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Burnage Garden Village is at war - and the stakes couldn't be lower

The Mill • 1100 implied HN points • 02 Sep 23
🎭️ Culture Community Conflict Cooperation Journalism Rules
  1. Burnage Garden Village faced a small-scale war driven by internal power struggles within the housing cooperative.
  2. The community's fixation on rules and structure led to tensions and a departure from the original goal of fostering warmth and community.
  3. The story highlights the challenges of cooperative living and the complexities that can arise in tightly knit communities.

The importance of a good reputation

Optimally Irrational • 17 implied HN points • 06 Mar 24
🔬 Science Social Interactions Game Theory Evolutionary biology Psychology Cooperation
  1. Reputation is like a second self that guides our actions, influencing how others perceive and interact with us.
  2. People can build a good reputation by consistently displaying cooperative and trustworthy behavior over time.
  3. While reputation takes time to build up, it can be lost quickly, emphasizing the importance of maintaining trust and integrity in social interactions.
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Holistic Ethics

Tom Thought • 19 implied HN points • 05 Dec 23
📖 Philosophy Ethics Policy Cooperation Character
  1. Moral questions are complex and involve considerations about goals, rules, obligations, praise, punishment, emulation, habits, and associations.
  2. Outcomes and rules are both important in ethics, with goals being critical for motivation and rules for guidance, but bad outcomes lead to the need to revise rules.
  3. Morality is a process involving preferences, policies, cooperation, values, character, rules, and actions, aimed at aligning behavior to produce beneficial outcomes.

The game theoretical foundations of morality

Optimally Irrational • 4 implied HN points • 15 May 23
🔬 Science Game Theory Morality Behavior Evolution Cooperation
  1. Game theory shows that cooperation can be rational even in self-interested settings like the Prisoner's Dilemma.
  2. The Folk Theorem explains how sustained cooperation can emerge in repeated interactions through strategies like tit-for-tat.
  3. Simple and intuitive reciprocity-based strategies like tit-for-tat can be successful in promoting cooperation and may underlie our moral intuitions.

🎧 AUDIO Now Available - VERSES AI Announces AGI Breakthrough - Invokes Open AI's 'Assist' Clause

Spatial Web AI by Denise Holt • 0 implied HN points • 15 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI AGI Cooperation Innovation Podcasts
  1. VERSES AI is emphasizing a 'natural' approach to AGI, diverging from traditional 'artificial' intelligence methods.
  2. The Active Inference breakthrough challenges conventional AI models, suggesting a new, innovative path in AI development.
  3. There's a significant call for collaboration and cooperation within the AI community, aligning with a mission for safe AGI with human-centered values.

Economists found something surprising and you wont believe what happened next

Joshua Gans' Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 15 Apr 17
🔬 Science Research Replication Uncertainty Cooperation Experimental
  1. Uncertainty can actually increase cooperation in certain situations.
  2. To address breakdowns in cooperation in scientific studies, integration mechanisms like co-authorship can increase credibility and reliability of results.
  3. In the face of surprising experimental findings, proposing new mechanisms and experiments can lead to advancements in scientific knowledge.