Thread by @ElonBachman

1\ Fascinating comments in the screenshots below

And especially provocative given how much of cooperation (or morality, if you want to call it that) requires thinking through iterative prisoners' dilemmas (see author's comments about "recursion")

https://twitter.com/LaocoonofTroy/status/1410205071397294085

2\ The exciting crimes we're used to in the US often come down to some subtle mistake

Oh, the micro fiber! Oh, he forgot to use a VPN!

But there's an entire understory of crime that is unimaginably stupid in the sense of being literally unimaginable to an average person

Eg...

3\ My father in law (not in the US) used to manage a furniture store whose floor staff were around 70 IQ

One of my favorite stories is about a cashier who was "stealing" using something similar to the Arrested Development banana stand scheme...

4\ When a customer paid cash, the cashier would pocket the cash, then use her *own* credit card to ring the sale

It wasn't some clever way of getting a cash advance, and she didn't plan to just not pay the account

She was genuinely mystified when caught!

5\ Related, but on the other end of the IQ spectrum, apparently Ted Bundy was surprised when caught to learn that numerous people had given eye witness accounts of him

To a man who viewed people as cattle, it seemed surprising that any of the cattle would have noticed him