Shamelessness as a Strategy
31st December 2020
The shameless strategy feels counterintuitive, because our first instinct is to want to punish that sort of behavior. And historically, those sanctions have been effective. Punishing outlandish behavior is an important aspect of cooperative governance: it preserves social order by ensuring that we all play by the same rules.
Today, it seems like punishing shamelessness only increases social rewards to the transgressor. What’s changed?