Greg is correct that altruism based on adaptation to small groups of kin can be expected to eventually burn out. However, the large sale of modern virtue signalling and reputations massively compensate for that—Those mechanisms can even create cooperation between total strangers on distant continents. What we are gaining massively exceeds what we are losing.
Greg is correct that altruism based on adaptation to small groups of kin can be expected to eventually burn out. However, the large sale of modern virtue signalling and reputations massively compensate for that—Those mechanisms can even create cooperation between total strangers on distant continents. What we are gaining massively exceeds what we are losing.