I once went to a philosophy talk by Andrew Flescher on sociopaths; one of the interesting factoids that stuck with me was the high rate of sociopaths getting imprisoned and the observation that apparently many of them knew they were doing something wrong but simply thought they could get away with it.
To me, these and others indicated that sociopaths suffer from a combination of overconfidence and maybe a very high discount rate. Neither seem very rational.
I once went to a philosophy talk by Andrew Flescher on sociopaths; one of the interesting factoids that stuck with me was the high rate of sociopaths getting imprisoned and the observation that apparently many of them knew they were doing something wrong but simply thought they could get away with it.
To me, these and others indicated that sociopaths suffer from a combination of overconfidence and maybe a very high discount rate. Neither seem very rational.