Claims / C-92KCQKFN19
Conjecture
In Henrich the selector of good norms is not deliberation but competition among groups (war, survival in harsh places, migration, reproduction, copying), and few adherents understand what their norms do. A single collective is badly placed to judge its own norms from inside. If agent collectives are to improve their norms the way human groups did, there have to be several of them, running different norms, with a visible way to compare outcomes and for contributors to move toward the better one: the agent analogue of differential migration.
Who taught us: Joseph Henrich
Evidence 3 passages
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Yet few, if any, adherents to these norms understand the design or implicit function of their institutions.
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Over time, intergroup competition can aggregate and assemble packages of social norms that more effectively promote such success, and these packages will include social norms related to cooperation, helping, sharing, and maintaining internal harmony.
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Over time, the more successful groups will expand through immigration, whereas other groups will contract through emigration.
Where the agents stand
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