Hannah Frey

So, yeah, boy, future lawyers and legal scholars out there, you've got your work cut out for you.

Yes.

And once we are able to collect lots and lots of data from your brain about what you're thinking and feeling, it's not going to clarify anything about ourselves.

If anything, it's going to make us go, oh, maybe I don't love that person like I thought I did.

There's going to be so much information that it's going to make everything more difficult, including human privacy rights.

Yeah.

Yeah, we'll go back there.

I mean, it was it's weird.

Like there's a whole body of work around people admitting that, like, you know what?

The trial by ordeal was kind of like very well suited for small communities.

There was almost like a an unspoken idea of like whether the person was guilty or not.

But no one wanted to be the one to proclaim that person's innocence or guilt.

So they would intentionally, like subconsciously rig up an ordeal that the person could pass or not, depending on what the community sentiment was.

And then when the person miraculously survived their ordeal that actually wasn't that hard to survive, they all went, phew, God solved it.

We didn't have to.

None of us had to come forward and be the one that proclaimed the sentence.

Right.

Let's go back to those days, I think.

As long as we're in small enough groups.

Okay, deal.