points by jeffrallen 3 days ago | 0 comments
If your neighbor is a defector (a game theoretically optimal name for "an asshole") there's nothing to do but turn the other way and talk to your neighbor over the other fence.
Social exclusion, like putting a kid in timeout.
Maybe they will get the hint, maybe not.
The preconditions to the type of homogenious high trust environment that is required for this to scale is very fictional at the moment. But I would commend you for trying.