# kaal:claim:3782220-032

**Claim.** The same ability to learn from others' behavior that unleashes the efficiency of cooperation also gives people untold power to trick others, imagining how to manipulate them and corrupt the organization for individual benefit at the group's expense.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- organizations composed of mind-modeling agents

**Source quote.**

> This ability to learn from others' behaviors gives us enormous capacity to un- leash the efficiency of cooperation. But it also gives us untold power to trick other

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Integrating polar values, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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**Failure mode.** manipulation as the shadow of cooperation  (family: fraud-and-misconduct)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** manipulation, corruption, theory-of-mind, cooperation, insider-threat

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