Your guess on ratio of political capital investment between special interests and general public interest? Pick in range SI:GPI 1:99 - 99:1
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what's the difference between special interest and general public interest?
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example: agricultural subsidies versus tracking and stopping a disease epidemic. A spectrum though. Win-lose vs asym win-win
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oh I do have one non-definitive argument: the existence of free-rider effects
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@APXHard no dot product would represent an authoritarian zero-sum compromise. Everybody sacrifices individual interest by cos(theta)
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@APXHard I'd be wary of abstractions here. Better to work specific cases like anti-vaxx, climate change, DARPA funding, and work out
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heh heh beat you to punch by 30 mins. You're slowing down in your old age.
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Ideology differences can often be reduced to differences in what 2 people consider to be null hypothesis, with no actual experiment possible
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I think Adler wrote best about public interest, calling it “social interest” or “Gemeinschaftsgefuhl” phenomenologicalpsychology.com/2009/10/alfred
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