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    It is not the case that Skyrms' 'Evolution of the Social Contract' demonstrates that local interaction structures can sustain greedy strategies independently of Modest presence.

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    • 1.Skyrms emphasizes contingency—results depend heavily on initial conditions and parameter values, not universal structural independence.
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    • 2.Local interaction structures that sustain greed typically require specific defection costs; this is conditional dependence, not independence.
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    • 3.Modest's minimal cooperation can emerge from local structures too; greedy persistence doesn't prove Modest irrelevance to stability mechanisms.
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    • 1.Skyrms' spatial models show greedy strategies exploit local clusters where defectors face repeated interaction costs with neighbors.
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    • 2.Modest strategies require global information flow; local structures naturally limit information, enabling greedy survival without Modest presence.
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    • 3.Empirical simulations demonstrate greedy strategies persist in lattice networks even when theoretically unstable in well-mixed populations.
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