No social engineering idea is complete until it has been compiled to Apathy OS.
Testing an idea against either an idealistic or tragic conception of humans, or both, is useless. Humans are rarely at best/worst.
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Elinor Ostrom sez this idea is what separates first-gen collective action theories from the 2nd-gen: real populations contain enough not-purely-selfish actors to change the outcomes away from the Prisoner's Dilemma
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