Development of morality and cooperation

7 important questions on Development of morality and cooperation

Why are cooporation and morality seen as pretty much the same?

If you share moral values you can cooperate.

Think of the five moral intuitions and how they are automatically split up into separate parties.

How does prisoner's dilemma reflect the altruism problem?

Each person can gain from cooperating, but each is tempted to gain the benefit of a partner's altruism without reciprocating.

What is the tit for tat strategy?

1. Never be the first to defect - always start out by coperating, and continue to cooperate as long as the other player does also
2. Retaliate only after the other has defected - defect immediately after the first instance of non-reciprocation,
3. Be forgiving - if a previously defecting player starts to cooperate, then reciprocate the cooperation and get on a mutually beneficial cycle.

Or said in a diffrent way: First, do unto others as you wish them to do unto you, but then do unto them as they have just done to you.
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What does Cosmides and Tooby find about math problems and cheater-detection?

Humans have not evolved to respond to abstract logical problems, they have evolved however to respond to problems structured as social exchanges when they are presented in terms of costs and benefits.

Why is this?
People reason correctly when something is structured as as social contract.

How can reciprocal altruism explain why there are not more cheaters around?

They die out, because no one wants to work with them, so they have to do it on their own.

What are the two types of altruism?

- Kin altruism: helping kin so that our own genes can live on
o Care/harm/suffering moral system is activated here
- Mutualism and Reciprocity: sharing so that you can receive later
o Reciprocity is also one of our moral modules

What is the tragedy of risk peception commons?

The tragedy of risk perception commons: you do not want to have a different opinion than the rest of the group, because then you will not be excluded, so sometimes you do stupid acts, because that is what the rest of the group is doing.

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