Well, YES. Paying taxes to the organization that runs ICE, or voting for whichever politician runs against Trump, or trading with a doctor benefiting from an occupational licensing regime; these acts would all be great evils if you weren't trapped.https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1206718983115698176 …
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The question is, when are you legitimately trapped, and when have you been psy-oped into perceiving a trap (that could actually be defied at acceptable cost with some amount of bravery)? 1/2
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The voting case is a particularly interesting one where 2008!Yudkowsky seems to disagree with 2020!Yudkowsky, and I'm curious what changed your mind? 2/2https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k5qPoHFgjyxtvYsm7/stop-voting-for-nincompoops …
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Improved model of the social climate where revolutions are much less startable or controllable by good actors. Having spent more time chewing on Nash equilibria, and realizing that the trap is *real* and can't be defied away even if it's very unpleasant.
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To a first approximation, you are always actually trapped. If you weren't actually trapped, you'd be seeing defiant teenagers being outside the trap *successfully* in a useful direction.
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There really are people who don't vote for major party candidates (hi!). There are significantly fewer people, but they exist, who don't go to doctors, who emigrate from countries whose governments they disapprove of, or who evade taxes, though those are much more costly.
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What % of waiters, taxi drivers do you think report cash tips accurately? How about other people engaging in cash transactions?
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Oh, ok, I imagine low key tax evasion for cash transactions is common and rarely enforced. It's hard to do on a salary or if you're wealthy, I'd expect?
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Sure, which is one disadvantage to high income life strategies
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