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Humans are born with genes that reward us with intense pleasure when we punish traitors. Punishing traitors is the group’s way of enforcing cooperation. We evolved cooperation by evolving a congenital delight in punishing sinners. See Dyson Edge Conversation  (http://bit.ly/QKdg9m)

THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA [1]

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Institute for Advanced Study [3]
Freeman Dyson
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[ Thu. Dec. 6. 2012 ]

Humans are born with genes that reward us with intense pleasure when we punish traitors. Punishing traitors is the group’s way of enforcing cooperation. We evolved cooperation by evolving a congenital delight in punishing sinners. See Dyson Edge Conversation  (http://bit.ly/QKdg9m [4])

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[1] http://www.edge.org/news/the-prisoners-dilemma
[2] http://is.gd/XIuVJH
[3] http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/ias-letter/articles/2012-fall/dyson-dilemma
[4] http://edge.org/conversation/on-iterated-prisoner-dilemma