The Individual Is More an Illusion Than It Is Real

i often say that the individual is more an illusion than it is real. Evolution might ultimately care about whether or not you are successful. But your focus on a hundred generations from now is unlikely to have any useful impact whatsoever. So we have, we have been delivered a kind of temporal miopia in order to keep us focused on that which could be productive for an ancestor. And so how do we re orient game theory outside of those multipolar traps? I would say as one of our underlying questions that when the biggest harm we could cause was mediated by stone tools or bronze tools or iron tools,. We didn't have to cause it immediately, because the extent of harm was limited in scope