Conversation

I think most/of those are examples of what Jon Elster called the younger sibling syndrome - failing to see others deliberate, optimising agents. Studying economics may be a bit of an antidote, since it trains you to see people as such agents (indeed it sometimes goes too far in… Show more
2
12
Are these actually examples of the “opposite” being achieved? I think rent control and GDPR at least have had some local positive effects, but global negative effects. Perhaps because applying force in a complex system has unpredictable side effects. (Though GDPR was probably… Show more
1
1
The unintended effect of x-risk warnings have the opposite characteristics of rent control / GDPR in that the latter two are about not seeing far enough into the future, and the former is about seeing so far into the future that it unearthed a vision of incredible power and… Show more
By analogy, a policy to increase X and a policy to decrease X will always look similar, bc they are causally entangled with X.
1
3
Show replies