The more people you add, the greater the risk of something like that happening.
I’d believe that, for example, any given relationship participant has some arbitrary likelihood of one-place defection, and the likelihoods stack proportional to the number of participants. But I’m not sure that any given participant is more likely to defect the more people they are also in a relationship with—if defection is two-place, it seems like cooperation should be too.
I’d believe that, for example, any given relationship participant has some arbitrary likelihood of one-place defection, and the likelihoods stack proportional to the number of participants. But I’m not sure that any given participant is more likely to defect the more people they are also in a relationship with—if defection is two-place, it seems like cooperation should be too.