@hbdchick @LexCorvus Oh, it helps plenty in encouraging their enemies (our friends) to give up on them and cut loose.
@Outsideness i don't at all. i totally agree with you that this adaptation is *not* working well in the new social environment. but...
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@Outsideness ...that *still* doesn't make it pathological. just makes it mismatched. as@declamare said, there's a fitness problem here... -
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@Outsideness ...a *new* fitness problem. it would be like relocating penguins to the sahara. their adaptations wouldn't be... -
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@Outsideness ...pathological. they'd just be no good in the middle of the desert. -
@hbdchick@Outsideness Altruism creates the desert. -
@PoisonAero yup.#IronyAlert (a strong, reciprocal altruism has in this case.) (@Outsideness see? now people are starting to understand!) -
@hbdchick@Outsideness that makes it pathological. But it isn't "altruism" anyway. It is a signaling tragedy of the commons. -
@PoisonAero no, that doesn't make it pathological. reciprocal altruism is an adaptation, not something cause by disease.@Outsideness - 5 more replies
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