![Paper Summary: Ethnocentrism is the winning social strategy [GIF - 763KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/ReSaOR.gif){kind=link}
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Human social strategies can be distilled into four fundamental types (Selfish, Traitorous, Humanitarian, Ethnocentric)
Game-theory simulation finds that the Ethnocentric strategy always wins eventually
The Humanitarian strategy can provide growth advantages early on, but is vulnerable to exploitation by Ethnocentrists (seem familiar?)
Authors do their best to sing praises of Humanitarianism, but can't argue with their own results.
- relevant studies are listed at the bottom of this article. Original simulation was from: Hammond, R. A., & Axelrod, R. (2006b). The evolution of ethnocentrism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50, 926-936 (Unfortunately this seems pay-walled wherever I've looked). summarized by the article.
Whites must re-learn Ethnocentrism, or we'll be wiped out by those who never forgot it.
- Human social strategies can be distilled into four fundamental types (Selfish, Traitorous, Humanitarian, Ethnocentric)
- Game-theory simulation finds that the Ethnocentric strategy always wins eventually
- The Humanitarian strategy can provide growth advantages early on, but is vulnerable to exploitation by Ethnocentrists (seem familiar?)
- Authors do their best to sing praises of Humanitarianism, but can't argue with their own results.
[Summary Article](https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/how-ethnocentrics-rule/) - relevant studies are listed at the bottom of this article. Original simulation was from: Hammond, R. A., & Axelrod, R. (2006b). The evolution of ethnocentrism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50, 926-936 (Unfortunately this seems pay-walled wherever I've looked).
[This is the paper](http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html) summarized by the article.
Whites must re-learn Ethnocentrism, or we'll be wiped out by those who never forgot it.
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