Socializing with strangers is a prisoner's dilemma 
or: Why the globally optimal strategy is to always assume strangers will like you
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Another reason: With most strangers, the cost of yeeting them out of your life is minimal for both of you, so you might as well pursue a strategy that optimises for the case where you decide to keep 'em and not worry too much about the case where you don't.
