Yeah, those are the things I found, but none of them are the thing I remember, which was something that explained how punishment is costly (risky) for the punisher due to free-riding by non-punishers, so we evolved the desire to punish non-punishers in order to ensure nobody gets away with free-riding. None of these articles cover that, which is a surprise to me since I had to have read that idea somewhere, and it feels to me like something that’s part of the rationalsphere zeitgeist, yet I can’t seem to place where I actually read it.
Anyway, I’m thinking what I’ll do for now is link to this question from my article, so people can see all the collected answers here. ;-)
Yeah, those are the things I found, but none of them are the thing I remember, which was something that explained how punishment is costly (risky) for the punisher due to free-riding by non-punishers, so we evolved the desire to punish non-punishers in order to ensure nobody gets away with free-riding. None of these articles cover that, which is a surprise to me since I had to have read that idea somewhere, and it feels to me like something that’s part of the rationalsphere zeitgeist, yet I can’t seem to place where I actually read it.
Anyway, I’m thinking what I’ll do for now is link to this question from my article, so people can see all the collected answers here. ;-)
That does sound like an interesting post.
And yeah, linking to this question indeed seems like a fine substitute for now :)