I have struggled with (my own) pedantry since I was a young child. It's like a biological urge to socially mutilate oneself
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@GabrielDuquette@The_Lagrangian spite increases cost of defection/free riding even though it's costly to the spiteful
@GabrielDuquette @The_Lagrangian maybe pedantry increases cost of wrongness, altruistic punishment
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@literalbanana@GabrielDuquette so there's selection pressure for a genetic pedantry distribution? -
@The_Lagrangian@GabrielDuquette that's my wild hypothesis - I've seen good models of how cheap talk can evolve despite lying, witnesses key - 4 more replies
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