Life hacks shouldn’t be “waking up early” or “having organizational skills” and should be “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start.”

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Valerij Zisman's post on Empirical Research into the Psychology of Punishment is now live on our blog, Check it out at shorturl.at/jFS5B. Comments and questions welcome!

Some good ideas here incl more funding at the top of the list. Is it just me or does #3 sound like a very oblique suggestion of something like Ofstead ratings for different courts theguardian.com/law/2024/dec/1…

Ironic that humans have to unplug to recharge

Indiana Jones and the decision by university management to shut down the archaeology program bc it doesn't score well enough on their odd metric of impact/growth potential devised by some MBAs at PwC, even though the department is highest ranked on research quality in the country

Consider yourself teased

And here it is: Alex Sarch's post on whether actions can manifest traits or attitudes that are not actually present: …iminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/can… Enjoy!

Wrote a post about the diff btw punishment for individual culpability and punishment based on fair notice. Should the law ever pretend you have traits we know you lack just because you were warned this would happen? Is that fair? Is it retributive justice?…iminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/can…

Cleaning up a jar of sprinkles that your child dumped on the floor really makes you appreciate the number of atoms in the universe

So much good stuff in this special issue on the moral dimensions and implications of AI and automation: link.springer.com/journal/11098/…

Thought there were some helpful insights here. Strategies for parsing Trump’s noise ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-pay-a…

There have been lots of great experimental studies about how people attribute the mental states relevant to criminal responsibility (purpose, knowledge, recklessness, negligence) A thread of some interesting findings:

I hate being an economist. I'm no fun at parties

Worth checking out this paper on competitive authoritarianism. A helpful concept for understanding what's at stake in our current political moment. scholar.harvard.edu/levitsky/files…

People sleeping outside in sub-freezing temps? Np, here's 19 billion dollars for "Stargate"

This Friday, Adam Kolber argues: in our current non-ideal world, carceral punishment is better addressed through pure consequentialism (i.e. denying the value of deserved punishment) than standard retributivism (where moral desert justifies punishment): …iminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com