Lockdown is expen$ive! What does it buy? (1) Flatten curve at pandemic peak, (2) Delay peak hoping for vaccine (3) Delay peak for time to expand docs, beds, ventilators, tests, apps, etc. Only (1) seems cost-effective to me, but if so, deliberate exposure would also help now.
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Replying to @robinhanson
I have a bad feeling about "lockdown is expensive", not sure if this is me being stupid or other people legitimately missing something.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
I think -- and I believe you also think -- that a lot of the activity people are currently "locked down" and prevented from doing is neither productive nor pleasurable. "Bullshit jobs" and the like.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
Full quarantine lockdown has some real human costs (especially for poorer people) so we don't want it to last forever, but I don't think I want to go back to business as usual either.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
Normalizing work-from-home, normalizing living a less spendy lifestyle, etc., allows for a reset from competitive signaling processes that aren't necessarily desirable in themselves.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
We do a lot of competitive signaling at home too.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
I'm having a hard time parsing this. When you two are discussing competitive signalling, are you using it euphemistically? I looked up the term and am not sure how it fits.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022053175900496 …
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
like "keeping up with the Joneses?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses …
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