Hypothesis: most information hazards are hazards of common knowledge rather than individual sincere belief
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sigh nobody will fight me
really is there any pathogen where there's no detriment to individuals but if a large % of the population has it there's major harm?
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Not a pathogen, but psychopathy. A society of heartless monsters won't work but one with an occasional disguised monster...
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ah nice!
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pick any instance of the tragedy of the commons
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yeah it's all social high-level human stuff, nothing biological and meaty
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I think toxoplasma gondii doesn't harm individual fitness much but might reach a tipping point if a whole population had it.
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An inverted example: I think most polio infections used to be asymptomatic & harm occurred when the microbe became scarcer.
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isn't that detrimental to individual fitness in a big way?
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sickle cell anemia gene. inherit from one parent -> partial malaria resistance; but high % in pop -> both parents -> death.
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deflect-in-the-prisoner's-dillemma-itis
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