Josh Wolfe: High Modern Mobility Makes Ostracizing Cheaters Less Effective Than in Ancestral Times
Josh Wolfe · How to Invent and Invest In the Future with Josh Wolfe · Jun 2, 2022 · at 17:08
Josh Wolfe, founder and managing director of Lux Capital, discusses evolutionary psychology and how ancestral cognitive adaptations operate differently in modern society.
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“In our ancestral environment you know, when you go to like a Dunbar's number of, I don't know, a 150 people, you had a smaller group of people. And so it was more effective to punish a cheater. And they would be publicly ostracized, you know, from a small group today, you know, a cheater can go and just, you know, find a different tribe. The mobility is much greater. It's not as effective.”
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