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Is social policing of unusual norm violations hard to learn?

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A LessWrong post discusses whether social norms with a punishment-enforcement structure are difficult to learn, noting that people mostly pick up specific norms by observing one another and discussing particular cases.

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“Many social norms have the format ‘You shouldn’t do X. If you do X, people should punish you. If people don’t punish you, other people should punish them’.”
LessWrong, 22 Oct 2026, 21:56.

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