It seems to me that “selecting people with whom I can usefully cooperate” is different from “learning to cooperate with arbitrarily assigned people”. Do you think that captures the distinction between Eliezer’s grade school anecdote and his later successes
It is certainly a significant factor. (Not the only one. Eliezer is also wiser as an adult than he was as a child.)
It is certainly a significant factor. (Not the only one. Eliezer is also wiser as an adult than he was as a child.)