http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/05/simplerules.html … @robinhanson's explanation for why people prefer discretion to simple rules is overconfidence -- everyone assumes *they'd* be the one to have special pull with decision-makers, or wants to pretend they are. "Let's play fair" is a loser's position.
Yes, but the speed camera would also exonerate you if you *weren't* speeding, whereas being pulled over for "driving while black" is a thing. If speed cameras *replaced* cop cars, that is -- which seems politically unlikely.
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Right - a moot point so long as traffic cameras are only supplementing cops rather than replacing them. Separately, there's been enough corruption around those things I would not be so confident that they would in fact exonerate the actually innocent.
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This is only true when rules create losses. If rule is profitable, then people lean away from discretion. If rule gives both profit and loss in balance, like if you also reward going slower than speed limit, then there is no preference towards either.
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