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Re:Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in P... by espeed on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:48PM (#13510003)
Are you familiar with Jonathan Haidt's work on the psychology of morality and the formation of superorganisms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt

NB: Also see this timely post on "information theory and the foundations of life" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13496133

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Re:Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in P... by mizzao on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:23PM (#13510247)
I've read some of Haidt's work but not that one in particular. Thanks for the pointer.
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Re:Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in P... by espeed on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:01PM (#13510548)
Here is one of Haidt's TED talks that touches on these ideas, cooperation, group selection, and the free-rider problem:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_...

Also this Edge article on "Contingent Superorganism" https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10386

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