If humans had the computational capacity, they would lie a lot more and calculate personal advantage a lot more. But since those are both computationally expensive, and therefore can be caught-out by other humans, the heuristic / value of “actually care about your friends”, is competitive with “always be calculating your personal advantage.”
I think there’s a missing connection here. At least, it seemed a non sequitur at first read to me. At my first read, I thought this was positing that scaling up given humans’ computational capacity ceteris paribus makes them lie more. Seems strong (maybe for some).
But I think it’s instead claiming that if humans in general had been adapted under conditions of greater computational capacity, then the ‘actually care about your friends’ heuristic might have evolved lesser weight. That seems plausible (though the self-play aspect of natural selection means that this depends in part on how offence/defence scales for lying/detection).
But I think it’s instead claiming that if humans in general had been adapted under conditions of greater computational capacity, then the ‘actually care about your friends’ heuristic might have evolved lesser weight.
I think there’s a missing connection here. At least, it seemed a non sequitur at first read to me. At my first read, I thought this was positing that scaling up given humans’ computational capacity ceteris paribus makes them lie more. Seems strong (maybe for some).
But I think it’s instead claiming that if humans in general had been adapted under conditions of greater computational capacity, then the ‘actually care about your friends’ heuristic might have evolved lesser weight. That seems plausible (though the self-play aspect of natural selection means that this depends in part on how offence/defence scales for lying/detection).
+1, that’s what I understood the claim to be.