Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

Source date (UTC): 2023-08-07 15:32:47 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1688573914199265280

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Quite the opposite. Since cooperation is always disproportionately productive (Beneficial), and because man is a superpredator (continuous risk), avoiding provocation and retaliation, and investing in opportunities for cooperation, is the superior strategy for both the individual and group.
There is a reason for the singular direction of all human evolution: neoteny suppresses impulse and aggression in exchange for patience and agency, because that progress facilitates cooperation and the returns on cooperation are disproportionately valuable – a fact that is non-obvoius perhaps given that a superpredator such as man, is so precisely because he cooperates and divides labor between persistance hunting and food preparation. And because there is no end to the benefit of scaling that division of labor.

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