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Working for an Internet start-up sounds like it should be a win-win situation. Succeed, and rake in cash at a steady job; fail, and at least gain experience while having fun. So why don't more Harvard students take the plunge...
...games, are good at playing them. Vampire bats returning from a successful blood-sucking expedition share the proceeds with bat buddies that had a tougher night on the parasitism front. Since these magnanimous bats will someday be needy themselves, this reciprocal altruism is a win-win game. Natural selection favored animals good at win-win gamesmanship...
...other animal plays non-zero-sum games as tirelessly as we do. Much of your emotional life is natural selection's way of getting you to play. Gratitude for favors rendered and guilt over neglecting a friend help you start or sustain potentially win-win games...
Relations among nations have long been getting more non-zero-sum. The fates of national economies are more and more shared--win-win or lose-lose. And nuclear weapons have made war a highly non-zero-sum game, a lose-lose game that you win by not playing...
...zero-sumness is a kind of potential, a potential for mutually bad outcomes or mutually good outcomes. And it is self-regenerating. The more of it you turn into win-win outcomes, the more new games are created. We are on the cusp of this planet's 4 billion-year-old expansion of non-zero-sumness. We decide whether it will keep growing and how smoothly it will grow. Kind of makes us seem important, doesn...