THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA

[ 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)

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