Moreover, even in the face of strong selection pressure, systems don’t seem to converge on similar equilibria in general.
I like this thought but to push back a bit—nearly every species we know of is incredibly selfish or at best only cares about their very close relatives. Sure, crabs are way different than lions but OP is describing a much lower dimension, which seems more likely to generalize regardless of context.
If you asked me to predict what (animal) species live in the rainforest just by showing me a picture of the rainforest I wouldn’t have a chance. If you asked me if the species in the rainforest would be selfish or not that would be significantly easier. For one, it’s easier to predict one dimension than all the dimensions, and second, some dimensions we should expect to be much less elastic to the set of possible inputs.
I like this thought but to push back a bit—nearly every species we know of is incredibly selfish or at best only cares about their very close relatives. Sure, crabs are way different than lions but OP is describing a much lower dimension, which seems more likely to generalize regardless of context.
If you asked me to predict what (animal) species live in the rainforest just by showing me a picture of the rainforest I wouldn’t have a chance. If you asked me if the species in the rainforest would be selfish or not that would be significantly easier. For one, it’s easier to predict one dimension than all the dimensions, and second, some dimensions we should expect to be much less elastic to the set of possible inputs.