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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

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      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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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      2/ let us posit that society overly encourages something (consumption of fast food, expressions of bisexuality, emoting, college degrees, whatever) we might wish to tweak incentives so as to get less of such a thing

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      3/ the marginal case, a term from economics, refers to someone who is right at the very edge of the decision point and really could have gone either way, but because of price / incentives, they were just BARELY persuaded to do it Like, if you think a pizza is worth $10 >

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      4/ ...and you find a coupon to get a pizza for $9.95, you'll do it. But without the coupon, at the full $11 price, you won't. You're the marginal consumer. A guy who has been lusting after a pizza all week and has $500 in his wallet is getting a pizza, coupon or not.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

      9/ TLDR: I dunno, it's tricky, the two goals of humanity and incentives management are in tension.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Fr. Brendon Laroche

          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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          Fr. Brendon Laroche @padrebrendon
          “It has been said: ‘The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle, because they do not believe, and intolerant in practice because they do not love…’”
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Apr 2021

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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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