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.
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6.) There's a weird thing where justice/rationality/impersonal principle is coded as "mean" while making exceptions is coded as "nice." A "judgmental" person is one who makes *harsh* judgments -- even though judgments can be good as well as bad.
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This may just be loss aversion or pessimistic bias: the fear of being punished for our failings is more salient than the hope of being rewarded for our merits.
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Unacknowledged 6: the calculation problem. People either consciously or unconsciously recognize that hard and fast centralized rules are unlikely to actually produce desired outcomes. A single rule that's strictly enforced needs to be complex, like a good genie's wish.
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Consider all the problems that come with even such seemingly simple thing as "Don't kill." People prefer rules with interpretability because this distributes the calculation among millions of police, judges, and juries which can think about each case separately.
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And you interpret a simple rule us collectively admitting to more than when we make a vague rule with discretion?
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