In your opinion why are cheating scandals so awesome and exciting?
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Humans are extra good at thinking intelligently about cheating. Chance to exercise one of the few things we’re especially good at. It’s like how horses seem to like running.
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Just wrote about it. Paywalled, but here’s relevant but. studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-anthropi
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yeah isn’t there a theory that inter-human social competition provided the environment for intelligence to evolve so far behind other animals? outsmarting each other and catching cheaters is basically a secondary reward function
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Yep that’s one of the major theories. There’s a few others though so I wouldn’t say it’s a slam dunk monocausal explanation for big brains like some seem to think.
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