rabbits would freeload and not bother to be fast themselves in that circumstance? No. In the 'rabbits standing up' situation the rabbits will still want to be fast for precisely the same reason. All standing up does is force the mutually acknowledged awareness.
Placing emphasis on 'noticing vs running' is just confusing you. Noticing helps the rabbit run just as much as it helps it look in the right direction.
Sorry I wasn't being clear, previously I had always meant noticing=='showing the fox you have noticed it'.
If average rabbit speed become slower then there will be a commensurate change in the threshold at which foxes chase rabbits even when they have been spotted.
What threshold? I'm guessing other factors such as the fox's independent assessment of the rabbit's speed?
...It will remain useful to show t
Sweet, there's another Bloggingheads episode with Eliezer.
Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky: Science Saturday: Purposes and Futures