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the-citizen comments on In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war continued by other means - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Eneasz 21 October 2014 07:39PM

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Comment author: the-citizen 24 October 2014 12:10:58PM 0 points [-]

Well I'd agree that's a force at an individual level. But there's also mechanisms to consider like group-selection (selecting against groups that spend all their time "playing" eachother) and negative reciprocation (punishing people that carry on like arrogant *s :-) )