drethelin comments on Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 18 December 2014 12:18:38AM 3 points [-]

I believe one phrase for it is the Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis

Comment author: taelor 19 December 2014 04:28:25AM 0 points [-]

The less dramatic name for it is the Social Brain Hypothesis. It was originally proposed by R. A. Dunbar (of Dunbar's number fame).