the reason i dont accept "virtue signaling" as a real thing is that theres no particular way to distinguish a false signal of virtue from simply being virtuous. when i see people attack "virtue signaling" it is roughly universally meaning "your values are different from mine"
cool. good luck with the whole project of building an incentive structure for not being trash that doesn't reward a sociopath cynically gaming the incentives better than it ever rewards actually not being trash
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I don't imagine it's a thing I can pull of on my own, or easily, or without exploits. It's generally easier to penalize being shit, but the conceptual difference between "rewarding being good" and "materially punishing being shit" isn't that vast a gulf.
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By which I mean, materially disincentivising being awful is a form of materially incentivizing virtue, and nondiscrimination laws, for example, don't generally cause collateral damage.
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that isn't entirely true because you do see people fighting over the amount of time and energy they spend volunteering or protesting or what-have-you, which is virtue signal authentication, but close