Evolution of Trust and Discrimination
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Why do people tend to trust some people but not the others? Why is there a discrimination between "us" and "others" even if the group distinction is arbitrary and trivial? Instead of digging into deep details, we think only uneven social interactions and biased information sharing could be enough to lead to the universal phenomenon, even if everybody is exactly the same.
As Tom said, let's begin with something simple.