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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Jul 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

      1/ good essay, but a buried line in it: > I conclude from all this that we have a strong and increasing DIY norm. I agree, but I'm curious why. There's something in human nature that insists on conservation of DIY, likely as an expression of agency (IMO).https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1413234799523868682 …

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      Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
      Our DIY norm seems to discourage us from using matchmakers, but pay-for-results seems quite feasible for them, a possibility well worth exploring. https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/07/diy-vs-pfr-matchmaking.html …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Jul 2021

      2/ We are wired so that agency is important to us. More and more in my circles are expressing their desire to not be an "urban bugman". That's one subculture's take on agency, but in other corners it takes the form of "I do my own laundry, I'm not SPOILED and sending it out".

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Jul 2021

      3/ I'd imagine that this comes down to tendencies we've evolved based on tribal politics. In the modern world, it might be great to trade labor for money and money for restaurant meals / cleaning services, but in a tribal society, to not DO is to be WORTHLESS.

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    4. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 8 Jul 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP

      But we get advice all the time in a great many ways, and that doesn't make us lazy. To me a person getting advice seems just as much an "agent" as one who doesn't.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Jul 2021
      Replying to @robinhanson

      I am more responding to this sentence > But we chose to forgo the huge productivity gains often realized in military, school, and orphanage dorms, and instead we each did our own food, clothes, home decorations, etc. than to the topic of advice that your post centers on.

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    6. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 8 Jul 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP

      I don't think anyone sees soldiers as lazy for not cooking their own meals.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Jul 2021
      Replying to @robinhanson

      The sentence in question basically asked "why do soldiers not have a problem with outsourcing their meal production, but middle class people do?" my answer is conservation of agency. The soldier is doing high status work and can outsource meal production without loss of agency>

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Jul 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson

      the insurance adjuster working in a cube all day, processing TPS forms, is doing something that does not register as having status or agency, and thus jealously guards a task that provides some measure of agency / status / skill signalling. I suggest that he may have a desire >

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 8 Jul 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson

          to do this based on ancient norms of "I have to demonstrate that I can do SOMETHING"

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        3. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 8 Jul 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Are there poll questions you think might help test your theory?

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