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Re:Altruism Isn’t Always Attractive by michalu on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:53PM (#20840297)
Nothing that new. It's been established the attraction is rather heavily linked to the dark triad traits: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychology-uncove...

... one of them being narcissism and the rationale is that self-centered people have higher chances of survival, therefore they're a good "genetic match."

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Re:Altruism Isn’t Always Attractive by AstralStorm on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:02PM (#20840951)
I'd add "are perceived" to that statement. Agents never have actual knowledge of survival odds and we don't even have statistics like that...
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