Let’s consider the ethics involved in giving someone a life-extending organ – and then demanding for it to be returned: a US man divorcing his wife is demanding that she returns the kidney he donated to her, or pay him $1.5m in compensation. (BBC) Apparently, the two married in 1990 and he donated a kidney to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Complexity of Cooperation’
For goodness sake, reciprocate?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: altruism, altruistic, Complexity of Cooperation, Confucius, Court-flick, defection vs. Cooperation, deontic, deontic reasoning, deontological ethics, evolutionary behavioural impulses, Evolutionary Psychology, generosity, iterative game, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, Liberality, Matthew, Meanness, miserliness, Niccolo Machiavelli, Prisoner’s Dilemma, reciprocity, reciprocity-dependant deed, Robert Axelrod, the Analects, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Prince, thriftiness
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The Evolution of Cooperation
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Anatole Rapoport, Chris Anderson, Complexity of Cooperation, cooperation, Crowdsourcing, IPD, Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, James Surowiecki, live and let live, reciprocity, Richard Hofstadter, Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Long Tail, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, the Prisoner's Dilemma, The Wisdom of Crowds, TIT-FOR-TAT, Übersession
My friend Tony is one of those amazing sources of things that make my brain go ToingToing! We were chatting about Crowdsourcing – an übersession (which is like an obsession on steroids) of mine, ToingToing’ed here and here. Tony read a few great books on the subject (notably James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the many [...]