Humans can kill another human and get access to their land and food. Whatever caused co operation to evolve, it isn’t that there is no benefit to defection.
But land and food doesnt actually give you more computational capability: only having another human being cooperate with you in some way can.
The essential point here is that values depend upon the environment and the limitations thereof, so as you change the limitations, the values change. The values important for a deep sea creature with extremely limited energy budget, for example, will be necessarily different from that of human beings.
Humans can kill another human and get access to their land and food. Whatever caused co operation to evolve, it isn’t that there is no benefit to defection.
But land and food doesnt actually give you more computational capability: only having another human being cooperate with you in some way can.
The essential point here is that values depend upon the environment and the limitations thereof, so as you change the limitations, the values change. The values important for a deep sea creature with extremely limited energy budget, for example, will be necessarily different from that of human beings.