Conversation

Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
Tickled by
@ESYudkowsky
's notion of "cheerful price", as in ~"At what price would you happily X without expending any social capital, feeling instinctively 'yay' about it, without any subtle feeling of imposition?"
lesswrong.com
Your Cheerful Price - LessWrong
There's a concept I draw on often in social interactions. I've been calling it the "happy price", but that is originally terminology by Michael Ellsberg with subtly different implications. So I now f…
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
I don't quite feel comfortable with it in a casual context as proposed ("do my laundry"): I think the "conversion rate" between friendship capital and dollars is difficult to pinpoint and can subtly shift into resentment in hindsight. But I like it for professional requests!
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Amy Hoy
@amyhoy
oh by “shown” i mean studies. it turns an intrinsic motivation (caring, reciprocity) to an extrinsic one. there are quite a few studies, i remember some cited in Stumbling on Happiness and Punished by Rewards iirc (gluten brain)
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