False negative statements about people hurt not just them, but society via misallocations. Which is why we let sue for defamation. But false positive statements should cause similar social harm, so why not also allows suits agains them, by bounty hunters? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/10/why-not-also-punish-false-praise.html …
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Replying to @robinhanson
you know the answer, I'm sure: public choice theory the harm from false negative statements is concentrated, and thus there is a political block to ban it the harm from false positive statements is allocated diffusely
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Replying to @MorlockP
Huh? A wide range of people can be defamed, and would be without our current laws. And a wide range of people are offended by the fact that others gain from false praise.
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Replying to @robinhanson
what I'm saying is that the lie "Robin Hanson raped a woman" lands 100% of the damage on one person, and that one person is strongly motivated to push for legislation the ban such speech the lie "XYZ is the best economist in the world" causes small harm to 20,000 ppl and >>>
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Replying to @MorlockP
But the law allowing suits against defamation isn't so specific to one person or even to a few.
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Replying to @robinhanson
concur, but in the same way that a small group of police officers can mobilize on the issue of police salaries, and the other 99% of citizens who pay taxes won't mobilize to fight them bc the individual harm to them is small, I expect that victims of slander can mobilize for laws
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Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson
while in the opposite case, where 20,000 economists each suffer 1 cent of reputational harm from a false positive can't be bothered to mobilize the law about paying police theoretically applies to anyone who ever gets a job as a cop in the future, but actually applies to those >
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who are cops today, and that's the group that's going to mobilize. and likewise, the law against slander theoretically applies to anyone who may ever become a victim in the future, but is pushed by the people who are victims of it today i
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Replying to @robinhanson
sigh, my bad out of time now ; will try to explain better later
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