Yes, it’s a wonder these idiotic apes somehow created the modern world... We are wired to live in groups of a couple hundred individuals, at most. We can “defa

Yes, it’s a wonder these idiotic apes somehow created the modern world... We are wired to live in groups of a couple hundred individuals, at most. We can “default to truth” in that setting because all of our interactions are repeated indefinitely over time, and the stable solution to such an iterated prisoners dilemma is to be honest because cheating will be swiftly punished. Mass media, and especially the Internet, breaks all of our social brain circuitry, and that is not a trivial problem to address.