Eliezer: cool story idea. Wait, how did they manage to avoid developing a notion of forgiveness in some form? I mean, isn’t that more or less required to stabilize out of sync tit-for-tat oscillations? Or am I completely wrong on this?
tit-for-tat oscillations / cycles of vengeance happen with humans because we’re naturally averse to killing each other, even those we don’t like. So we tend to leave survivors.
There are two ways to solve the issue: Forgiveness to reset the scales, or wholesale extermination of the other group and all their allies. The baby-eaters settled on the latter.
Eliezer: cool story idea. Wait, how did they manage to avoid developing a notion of forgiveness in some form? I mean, isn’t that more or less required to stabilize out of sync tit-for-tat oscillations? Or am I completely wrong on this?
tit-for-tat oscillations / cycles of vengeance happen with humans because we’re naturally averse to killing each other, even those we don’t like. So we tend to leave survivors.
There are two ways to solve the issue: Forgiveness to reset the scales, or wholesale extermination of the other group and all their allies. The baby-eaters settled on the latter.