the tradeoff works like so in this abstraction. ideally the contract might be extremely flexible in what is permitted, to allow action in as many spaces as possible where there might be mutual gain
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but, verifying whether there's a breach in these complex spaces might be hard for a third party so maybe you can sacrifice some flexibility and simply forbid certain actions by one party or both that might be contextually fine but difficult to verify
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if you take if even further you might simply list the action spaces that are acceptable and sanction all actions outside of those spaces
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what is an ideal choice depends on context etc etc but one thing I am fairly confident in is that relatively powerful people ought to be held to a higher standard on the latter. for example "if you are the president and you fuck around with your intern you just are Toast"
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if you are powerful and you are not hewing to Wife of Caesar standards in your personal conduct i have to assume you are either a predator or a goddamn fool
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anyway I don't think this reasoning is tight and this is just a hunch but to the extent sexual liberation makes the strictest behavior standards more difficult to enforce, and reduces the extent to which a third party can verify whether any situation is Bad Actually,
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so. anyway at least one cheer for this guypic.twitter.com/nMJj6C33NW
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Replying to @InfraredArmy @eigenrobot
i'm kinda torn on the billy graham rule tbh. on the one hand, i think *if* following it "threatens women's careers" as is claimed by some, then your industry is FAKE AND GAY because people are clearly promoted based on schmoozing rather than actual merit...
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...on the other hand, i don't actually believe in following it because sex segregation (e.g. "you can't have close friends of the opposite sex aside from your spouse") is socially toxic and doesn't actually serve your purpose very well anymore post-LGBT rights revolution
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i dont think the world is shaped like that
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...which one of my assertions are you critiquing? the idea that there's such a thing as "actual merit" separate from schmoozing, or that sex segregation is bad, or that segregating the sexes doesn't provide such a good clear line anymore now that gay sex is normalized?
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to be clear i don't have a 1000 IQ argument for sex segregation being bad, it is purely based on personal experience and Vibes
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