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Altruism Research Progress Overview

Checkpoint on winter quarter 2008 research progress by Prof. Amit Sahai, Alexander Liu, and Eric Chang. Experimental topics cover genetic vs cultural basis for altruism, single-variable controlled altruism, and more.

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Altruism Research Progress Overview

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  1. Checkpoint PowerPoint Winter Quarter 2008 COM SCI 194 Honors Research Professor Amit Sahai Alexander Liu and Eric Chang

  2. Progress Overview • Expanded coding on our simulation framework • With some extensions it is sufficient for our current needs • Finished running our initial sets of experiments • These results are leading us to branch off into new directions

  3. Experimental Topics • Single variable-controlled altruism vs. altruism that is influenced by two variables- one governing potential and one expression • The influence of locality- do altruists have a better chance when they interact with each other more than they do with strangers? What if they were allowed to horde? • Genetic vs. cultural basis for altruism- the former is strictly inherited, the latter could be influenced and changed • One hypothesis is that altruism has its roots in behavior between parents and children- being nice to your kids does not require reciprocation to have immediate benefits for the survival of your genes

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  5. What’s next? • Many of our results indicate potential for further investigations in depth • Development of existing experiments and creation of related new ones will help us do so • We want to place our focus on repeated phenomena; it is our hope that these can provide glimpses into the fundamental principles underlying altruism

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