Supercooperators: Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3plwTxdSO4
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/8382449/Martin-Nowak-a-helping-h...
http://www.youtube.com/dewinthemorning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NBeale/Corina_Tarni%C5%A3%C4%83
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/abs/nature09205.html?lang=en
Oops, forgot to add a link in case you might want to order the book:
http://www.amazon.com/SuperCooperators-Altruism-Evolution-Other-Succeed/dp/14...

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• darwin
• richard
• dawkins
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[odenskrigare]

what if all the crappy jobs are automated? then I won't need truckers whose weight in lbs. is at least four times their IQ to live anymore ... this idea of the "public good" is rather flimsy

[2bsirius]

@odenskrigare

Sorry but it's NOT about 'public good' per se...

It's about a lot of things...LIKE why game theory & instances of it like the prisoner's dilemma played in cooperatively, not competitively can have better outcomes

BUT, yes, it's also about something called Eusociality (Greek eu: "good/real" + "social") , a term used for the highest level of social organization in a hierarchical classification. It's NOT advocacy for that system particularly. It's studies its functionality

[Con't]

[2bsirius]

(2)

As for truckers who may be displaced from their jobs...I'm confused. These truckers are , unfortunately, not likely to do extremely well no matter what society they're living in, right? So I don't see the connection between their really bad plight and Martin Nowak's work or his book on evolutionary theory dynamics...

[dewinthemorning]

Thank you very much for bringing up this subject - the various mechanisms for the emerging of morality as we know it. It is not very simple. You can't describe this evolutionary (biological and social) process in one slogan. There are many books about it, and I would encourage a dialogue on this topic here on you tube, which is necessary, if we are to refute the theologians' ridiculous argument of 'objective' moral values, existing independantly from humans!

Thanks for mentioning me, too. :)

[2bsirius]

@dewinthemorning

Yes, I agree...It's too easy to reduce the complexity of evolutionary theory to a meme like "The Selfish Gene" for example. (Something that Dawkins, himself, has objected to in the past) To get a grip on it, we need to spend time exploring the literature on the subject as dispassionately as possible

That includes some exploration of evolutionary game theory, evolutionary mathematics, the ramification of culture on evolution, & likely a number of divergent theories as well.

[mazuiface]

@odenskrigare

I could use your reasoning to say that printers are bad for society and we should instead hire scribes. The printing press replaced the scribe, and something else can replace the trucker's job. There is no reason why this would be bad for society. In fact, it would be good.

[f417h2GRACE]

@f417h2GRACE

:)

I don't believe in coincidence

[f417h2GRACE]

Thank You

Great info

[dewinthemorning]

@Celephais42 :-)

I wouldn't go so far as to say you are wrong. :D

[slobomotion]

Uprated and favorited! Just today I spoke about groupthink, and yesterday, about altruism.  This video will be a good supplement to share if they do well on my groupthink assignment . . .

[DeathofSpeech]

Thanks very much.

This is looks really extraordinary.

I had come to the conclusion that morality was transactional but this seems to extend well beyond any thought I'd given it. What a lovely and brilliant young woman.

[DanaGarrett]

I watched the film. It was good. Thanks for the link.