Supercooperators

[felpaluche]

I'd like to be one and to be with as many that can be.

[LukyXerX]

Why did I subscribe to this chanell? I got a headache :/ :P

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, ...

[dewinthemorning]

Who said that science can't investigate the forming of human morality through real processes in the life of individuals, on which natural selection carried out evolution?

[xjustamem0ryx]

@dewinthemorning

seriously. are there any hands more safe to lend to investigation than those of science?

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

@xjustamem0ryx

philosophers raise lots of objections and reframe these issues in interesting ways. Try also Philosophy Bites podcast on iTunes. It's similar to a Jobs|Gates thing. Meanwhile Intel is like... bum bum bum bum!

[xjustamem0ryx]

@DavidEdwardSchnell

nice thanks.

[EyNRoK]

Applying Mathematics and Science to social concerns ! Way to Go !

[mrd999]

also, if the system does consistently approach total cooperation which collapses into total defection, then occasional interjection with defection despite the presence of cooperation would help to stabilize the system just as providing cooperation probabilistically does. perhaps a function to optimize cooperation with the local conditions with randomizing exceptions at extremes of cooperation and defection can deter catastrophic transitions from total cooperation to total defection.

[mrd999]

something like, "these conditions i'm encountering are so extreme and rare, i no longer trust my own senses and will respond randomly"

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

@mrd999

you can't always smooth out the rough edges because, to put it crassly, "it bites you in the ass" unexpectedly.

[mrd999]

an intelligent agent can model the system, and if encountering statistically significant numbers of defectors in a short period, assume there is a defector-bias in the local region, and then choose to relocate.  if the agent has no locality (an omniscience or global interconnectedness), then it would be rational to maintain a cooperative outlook if only to encourage the population as a whole to preserve cooperation.

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

@mrd999

long-term investment precludes relocation. companies threaten to leave but only do so in view of decades not years.

[selvmordspilot]

Awesome accent is awesome.

Also, super interesting lecture.

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

@selvmordspilot

OK Warren, cool your helicopter engines. I'm not buying today.

[selvmordspilot]

@DavidEdwardSchnell : lol, wtf does that even mean?

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

@selvmordspilot

yeah.

[Zgembo1223]

i think my mind just exploed

[nouraalkahtani]

a person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person and this is how justice is served. if you're a buddhist you call it "Karma" and if you're mesopotamian who strictly followed the first code of laws in human history you called it "an eye for an eye" but if you're a jew, christian or muslim most probably you believe that you will be rewarded by heaven or punished by hell after death and most recently if you're an atheist you will call it supercooperation.

[bianodias2000]

So he discovered what Piotr Kropotkin said 1907 on Mutual Aid - The key factor to evolution

[MarkoKraguljac]

Most of this is old news but worth repeating. Going further and exploring practical implications would be novel AFAIK. Dont let it float as abstraction, bring it to the ground and confront it with present culture and practices. Thats tough considering emergent nature of life (from bacteria to humans) but is the right way to go. Emergent means that although every participant uses strict rules final result cannot be strictly predicted (by our puny minds and math). Watch lectures of Robert Sapolsky

[thruthem]

Important!

[etzel33]

That's Dambisa Moyo at 0:13 !!

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

@etzel33

l33t

[etzel33]

@etzel33 Hey, I'm a fan. what can I say....