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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: AI failures
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Date: 3 Jun 92 15:40:07 GMT
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You criticize "pop" sociobiology as dragging down the rest of the field,
but my experience is that the Marxists are as concerned with the serious
work as they are with the popularizers. I did some work in the early 80s
on the evolution of the population strategy for playing the non-zero-sum
game with information collection. I did this work to understand human
risk-taking and -sharing behavior better, and discovered that _any_
sociobiological work addressing human behavior attracted suppressive fire
from the Marxists.


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Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com


