These appear to be regarding typical 2 player prisoner’s dilemmas. What I’m curious about is if there’s an academic literature about this for larger groups, where they ostracize and punish.
Because if it works for them, then it can work for us… We could build unions where we signal to each other the same way, without need for central leadership.
I didn’t know that! Do you have a source?
PT has a number of good articles but this one seems to convey it rather well
Cornell even has a description of it having naturally evolved as the preferable strategy in their description
These appear to be regarding typical 2 player prisoner’s dilemmas. What I’m curious about is if there’s an academic literature about this for larger groups, where they ostracize and punish.
Because if it works for them, then it can work for us… We could build unions where we signal to each other the same way, without need for central leadership.