I’ve referred to this as super cooperators and super defectors, but those terms aren’t used in the literature. I remember Joshua Greene citing something interesting in this space in his EAG talk in like 2015 or so but can’t find much. The video of his talk doesn’t have slides. The vivid memory I have is the surprising discovery of the super defectors, ie people who enforce against cooperators, and the tidbit that it only takes a small number of supers in either direction to flip the whole network over to the other equilibrium.
Yes, I managed to find posts about people who punish cooperators, the LW post by Martin Sustrik called “Anti-Social Punishment” and this old OB post by Robin called “Looking Too Good”.
I’ve referred to this as super cooperators and super defectors, but those terms aren’t used in the literature. I remember Joshua Greene citing something interesting in this space in his EAG talk in like 2015 or so but can’t find much. The video of his talk doesn’t have slides. The vivid memory I have is the surprising discovery of the super defectors, ie people who enforce against cooperators, and the tidbit that it only takes a small number of supers in either direction to flip the whole network over to the other equilibrium.
Yes, I managed to find posts about people who punish cooperators, the LW post by Martin Sustrik called “Anti-Social Punishment” and this old OB post by Robin called “Looking Too Good”.