Finally got around to reading this. I like this idea that signaling virtue is largely about proving cooporation in cases where unvirtuous behavior would be better for everyone because it shows you’ll be virtuous in those cases where being unvirtuous is worse since you are so committed to virtue as to be virtuous when it is costly. This gives a nice formalization of that idea around a particular game to show how it can arise and be stable.
Finally got around to reading this. I like this idea that signaling virtue is largely about proving cooporation in cases where unvirtuous behavior would be better for everyone because it shows you’ll be virtuous in those cases where being unvirtuous is worse since you are so committed to virtue as to be virtuous when it is costly. This gives a nice formalization of that idea around a particular game to show how it can arise and be stable.