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Does this mean that individual complexity is a natural enemy of group cohesiveness? Or is individual 'selfishness' more a product of evolutionary background.

On our planet we don't have ant colony dynamics at the physical scale of high intelligence (that I know of), but there are very physical limitations to things like food sources.

Virtual simulations don't have the same limitations, so the priors may be quite different.

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Taking the "best" course of action from your own point of view could not be so good from a more broad perspective. We might have evolved some small group collaboration approaches that in the long run plays better, but in large groups that doesn't go that well. And for AIs trying to optimize something without some big picture vision, things may go wrong faster.

They might, but if youre simulating a group you can count group survival as part of the selection criteria.

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