The agents' altruism was conditional: they were willing to incur a cost for a large benefit to other agents, but not for a small benefit; some considered such a sacrifice and chose against it.

“was not absolute,”

“These agents,”

“I think in a very human way,”

“sort of they would you know take the hit if it had a big benefit to the rest”

“of them but not if it had a small benefit and you see a number of agents in our report like consider it and decide not to and yeah”