billswift comments on One possible issue with radically increased lifespan - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 31 May 2012 04:24:53PM *  1 point [-]

Not dominate, but force a mixed strategy; as I pointed out in another comment last week:

In game theory, whether social or evolutionary, a stable outcome usually (I'm tempted to say almost always) includes some level of cheaters/defectors.

Which requires the majority to have some means of dealing with them when they are encountered.