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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by titzer on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:17AM (#45348282)
That's a nice point. A society where everyone makes everything just a little bit better for the next random person will be a society full of nice surprises, rather than nasty ones.
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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by sdeframond on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:02PM (#45352706)
So an answer to the prisoner's dilemma would be a shared belief in doing good? Interesting.
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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by kakacik on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:11AM (#45360677)
Western Europe (not only) social system is based on such belief. It kept working till a lot of immigrants from pretty bad corrupted countries came in, abusing the system in ways it wasn't planned for.

So it works, sometimes, on limited populations.

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Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choo... by ConradJarret on Monday October 06, 2025 @05:45PM (#45496671)
It certainly helps when you all look alike and share other similar values.
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