Malevolent Cooperation: the Case of ‘Weaponized Autism’

Regarding social issues that involve cooperation, oftentimes the discussion is focused on how to improve cooperation. But what about the cases in which it is desirable to prevent cooperation that serves to achieve some malevolent…

Curb Your Altruism

On the face of it, it seems like there cannot be too much altruism in a cooperative enterprise, since altruism is generally considered to be a facilitator of cooperation. But an article I have recently stumbled upon says too much altruism can indeed handicap cooperation — with empirical data to…

Adaptive Cooperation: the King and the Majesty

Cooperation among the Asymmetrically Competent

Endurance and Assurance

In the last 7–8 years or so, I cannot remember how many times I saw someone on social media, upon an outrageous development purported by the sovereign political party (which is opposed by roughly half of the nation), saying that this is the worst it can get, that this is the ground…

Some Source Required for Cooperation

Among the ideas concerning artificial intelligence cooperation I have come across is that machines can show their source codes to each other to facilitate mutual cooperation in games like Prisoner’s Dilemma (for instance, see [1]). I contend that an analogous…