088: Discussion of Hypocralypse and the Future of Punishment

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In this week's discussion Ted and Jon talk about the new Robin Hanson article positing a future 'hypocralypse' in which useful hypocrisies become impossible to pull off because of technology. How will people and culture react? What might happen to laws and norms that are very influenced by symbolic concerns? Also they discuss the four main purposes of punishment and ways that various technical advances might better serve those purposes, and what that might look like.

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