JBP X Robert Sapolsky | Today at 5pm EST

if you're going to have interaction with

someone you stab them in the back or do

you cooperate or and your starting point

is you're never going to see this person

again and they have no means of telling

anyone else on Earth if you were a jerk

or whatever the only real politic thing

that anyone could ever do is don't

cooperates to have them in the back if

you have only one round that you're

going to interact with and then you get

this horrible regressive thing that if

you're going to interact with them for

two rounds what's the logical thing to

do on the second round stab them in the

back so you've already defaulted into no

that the second round is going to be

non-cooperation so what do you do in the

first round you already know the second

round is a given so you might as well

stab them in the back on the first one

and if there's three rounds you go

backwards and at every one of those

points if you're hyper rational no

matter how many rounds ahead of you

there are if you know how many there are

going to be the only like uber spocky

and logical thing to do is to never ever

cooperate where the Breakthrough comes

in is when you don't know how many

rounds there are in the future