1/ good thread to go off on a tangent (a very wide tangent): there is always a tension between adjusting things to tweak the marginal incentives, and adjusting things in a way that hammers people well out of the mainstream that's cryptic; let me expand >>> https://twitter.com/gaitanalyst/status/1387023943496765441 …
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5/ In the realm of sexuality, the guy who has been exclusively attracted to other dudes since 4th grade, and has zero interest at all in women is not a marginal bisexual, and Hollywood glamorization of gays has no impact on his decisions. He's gay. However, a 16yo girl who
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6/ could go either way, and has been RELENTLESS bombarded with elite prog propoganda for her entire life, right down to watching old Buffy DVDs with her mom, all of it saying GAY = COOL is a marginal case, and may be Lesbian For College, thus delaying family formation for yrs
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7/ You can construct other duals of marginal vs non-marginal consumer of various cultural items / movements / egregores. So, to revist the point in the head of this thread: how do we discourage X at the margin without stigmatizing / hurting people who are def gonna do X?
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8/ How do we encourage slightly healthier eating and exercise without calling the woman who's 100 lbs overweight despite trying her darndest at doomed yo-yo dieting a "lard ass" ? How do we encourage traditional family formation without calling people "faggots" ?
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9/ TLDR: I dunno, it's tricky, the two goals of humanity and incentives management are in tension.
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10/ ties obliquely into this tweet The goal is to be intolerant in principle but tolerant in practice.https://twitter.com/padrebrendon/status/1386877900981420035 …
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11/ A Modest Proposal: a Pigovian tax of "cool" alternate sexualities. You're gay? You get hiring preferences, and the media fawns over you? That's an extra $1,000 / yr to Uncle Sam. That'll keep the 23 yo girls in publishing on the (heh) straight and narrow. https://t.co/tdpnUcYOyk
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