Nice Guys Finish First (5/5) - Richard Dawkins

Fifth (and last) part of the 1986 documentary from the BBC Horizon series. In this video Richard Dawkins explains how natural selection can favour co-operation in nature, so long as it is of benefit to the selfish gene.

His search for stable co-operate strategies, which remain unaffected by cheating and exploitation involves an extraordinary game known as the Prisoners' Dilemma, normally used by psychologists to study human behaviour.

In their attempts to earn real money, players must wrestle with a dilemma - whether to follow their natural instincts of co-operation or the dictates of reason and behave selfishly.

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[everl4stb]

just look at those sweet computer animations. they dont make em' like that anymore.

[datalal624]

The part about WWI was quite fascinating. I never knew tit-for-tat behaviour would have happened between Allied and Axis lines!

Thanks for posting!

[datalal624]

@dpm3759 Thanks! :)

[dpm3759]

@datalal624 Rent a movie called Joyeux Noel to learn more about the WWI Christmas Dawkins talks about. Very good movie!

[cr4yv3n]

@meadowsirl Did anyone thought of asking him?

[SukkaPunch321]

This documentary put me into a really good mood :)

[meadowsirl]

I am so happy i saw this documentary, i wonder what Richard Dawkins thinks of TZM.

[PrincessTS01]

Titt-4-tat vs. Cheats Sounds like what Romney & Bain Capital does.

[koyima]

the wwi thing just shows what retards get power and what they try to do with it. they are obviously not tit for tat and use all the tit for tat people to further their agendas.

[narutokage777]

Go try the tit for tat tactic with the us army but don't forget to dig your grave first..

[timfidotru]

There was the other thing in WWI. The soldiers felt more sympathy for their entrenched opponents, than for their generals and governments.

[PaladinswordSaurfang]

haha the google captions get so many words wrong!