Supercooperators
by Martin A. Nowak, Roger Highfield · first published 2011
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"Everyone is familiar with Darwin's revolutionary idea about the survival of the fittest, and most people agree that it works, but Darwin's famous theory has one major chink. If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence. But as Harvard's celebrated evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak explains in this ground-breaking book, cooperation is central to the four-billion-ye
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…Dershowitz recently told a news reporter :) Regarding your degree of faith in the ability of humans to cooperate without ever defecting, let me refer you to this aptly entitled book: https://www.amazon.com/SuperCooperators-Altruism-Evolution-O... How do you think Harvard and MIT helped Mr. Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution on the child sex-trafficking charges for over thirty years? Type into your favorite search engine:…
on “MIT 24-Hour Challenge” ↗SuperCoorperators is an interesting book exploring these ideas http://www.amazon.com/Supercooperators-Mathematics-Evolution...
on “Game theorists offer a surprising insight into the evolution of fair play” ↗Harvard Professor Mark Newman also has similar shading dealings with Epstein. His own book, SuperCooperators [1], has nearly 3 whole pages dedicated to describing his experiences on Jeffery Epstein's Island, thanking him for all his support and basically sucking up to him by describing his (Epstein's) incredible…
on “Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs” ↗…makes our species more efficient in social cooperation, which to my mind is by a very large margin our best asset. https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human... https://www.amazon.com/SuperCooperators-Altruism-Evolution-O...
on “To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect” ↗