Robert Wright: The logic of non-zero-sum progress
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http://www.ted.com Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness," a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological and cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world and the West, will lead to all of us losing the "game." Once we recognize that life is a non-zero-sum game, in which we all must cooperate to succeed, it will force us to see that moral progress -- a move toward empathy -- is our only hope.
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His opening is lousy.
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game here after watching Arrival.
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Morality is game theory applied, the interaction between zero-sum and non-zero-sum games within a system. Exploitation of non-renewable resources is a zero-sum game in the long run. The only "moral" change we need to make to our culture is to move towards renewable energy sources and things might have a chance to get back to normal. Looking at history, though, it's usually full out war and only after that do we get back to "business as usual".
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Watching this in november 2016 right after Trump got elected.....
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It's tough to empathize or negotiate for mutual benefit with people who lock their enemies in cages and dip them in acid then post said video on the internet. Neville Chamberlain declared "peace in our time" after a meeting in Munich. Didn't turn out that way because sometimes you can't negotiate, you have to fight. Life may be be a non-zero sum game some of the time - but it is definitely zero-sum when you deal with religious zealots.
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Zero sum and Nonzero sum are confusing. Gaining or loosing and Trading, respectively, would be clearer.
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He a stuggs.
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I love how he acts like he's doing us a favor by telling us this
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So well said.
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Absolute fool.
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Not a fan of Robert's
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2 decades ago, the same idea was conveyed by UG " The cooperation there springs from the total selfishness of mutual survival. It's like the cell in your body which also can survive only when it cooperates with the cell next to it. Otherwise it has no chance of survival. That's the only way we can live together. But that has to percolate to the level of, if you want to use that word, your `consciousness'. Only then you will live in this world peacefully"
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When you commit any action you have to know how it affects all other humans and other beings in the world before committing it. The western world is so complicated they have no idea how any of their actions are affecting anyone else. The ego moves them to further complicate their lives since they don't acknowledge that they have already surpassed the brain's capacity to understand any phenomenon holistically any more
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Talk about moral evolution in the west. The east was far more morally evolved. Actually, the west is only now starting to wake up morally and they are still very short-sighted in their actions. Meditate more, at least now you're on the right track
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its why relationships fail today at damn near a geometric rate. no cooperation in relationships. damn girl, cooperate with me... bend over. its that simple!
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@Farweasel I think the issue involved is disparities in power and knowledge. Also, disparities in hopelessness, despair, comfort, etc... When you have a poor, hungry, sick, and desperate person entering into a contract with a happy, fat, well-rested, complacent person, the later is almost certainly going to have more bargaining power and is going to end up with a better deal. They will use their position to do so. Some people find this situation distasteful, or even immoral.
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Humorous and wise: Reasons to be cheerful: • Growing lethality of Hatred • Death spiral of negativity Major round of moral progress is absolutely key....business class morality • He is after the root causes of their hatred of Americans : understanding them will force us to a higher moral basis • All the salvation the world needs is the intelligent pursuit of self-interest in a disciplined and careful way From zero sum to the win-win meme
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@earthfell In your first line u comment "evolutionist" argument - immediately we can see that any further comments u make will be hopelessly biased and prejudiced
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Everybody go read books from Ron Paul and Richard Dawkins. World peace coming soon
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Didnt Richard Dawkins make a video 30 years ago about this very same topic through the prisoner's dilemma?
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