Michael Morris

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There would be a serious incentive problem. if the hunters genuinely felt insulted. It's a status leveling thing, right? You don't want the hunter to get too big a head because we all have to live together.

There would be a serious incentive problem. if the hunters genuinely felt insulted. It's a status leveling thing, right? You don't want the hunter to get too big a head because we all have to live together.

There would be a serious incentive problem. if the hunters genuinely felt insulted. It's a status leveling thing, right? You don't want the hunter to get too big a head because we all have to live together.

Yeah, I think that what's really interesting about it is that Pro-social behavior is socially rewarded, right? We can see in this group, it's rewarded through social opportunities. In other groups that are hunter-gatherer groups, like the Aceh, they distribute food in a completely socialist way, but the productive hunters get better medical care.

Yeah, I think that what's really interesting about it is that Pro-social behavior is socially rewarded, right? We can see in this group, it's rewarded through social opportunities. In other groups that are hunter-gatherer groups, like the Aceh, they distribute food in a completely socialist way, but the productive hunters get better medical care.

Yeah, I think that what's really interesting about it is that Pro-social behavior is socially rewarded, right? We can see in this group, it's rewarded through social opportunities. In other groups that are hunter-gatherer groups, like the Aceh, they distribute food in a completely socialist way, but the productive hunters get better medical care.

Like, you know, if they're injured, the chief sees to it that they get like the medicine.

Like, you know, if they're injured, the chief sees to it that they get like the medicine.

Like, you know, if they're injured, the chief sees to it that they get like the medicine.

Exactly, right? I mean, it's not surprising. But what's interesting is that evolution – didn't just wire us to be calculating and to be revenue maximizing, even though my economist colleagues tend to think that the world works that way.

Exactly, right? I mean, it's not surprising. But what's interesting is that evolution – didn't just wire us to be calculating and to be revenue maximizing, even though my economist colleagues tend to think that the world works that way.

Exactly, right? I mean, it's not surprising. But what's interesting is that evolution – didn't just wire us to be calculating and to be revenue maximizing, even though my economist colleagues tend to think that the world works that way.

It also wired us to care about esteem as an end in itself, the standing in which we are held and the internal esteem that we feel when we know that we've done the right thing. And I think one of the reasons that we became wired with that sort of pride shame system is because social rewards tend to come probabilistically and with considerable delay.

It also wired us to care about esteem as an end in itself, the standing in which we are held and the internal esteem that we feel when we know that we've done the right thing. And I think one of the reasons that we became wired with that sort of pride shame system is because social rewards tend to come probabilistically and with considerable delay.

It also wired us to care about esteem as an end in itself, the standing in which we are held and the internal esteem that we feel when we know that we've done the right thing. And I think one of the reasons that we became wired with that sort of pride shame system is because social rewards tend to come probabilistically and with considerable delay.

So if I was a person who was only going to be pro-social, like I was only going to try to hunt hard if I was sure that there was a reward waiting for me, I wouldn't do it very often. But if I'm wired that I want the feeling, I want the feeling of being celebrated and the feeling of knowing I'm the contributor, then I probably will get more rewards because I'll do the pro-social thing more often.

So if I was a person who was only going to be pro-social, like I was only going to try to hunt hard if I was sure that there was a reward waiting for me, I wouldn't do it very often. But if I'm wired that I want the feeling, I want the feeling of being celebrated and the feeling of knowing I'm the contributor, then I probably will get more rewards because I'll do the pro-social thing more often.