WiM039 - The Geoffrey Miller Series | Episode 2 | Sexual Selection for Moral Virtues
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Game Theory All the Way Downs?
In your book, you said you could almost condense allf courtship down to that moral obstacle course. Ah, not just moral competence, but that's settling one huge aspect of it. And so with signalling, i don't know if we touch on this last time, it is like, very, it seems clear that costly signalling is a form of proof of work. So again, a proof of work that's hard to fake, but cheap to verify, is a conducive to an honest signal. Sos this game theory all the way downs? Oh, absolutely ye. I've been sort of selecting readings for this new course i'm teaching on a psychology of decision making. And
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