I think there are two things about the underlying phenomenon that are worth noting and one thing about the article that makes my eyes roll into the back of my head casehttps://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1143887599162908672 …
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Thing the first This parallels Subliminal Message panicking to a certain extent which boy that was Heh I am extremely skeptical of the actual efficacy of subliminal messaging People just like to panic
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BigTech companies can use all sorts of tricks to push behavior in one direction or another in the short term but users very quickly adapt and drop a product if it's pissing them off A large part of my job is pointing this out to managers and devs and trying to stop it
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The other issue is asymmetric costs around user agreements My skip level at the Fed talked about this a fair amount during the 08 crash, his cute term for it was "obfuscopoly" A company only has to create an agreement once; each of millions of users must pare the fine print
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This is actually a problem. I can see regulation being useful in concept, but per ushe the problem is in execution and I'm pretty skeptical of the government managing to improve on the status quo
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have you seen the governments user agreement its billions of pages long you have to hire professionals at hundreds of dollars per hour to understand it if you violate it they put you in a cage steal your kids or shoot you and there's no opt out
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Replying to @eigenrobot
this really hit home for me how living in a society is just like being an EA gamer
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Replying to @WinthropWickard @eigenrobot
anyways the Correct take is that probably a good two-thirds of bureaucracy could be replaced by good tax policy
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the bureaucracy will never allow this
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Replying to @eigenrobot
honestly social choice theory is basically postmodern social analysis for righties "who benefits from this? what assumptions are going into this? are there any truly impartial actors"
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