Human Behavior Study Lessons from Baboons

Chapter 1: Introduction to Game Theory
Listening to Sapolsky, albeit with the participation of the well-known Canadian psychotherapist Peterson.
And so:
1/ Game theory
A small rat doesn't invite a bigger one unless it lets the smaller one win 30%.
You are invited to cooperate
And then they stab you in the back
1/ Washington's history / treachery/
2/ Then Tesla
3/ Recent invitation to resell crypto
"If you are open to cooperation, simple and straightforward, you lose the first battles with idiots, but you win in wars. Those who know how to cooperate find each other" - in my opinion, these are comforting words from the psychotherapist.
Chapter 2: Personal Experience
Yes, when I was crushed by the Washington gentlemen along with American television and, of course, the newly minted Russian elite, how these Russian cultural figures with black ties dressed up, when I was subjected to this persecution by special services, seasoned with power and even the Catholic Inquisition.
Chapter 3: Dealing with Difficulties
This lasted for years, not from minute to minute, but from second to second, with the stubbornness of a fool. At first, I just suffocated, and there was a sharp pain in my chest as if a knife was being thrust into me. It was then that Russian television suddenly turned on for me, and a concert of Russian cultural figures with black ties, as if confirming my sentence, and Pugacheva's daughter, as if drawing a line to my nightmare, sings a song about a butterfly and an admiral, praising the resilient admiral and applauding the worthless butterfly, and so on, the whole performance. The feeling that you have suffered a powerful accident, you walk through the wild taiga freezing, and it seems that people are a light and the door opens, and they slam the door in front of your nose and laugh and even rejoice at your demise. But still, I survived all this betrayal from all sides. I stopped suffocating, although for almost two months I couldn't get out of bed due to the acute chest pain, but then they started to stop the harassment at ten o'clock in the evening, and at night, I could finally catch my breath and recover a bit.
Chapter 4: Adapting to Complex Conditions
But the sharp pain in the heart area was constant. However, after I visited an American psychiatric hospital, where the atmosphere was worse than in prison, I didn't seek medical help. Still, I found the strength within myself and started a T-shirt business. It's hard to communicate and talk when you have such pain as if a knife is thrust into your chest, but gradually, I started to talk and live a double life, not telling anyone about what I had gone through, still going through, and feeling. I became like an actor taking on a new role and entered it, and I did everything automatically, listened to my employees' complaints and expressed sympathy, and so on.
Chapter 5: Personal Reflection and Conclusion
One of my favorite works in my youth, back in school, was Hemingway's novel, "A Moveable Feast." Simple, straightforward, open to cooperation - these are exactly my qualities. But I lost both battles and wars. They cooperate with the strong. "Weakness has no companions." These are the words of Emma Dickinson, who became my favorite poet, not only American but in general, aside from Shakespeare's sonnets, Byron, some of Karamzin's, and Mayakovsky.
Part 6: Critique of Psychopathy and Power
Psychopaths? - People make psychopaths. But you scientists keep silent about those who make us psychopaths. More often, psychopaths are in power. Hitler was a pronounced psychopath, and everyone adored him. And what a strong psyche you had to have to work in concentration camps, to mass-murder people in gas chambers, and then burn those half-alive in ovens. And to work there as an operator, you just had to press buttons and look through a peephole, watching them there. By the way, they didn't show any of those operators at the Nuremberg Trials. They didn't take a single interview about how these people - not psychopaths, with iron psyche, worked, how they developed such a psyche that had no sympathy for the victims.
Chapter 7: Peterson's View on Sacrifice
Peterson, as a psychologist, wants to blur the scary word "sacrifice." He compares it to work, that when you work, you often do what you don't want to do, but what you need to do to improve your future. The Nazis followed this principle: they had to exterminate Jewish and Slavic children to create a perfect, ideal society. Therefore, the work of gassing and burning in the ovens was a noble deed for a bright future. Peterson goes on to explain that if you do the work, God rewards you, and if you refuse and avoid it, you are punished. 


Chapter 8: Comparing Sapolsky with Animal Behavior
Again, the word goes to Sapolsky, who provides an example of how biology influences psychology. Sapolsky's story goes like this: Imagine an island where individuals of a certain species are isolated from the mainland, and as a result, they mate with each other, leading to a situation where they all become relatives, and there is no competition, only cooperation. But then the connection to the mainland is restored, and this tribe of closely related individuals relocates to the mainland, where it will dominate over the others. It's somewhat similar to what Hitler mentioned in 'Mein Kampf,' where he accused Jews of being a state within a state because they were all closely related and united, which made them dominant. Therefore, as soon as he came to power, he immediately revoked the citizenship of Jews and then proceeded with their extermination.
Chapter 9: Critique of Comparing with Animal Behavior
Next, Sapolsky describes how he and his wife observed a tribe of baboons for a long time, and some of them were the most active and aggressive. As a result, they went to neighboring garbage dumps, where there was another tribe, and they had to fight with the members of that tribe for food. However, they ended up contracting tuberculosis and went extinct. After the disappearance of the most aggressive members, the tribe became much calmer, and the level of aggression decreased.
Chapter 10: Questions about Baboons and Environmental Change
The idea here, as stated by Sapolsky, is to use this example from the animal world as a lesson to reduce aggression in human society. Professor Sapolsky constantly strives to compare humans to animals, pointing out the similarity of our chromosomes with primates. He disagrees with the idea that aggression in animals is also driven by economic conditions. Active baboons became aggressive, possibly due to hunger, which prompted them to go to neighboring garbage dumps in search of food. After the tuberculosis infection and the death of part of the tribe, aggression decreased because there was more food, and the competition for food that stimulated aggression when it was scarce stopped.
The professor suggests using this example to solve human problems. From his statement, it follows that perhaps it is necessary to infect a portion of humanity suffering from aggression with a strong infection to reduce the level of aggression. This could even lead to the cessation of the arms race, as the new generation, lacking aggressive tendencies, would not join the military. Additionally, financiers investing in the military-industrial complex would disappear, and with them, the threats of war, as human resources would be directed towards producing goods instead of weapons.
However, it's important to remember that human society is different from animals, and democracy and freedom of speech allow us to change the world and make improvements. While comparing humans to animals is always interesting, it's crucial to remember that humans have created the noosphere, which influences their biology, and the environment also affects evolution and changes in human society. All of this makes the comparison with baboons and animals complex and incomplete, as humans possess unique characteristics and circumstances.