Comments on: Intrinsic Motivation and Free Software

By: eee_eff

eee_eff — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:49:22 +0000

Organized religion isn’t volunteer-based, it is based on the work of people who think they need to do things, or else their deity will punish them for it.

Silly. Nearly all Christian denominations teach that belief (faith) alone is enough for slvation. The rest (monastaries, universities, Cathedrals) were all built by volunteers. Buddhism, too does not teach that good works are required, but they a voluntary.

By: enigma_foundry

enigma_foundry — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:49:22 +0000

Organized religion isn’t volunteer-based, it is based on the work of people who think they need to do things, or else their deity will punish them for it.

Silly. Nearly all Christian denominations teach that belief (faith) alone is enough for slvation. The rest (monastaries, universities, Cathedrals) were all built by volunteers. Buddhism, too does not teach that good works are required, but they a voluntary.

By: Luis

Luis — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:33:10 +0000

Organized religion isn’t volunteer-based, it is based on the work of people who think they need to do things, or else their deity will punish them for it. If I could convince people that their deity will hate them unless they contributed to my software project, I’d be rolling in ‘volunteers’.

By: eee_eff

eee_eff — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:57:36 +0000

The paper also has some more detailed observations that come out of the experimental work; among them that voluntary cooperation is fragile

I’ll read the paper soon, but volunteer cooperation can’t be that fragile; just witness the persistence of organized religion, which has been around for quite a while.

The principle of reciprocity is almost always embodied in religious belief system, e.g., “do unto others…”

Signaling and filtering, of course, also come up in discussions re: evolutionary psychology.