Incentives are observation mechanisms, not control mechanisms
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True, incentives can only influence observable behaviour, control requires supervision and power to punish
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Human-mediated incentives, sure. But the universe provides gradients without people in the way.
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Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? Are you implying that they don’t influence people, but just allow the incentive maker a way to measure what’s going on?
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