merely an affective category, a class of situations activating a certain psychological adaptation
-- then we should ask what features of the ancestral environment caused us to evolve it. We might understand it better in that case.
I suspect that the ancestral environment came with a very strong notion of a default outcome for a given human, in the absence of there being any particular negotiation, and also came with a clear notion of negative interaction (stabbing, hitting, kicking) versus positive interaction (giving fish, teaching how to hunt better, etc).
Uh, spending effort on hurting people is negative-sum and most likely lose-lose, while teaching someone to hunt is positive-sum lose-win. Or maybe you see some deeper mystery here that I’m not seeing?
The problem with “lose-lose” is that it relies upon there being a “defualt outcome given no interaction”. Vladimir is trying to taboo this concept, at least in general. So I am going to focus on a relevant special case, namely specific interactions available in the ancestral environment.
Suppose that Blackmail is
-- then we should ask what features of the ancestral environment caused us to evolve it. We might understand it better in that case.
I suspect that the ancestral environment came with a very strong notion of a default outcome for a given human, in the absence of there being any particular negotiation, and also came with a clear notion of negative interaction (stabbing, hitting, kicking) versus positive interaction (giving fish, teaching how to hunt better, etc).
Uh, spending effort on hurting people is negative-sum and most likely lose-lose, while teaching someone to hunt is positive-sum lose-win. Or maybe you see some deeper mystery here that I’m not seeing?
The problem with “lose-lose” is that it relies upon there being a “defualt outcome given no interaction”. Vladimir is trying to taboo this concept, at least in general. So I am going to focus on a relevant special case, namely specific interactions available in the ancestral environment.
What ancestral environment are you thinking of?