my apologies, I am habitually suspicious of everyone. I suppose I should just focus on sharing why it doesn’t matter how selfish one is, honesty is the best policy even in competitive games, and until we reach our universe’s energy use limits, we have a lot of (mostly fission or someday fusion) power sources left to build and diseases left to end, as a society, and the world is primarily a cooperative game of “build more power sources and prevent damages incurred by them”. that way I don’t even have to ask, just share why I think trying to win at anything long term ends up implying wanting to end bad things as quickly as technology permits. If you’re interested, I’d suggest checking out work on evo game theory—the summary is that a cooperation network of generous tit for tat with forgiveness has always been humanity’s strength, and increasingly wide circles of cooperation and coprotection network are the historical norm and how we’ve gotten where we are. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out what life you’d like to have and how this works into it.
I don’t mean to imply a change; just that I have a prior expectation, arising from evolutionary game theory, that a large percentage of people are prosocial by default, but that in some circumstances, people can choose to activate genetic networks which are not, and that it’s important to start out guardedly friendly in case someone has chosen to reach into, to speak approximately, destructively competitive lineage self-actualization. I see others have given mostly the suggestions I’d have given anyhow.
my apologies, I am habitually suspicious of everyone. I suppose I should just focus on sharing why it doesn’t matter how selfish one is, honesty is the best policy even in competitive games, and until we reach our universe’s energy use limits, we have a lot of (mostly fission or someday fusion) power sources left to build and diseases left to end, as a society, and the world is primarily a cooperative game of “build more power sources and prevent damages incurred by them”. that way I don’t even have to ask, just share why I think trying to win at anything long term ends up implying wanting to end bad things as quickly as technology permits. If you’re interested, I’d suggest checking out work on evo game theory—the summary is that a cooperation network of generous tit for tat with forgiveness has always been humanity’s strength, and increasingly wide circles of cooperation and coprotection network are the historical norm and how we’ve gotten where we are. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out what life you’d like to have and how this works into it.
I don’t mean to imply a change; just that I have a prior expectation, arising from evolutionary game theory, that a large percentage of people are prosocial by default, but that in some circumstances, people can choose to activate genetic networks which are not, and that it’s important to start out guardedly friendly in case someone has chosen to reach into, to speak approximately, destructively competitive lineage self-actualization. I see others have given mostly the suggestions I’d have given anyhow.
Except, I’d have mentioned guild of the rose.