4 papers
Participation Costs Narrow Democratic Cooperation
Mohammad Salahshour, Fjolle Shabani, Urs Fischbacher +1
Collective action often requires institutions that make cooperation individually worthwhile. We ask whether democratic allocation of public-good return can transform a repeated pub…
Private Noise and Public Error in Collective Information Acquisition
Mohammad Salahshour, Sumanth Bhargava, Kajal Kumari +4
Collective information acquisition requires groups to combine personal evidence with social information while remaining coupled to the external state. Communication noise can affec…
Towards Application-Specific Evaluation of Vision Models: Case Studies in Ecology and Biology
Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Otto Brookes, Urs Waldmann +11
Computer vision methods have demonstrated considerable potential to streamline ecological and biological workflows, with a growing number of datasets and models becoming available…
The Evolution of Altruistic Rationality Provides a Solution to Social Dilemmas via Rational Reciprocity
Mohammad Salahshour, Iain D. Couzin
Decades of scientific inquiry have sought to understand how evolution fosters cooperation, a concept seemingly at odds with the belief that evolution should produce rational, self-…