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A cooperative replacement system among states is unsustainable because participants must negotiate who benefits, while empire can impose the answer by power.
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Cooperation
A cooperative replacement system among states is unsustainable because participants must negotiate who benefits, while empire can impose the answer by power.
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In the first civilizational game, cooperation creates a dynamic religion that motivates energy, work, shared prosperity, and gives poets and priests elite status.
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He says social players fear ostracism or exile from the group, so they try to beat others while also avoiding behavior that gets them thrown out of the game.
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If each player individually tries to maximize the dating game, the top male and later imitators can end up worse off; cooperation is the route to stable pairings.
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Women are described as better politicians because Jiang says they cooperate more, have more emotional intelligence, and use sex and gossip as control mechanisms.
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Jiang says Ice Age humans survived not because someone planned every task but because they intuitively knew how to cooperate around food, housing, clothing, and shelter.
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Creativity is released through cooperation, empathy, and wanting not to let others down, rather than through isolated ambition.
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Jiang defines evolution for the class as open, cooperative competition: no central authority or hegemon, many groups competing to survive, but still communicating, trading, and maintaining friendly relations.
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"So you're talking about a country like Japan and Germany as you mentioned before, or America, like they fall into a group that, well,..."
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"Because ultimately you have to resolve the issue of benefit. Okay. Okay. Like we have to negotiate who benefits. Okay. It doesn't make sense...."
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"...at least have food to eat okay therefore the game is cooperation and the mechanism cooperation actually will allow you to create a dynamic..."
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"That's a game they're playing. All right? But they have colleagues. You have colleagues. And the game you're trying to play there is to..."
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"Australization. Okay? Or basically just exile. Where you are no longer part of the group. They kick you out as a player. Okay? That's..."
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"And according to evolutionary psychology, all five of these females should try to procreate with number five, okay? But we know you can't do..."
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"There's not much difference between four and five. So I'll just go. I'll marry this guy, right? So number four is gone. And number..."
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"So the only way out of this is if they cooperate, okay? And the best way to cooperate is basically five is like, you..."
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"Again, women are just better politicians than men because women are more willing to cooperate. Women have more emotional intelligence. And women can use..."
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"very creative we were very we resourceful all right so we know a lot about the ice age because as you can imagine during..."
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"will uh keep on emphasizing for the rest of for the rest of semester is they just knew it okay so let's do a..."
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"like telepathy and that's how we are if you put humans in a group they would know instantly how to work together and they..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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