Coercion is an adaptation to scarcity; trust is an adaptation to abundance — LessWrong
There’s a sense in which I’m postulating a trillion dollar bill lying on the ground. If the skills I’ve talked about so far in this sequence would le…
x Coercion is an adaptation to scarcity; trust is an adaptation to abundance — LessWrong Replacing fear Emotions Motivations Trust and Reputation Rationality Frontpage 91 Coercion is an adaptation to scarcity; trust is an adaptation to abundance by Richard_Ngo 23rd May 2023 5 min read 11 91 There’s a sense in which I’m postulating a trillion dollar bill lying on the ground. If the skills I’ve talked about so far in this sequence would lead to so much more flourishing, why haven’t they become far more common? I’ve already given a partial answer: that our evolutionary environment was much more d
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