The success of your organization comes from incentivizing value creation at scale in a sustainable way. Failure comes from the opposite -- incentivizing destructive or wasteful actions.
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All value derives from people doing valuable things (modulo non renewable natural resources). Thus you could say that all value derives from *creating incentives that get people to do valuable things* (modulo intrinsic motivation, which is rare).
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Incentive engineering may be the most important yet underlooked field of study
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Some people will say, "oh, that's just economics". Or "that's just law", "that's just management", "that's just gamification", etc. I mean, it is all of these things, obviously. But that's myopic, like saying infrastructure is just roads & bridges.
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An AI researcher would probably observe, "that field is just Collective Intelligence!". Which it also is. Cybernetics all the way down
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You might want to talk to some economists and philosophers...https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-theory/ …
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François is French and the French educational system rolls with a lot more philosophy than most of the rest of the Western world. I would argue that fields like philosophy, linguistics, and law are more adjacent to programming than many STEM fields but that's another discussion.
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When the automation revolution is in high gear, and the doing and inventing of valuable things is done by machines requiring no incentives to work, and the wet workers who created the machines are a distant memory ... will you define value so egocentrically around human work?
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Have you ever seen a kid playing a game instead of running away as bombs explode ?!
Bombs are falling like rain around the children.
They continue to play.
BECAUSE THEY ARE KIDS.
Let's not forget Geography is destiny.
Imagine you have your children there.
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It is an established field called "Mechanism Design". But, yes I agree that it has big potential.
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See also Nudge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book) …) for policy design that encourages positive personal and societal outcomes
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