100% or 0% gun ownership is better than 50% gun ownership. Fully deregulated or fully public health care/insurance is better than partially regulated. Full monog and full poly people report higher satisfaction than partially poly people. Is there a term for this phenomenon?
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Didn’t Scott Alexander write something about this kind of thing a couple of days ago. Not exactly but ‘attractor’ states. I’m wittering I know.
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Yeah I read this, it's not really attractor states but that's a good concept anyway
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It probably wasn't the best term; what I meant was there's a spectrum of how open your relationship can be; ppl with very closed or very open relationships have a good time, while ppl with partially open relationships have a worse time
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I'm unfamiliar with this. Could you explain how fully deregulated health care/insurance is better than partially regulated?
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the idea is that regulations often contribute heavily to medical costs and snuff out competition; for example it costs *insane* amounts to get a medicine approved.
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i did a really big survey a few years ago, I've been meaning to do a full writeup, but here's some of the old graphs I have. I need to update it with a non-distorted y axis
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"Choose either sidewalk, but don't walk in the middle of the road"? More a saying than a term, but stil...
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