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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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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A girl who ‘could go either way’ suggests someone that’s closer to the bisexual area of the spectrum than the straight, heteronormative end. Sexuality is a spectrum. Watching BTVS won’t make someone lesbian but it might make them happier and more accepting of their sexuality.
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