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SamPatt04/27/20251 replyview on HN

Ban lying in politics?

What would be left?


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fennecbutt04/27/2025

Apathetic voters who'll still vote for a terrible party just because they hate the same people the politicians say they do?

MIB put it so succinctly, large groups of humans are exceedingly dumb. It's almost like our individual intelligence drops, perhaps we evolved those effects from tribalism so that organising larger groups was more effective. And perhaps that effect is broken now that we organise in much larger groups than we ever evolved for.

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