The Effect of Noise on the Emergence of Continuous Norms and its Evolutionary Dynamics

Anagnou, Stavros, Polani, Daniel, Salge, Christoph

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

The social world is replete with norms, an important aspect Going beyond continuous game theory, Aubert-Kato et al. of organising societies. Social norms reduce the degrees (2015) investigated the emergence of frugal and greedy of freedom in the actions of individuals, making them behaviours in an embodied version of a dilemma where more predictable and stabilising societies (FeldmanHall and agents varied in how long they exploited a food source Shenhav, 2019). Norms also enable unrelated agents to - the longer it exploits the food source, the more selfish manage shared resources (Mathew et al., 2013), thereby the agent is. Michaeli and Spiro (2015) showed how extending cooperation beyond genetic relatives (Richerson "liberal" and "conservative" punishment regimes can affect et al., 2016).