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    Greedies are not viable without Modests in the population. — Carmelics
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    Greedies are not viable without Modests in the population.

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    • Greedies depend on having Modests around in order to be viable.
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    • 1.Greedies can sustain themselves through repeated exploitation of new entrants or naive agents who have not yet learned to defect.
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    • 2.Evolutionary game theory (Maynard Smith) shows populations can cycle through strategies without any single type requiring another for viability.
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    • 1.In sufficiently large or heterogeneous populations, Greedies can persist by exploiting coordination failures among non-Greedy agents, not Modests specifically.
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    • 2.Skyrms' 'Evolution of the Social Contract' demonstrates that local interaction structures can sustain greedy strategies independently of Modest presence.
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    Greedies depend on having Modests around in order to be viable.84%Conscience is necessary but not sufficient for right action.73%Modests by themselves do not inhibit the spread of Fairmen.73%A population imitating the most successful strategy converges on 'All ...72%

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    This depends on the proportions of strategies in the original population state. If the population begins with more than one Fairman, then there is some probability that Fairmen will encounter each other, and get the highest possible average payoff. Modests by themselves do not inhibit the spread of Fairmen; only Greedies do. But Greedies themselves depend on having Modests around in order to be viable. So the more Fairmen there are in the population relative to pairs of Greedies and Modests, the
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