he’s going pretty hard against the whole discipline of behavioral economics idk
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Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot and
I’m a sucker for anyone dunking on cass sunstein
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why banana??? his star wars book wasn't too bad
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I’m bitter about the nudge stuff https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/Econ264/papers/Thaler%20Sunstein%20AER%202003.pdf …
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Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot and
coz it's fake or coz you don't like technocrats engineering stimuli around you so you do what they want
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Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot and
I mean I respekt attaqs on fake stuff specially when they are pushed by elites but this it not a rethorical question don't you think the definition of nudge is broad enough that to some extent microengineering stuff for microincentives of what one likes is... normal?
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Replying to @SilverVVulpes @literalbanana and
like I recall when the guys behind it got the nobel's some people were annoyed at the concept because it was "herding of poor people" and I mostly didn't get it
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Replying to @eigenrobot @literalbanana and
it doesn't work for the grand claims it was supposed to help, I always loled when people tried to reverse like obesity epidemic with it, but I feel like some defenses of like, pretty architecture or whatever use nudge-like arguments maybe lack of precision is one of the problems
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or WRONG precision, maybe - trying to be precise in the wrong ways without even trying to understand reality
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Replying to @literalbanana @eigenrobot and
oh yeah being opaque about why it works ruined basically all of social priming. even the guys doing research on semantic/cognitive priming did follow up research to see what brain bug just happened, guess supposed political applications ruined even that here
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