I’d argue that the tie from “exit vs suffering” to “minimax strategy, mathematically modeled” is fairly tenuous, but there are elements in there that make sense. This discussion reminds me of https://principiadiscordia.com/book/45.php—the math MUST include a mechanism by which the punishers actually benefit from the equilibrium they’re enforcing, and it’s a puzzle to solve if there is no such reason but real humans do it anyway.
I’d argue that the tie from “exit vs suffering” to “minimax strategy, mathematically modeled” is fairly tenuous, but there are elements in there that make sense. This discussion reminds me of https://principiadiscordia.com/book/45.php—the math MUST include a mechanism by which the punishers actually benefit from the equilibrium they’re enforcing, and it’s a puzzle to solve if there is no such reason but real humans do it anyway.