snarles comments on Where do selfish values come from? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: snarles 24 November 2011 11:57:52AM 1 point [-]

Just as altruism can be related to trust, selfishness can be related to distrust.

An agent which has a high prior belief in the existence of deceptive adversaries would exhibit "selfish" behaviors.