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▲ howunfortunate 3 hours ago

The effect of getting caught is only half the story there; IQ is more generally correlated with all manner of "low time preference" type decision making.

▲jojobas 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There's plenty of high-time-preference crimes.

▲howunfortunate 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not really. Almost definitionally (because of the way we've built society over time, not by semantics or chance) crimes are a "shortcut" compared to the honest alternative.