LazyGunn wrote:yeah,its unworkable, cause people are selfish pigsMod74 wrote:it definitely definitely would work if people would only do it right.
SpaceGazelle wrote:Altruism is required by most species to survive. That's probably its definition. I'm pretty sure this has been recorded at some point.
LazyGunn wrote:I think rats are essentially decent guys
Mod74 wrote:Actually, rather than selfishness, I think it's the complete lack of choice that skewers communism from a human nature perspective.
beano wrote:They just need more policies beyond 'green policies'.
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed.
Rand DG, Greene JD, Nowak MA.
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. [email protected]
Abstract
Cooperation is central to human social behaviour. However, choosing to cooperate requires individuals to incur a personal cost to benefit others. Here we explore the cognitive basis of cooperative decision-making in humans using a dual-process framework. We ask whether people are predisposed towards selfishness, behaving cooperatively only through active self-control; or whether they are intuitively cooperative, with reflection and prospective reasoning favouring 'rational' self-interest. To investigate this issue, we perform ten studies using economic games. We find that across a range of experimental designs, subjects who reach their decisions more quickly are more cooperative. Furthermore, forcing subjects to decide quickly increases contributions, whereas instructing them to reflect and forcing them to decide slowly decreases contributions. Finally, an induction that primes subjects to trust their intuitions increases contributions compared with an induction that promotes greater reflection. To explain these results, we propose that cooperation is intuitive because cooperative heuristics are developed in daily life where cooperation is typically advantageous. We then validate predictions generated by this proposed mechanism. Our results provide convergent evidence that intuition supports cooperation in social dilemmas, and that reflection can undermine these cooperative impulses.
JMW wrote:Rough and ready way to sort the altruism issue: Set up a dual carriageway with a sign saying the roads merge, all the cars that shoot down the right trying to get in at the end are channelled into a fiery pit, the rest form a new communist society.
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