“Entities can also share the same fitness without being part of a single body. The fitness of worker bees, for instance, is entirely tied with the reproductive success of the queen. The workers cannot reproduce on their own, and their only chance of passing on their genes is through the queen’s offspring. As a result, **worker bees have no incentive to deceive one another, and this is why a bee can trust what another bee signals without having to double-check**—even if the bee suggests there are flowers in the middle of a lake.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[social-proof]], [[in-group-out-group-bias]], [[authority-bias]], [[false-consensus-effect]], [[groupthink]], [[halo-effect]], [[liking-bias]], [[mimetic-theory]], [[not-invented-here-syndrome]], [[incentives]], [[trust]], **Source** -- [[260102102051 - B - Not Born Yesterday]]