Athena Aktipis
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first heard Jan 2026
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And so when you, if you have a situation where
you know, what's being encoded is this sort of escalation and counter escalation, like on the timescale of the organism's lifetime or, you know, on the timescale of a pregnancy.
If those genes that code for that escalation are more likely to lead to, you know, a catastrophic situation where, you know, nobody's evolutionary interests are being served, then there's also going to be, you know, less selection, you know,
I actually have a game that I designed for like teaching about this in the classroom.
Like one individual plays like the parent and then you have three that are like the baby bird.
So it's like a mother bird and baby bird, just like, so that, you know, takes a little bit out of the realm of like, you know, being human.
And then the parent is like rolling a die every time period and has to choose how many points to give to each of the three offspring.
And the offspring then can decide to either kind of accept what the parent gives or they can use one unit of energy to compel the parent to give them two units of energy.
Mm-hmm.
one, but at a greater expense to you, right?
You've lost two.
So it's a very sort of simple way of getting this tension across.
And then I play it with my class where there are a dozen or so of these groups of
Of four.
And and then we talk about it afterwards.
Right.
And you see like, oh, yeah, we're like everyone was like signaling and shutting down like they in the end, you know, didn't have as high success as the groups that were actually, you know, winning.
being more cooperative and not protesting.
And, and it's also, it can be very funny sometimes, right?
Because you'll have like one of the, you know, one of the baby birds is like a total pain in the ass and all the other siblings are like, oh, come on, you're, you know, making it bad for all of us.
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