Yet states/empires are typically both. Either: 1. conglomerations of different ethnicities, ruled by more ethnically homogenous dynasty/ruling elite (e.g. Persia) 2. an heterogenous elite that rules a more ethnically homogenous majority (e.g. post-Pharaonic Egypt). @Peter_Turchin
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I recently started reading the Turchin stuff. Very interesting.
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Multi-level cultural group selection as the basis of the evolution of cooperation. States wouldn't have evolved if people of different ethnicities didn't cooperate. So any finding that ethnocentrism is 'dominant' has to be wrong. They are all around us.
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Would like to see them extend the model to include mixing /conversion. Most real world ethnocentric strategies don't convert outsiders, but humanitarian strategies do
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did you just wake up from a coma?
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Interesting ... I actually did write a simulator engine for this kind of iterated games as a computer science assignment. However... it doesn't really take into account in the success-criteria what the well-being consequences of a high-defection world is.
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