The opposite of Hanlon's Razor is something like "never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by not actually wanting to do the thing."
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aka "much apparent incompetence is actually covert resistance to the unwelcome demands of authorities."
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IQ test scores rise by 10 points when you give test-takers incentives. For people with <100 IQs, the average effect on IQ is 15 points. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/19/7716.full.pdf …
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James C. Scott claims that slaves and peasants have traditionally engaged in "everyday resistance" -- feigning stupidity, illness, and incompetence to sabotage work that they are forced to do without compensation.https://libcom.org/history/everyday-forms-peasant-resistance-james-c-scott …
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In the Player frame (https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/player-vs-character-a-two-level-model-of-ethics/ …) it doesn't matter whether someone is consciously feigning incompetence or subconsciously sabotaging tasks they don't want to do. If performance responds to incentives, it's not *mere* "incompetence."
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But "performance responds to some incentives" doesn't imply "performance will respond to all incentives." For instance, I suspect there are some kinds of cognitive tasks where punishing failure will not improve performance.
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We have a concept of "your fault" that corresponds to a prediction that punishment will be a deterrent, and a concept of "not your fault" that corresponds to a prediction that incentives will have no effects at all.
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But what if something like "creative thinking" is something people do better when they're motivated, but it has to be intrinsic motivation? What if you can't threaten or punish people into being more creative?
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If we conflate "has agency" with "deserves punishment", there's a lot of important stuff we can't talk about.
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