Authenticity is not a skill that we can manipulate for our own selfish ends.

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Unless, that is, everyone around you knows that to offer you a drink would be not just a bad idea but a hugely selfish and dangerous one.

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My reasons are not so much civic as dramatic -- that is, selfish.

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This is not the first work to find mathematical evidence that there are conditions under which cooperative behavior drives out selfish behavior.

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