in the futility of discussing and developing policy in contexts were the subject matter is mostly used for signaling virtue.
Feeling for @robinhanson right now.
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I think this is a pretty easy to line to draw, given the enormous potential for abuse and exploitation
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You would think! But any policy you pass is going to have some ugly side effects. Policies that are meant to express values vs policies designed to achieve outcomes :/
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this distinction isn’t very strong: the ostensible outcome any policy is meant to produce is always in support of some value system—even just in the designation of priorities
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hahaha that's true ok how about: near mode policies vs far mode policies
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I’m not familiar with those terms
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here's . . . kind of a summary http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/06/near-far-summary.html … it was the shit Robin was on from maybe 2009-2012, was a pretty helpful insight pump
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decriminalization seems me to be a far-mode policy: supporting autonomy, while (hopefully) curtailing the abuse and exploitation that follow from prohibition however, it does introduce externalities of licensing and regulation, to Actually Do these things i dunon
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yeah it's messy -_-
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Do you have anything I can read ?
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I won't doxx you

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UM I had a post up a while ago but I deep-six'd it at some point. With prostitution generally, you can reduce quantities with some policies (although probably not much); one major cost is that these policies tend to make sex workers voluntary or otherwise much much worse off.
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This gets really really really challenging with underage sex workers, for reasons I bet you can imagine. This is a nice ethnographic-ish study of street youth in New York, you can get a handle on some of the trade-offs involved. It's a mess. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/42186/2000119-Surviving-the-Streets-of-New-York.pdf …
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There's various difficult policy issues re: kids. One problem is they're dumb as fuck & readily commit crimes upon each other that'd get years in prison if done by adults. So to avoid imprisoning large % of kids, we let other kids suffer awful lvls of violence & sexual assault.
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oh man I hadn't even thought about kid-on-kid violence oof
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Well, it also "helps" that a lot of policies are much worse if you don't legalize children shooting their parents first.
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>when you make it impossible to completely legally leave a shit situation so kids start breaking the law and the media says "Oh no I think we have a problem."
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