Mhm. Those seem like important basic elements here.
Strategies that a smart person could figure out alone, or copy from others, such as “if you take a lot, but share some of that with a few people who agree to support you in turn, you can still have a lot, and also some allies instead of only enemies”.
I suspect there’s an additional important basic instinct here, and it’s not just coming from people figuring out strategies in the context of the two instincts you described. Chimps also play politics involving coalitions of several to go against the current leader. There’s general affiliation / loyalty building, and shared intentionality finding.
Mhm. Those seem like important basic elements here.
I suspect there’s an additional important basic instinct here, and it’s not just coming from people figuring out strategies in the context of the two instincts you described. Chimps also play politics involving coalitions of several to go against the current leader. There’s general affiliation / loyalty building, and shared intentionality finding.
Your example strategy reminds me of coalitional game theory, naturally.
I think it is paired with punishments. Trump rewards allies and punishes enemies. Someone described this strategy to me as “the king strategy”.