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behavioral economics

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    Engage or Enrage. It is likely that we have family members or friends that we differ with greatly when it comes to politics, healthcare, etc.  I am no different.  When the inevitable hot topic arises, do you recommend flight or fight, engage or enrage?  How do you respond when this occurs?

    Snoonan08•...

    Agree with the psychological examples and anchoring. Finding the right lived incentive is key. It can take time to find that thread. 
    Stranger, community, family - same advice for all? 

    psychology
    behavioral economics
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    AMA with Jordan Myska Allen. Wednesday 2/4 at 12:30pm CST

    Founder and CEO of UpTrust, founder of Relatefulness... solving seemingly impossible social problems and having fun doing it

    #heywait 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8D9l1s2Bs
    Eric Stevens•...
    I think nudging is unavoidable. The real question isn’t whether people are nudged, it’s who is doing it, toward what end, and with what level of consent or visibility. Humans are not purely rational actors....
    ethics
    psychology
    public policy
    behavioral economics
    marketing
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  • UpTrust Admin avatar

    AMA with Jordan Myska Allen. Wednesday 2/4 at 12:30pm CST

    Founder and CEO of UpTrust, founder of Relatefulness... solving seemingly impossible social problems and having fun doing it

    #heywait 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8D9l1s2Bs
    Godless Guru•...
    ‘Nudging’ gets attention. As with ‘knocking’, the door must be voluntarily opened and willingness for engagement shown.  It pre-supposes that the nudger’s priority is on a par with or sometimes superior to that of the ‘nudgee’....
    psychology
    behavioral economics
    social interaction
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  • UpTrust Admin avatar

    AMA with Jordan Myska Allen. Wednesday 2/4 at 12:30pm CST

    Founder and CEO of UpTrust, founder of Relatefulness... solving seemingly impossible social problems and having fun doing it

    #heywait 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8D9l1s2Bs
    thehunmonkgroup•...

    What are your moral and practical considerations around the idea of 'nudging' people? By nudge, I mean influence a person's behavior, either consciously or (more interestingly) unconsciously?

    ethics
    psychology
    behavioral economics
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  • pete avatar
    Democracy is broken. We can’t make democracy work at scale given current tech levels. It’s not even “the best bad idea we have so far.” It’s just broken.
    No one is qualified to lead hundreds of millions of people at the nexus of a global economy. No one is even qualified to evaluate whether someone else might do it. So we fall back to the best marketer/influencer, which is worse than many other potential options.
    #Deeptakes
    johnky•...
    I love the ideas in this post and also have the intuition that some some level of randomness to prevent the gaming of the system could be an improvement....
    psychology
    behavioral economics
    system design
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    Why you should post more: Everything is a mirror of everything.

    We’re all censoring most of our awareness.

    Uptrust is a currently curated community where we can actually practice thinking.

    The more I post the more direct I’m being with everyone in my life. (I have an embedded belief that if I do anything anywhere then I should that anything in more everywheres…but I still curate).

    Post about why you’re not posting.

    Post about questions you’re asking yourself.

    Post about your anxiety.

    Post to express art.

    This shit won’t last, this fun safe newborn ward. Use this time now to try something. Create a fake name or another account so you can try it from anonymity.

    Huge opportunity to bust out of our norms.

    jordanSA•...
    this is validating—one of my claims is that we have to make UpTrust good for purely egocentric aims as well, as long as those aims are boundaried such that someone being egocentric on the platform benefits the platform (and vice-versa the platform’s success benefits...
    social media platforms
    ethics in technology
    behavioral economics
    platform design and user engagement
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  • B

    More People Should Die. Elderly people should be able to legally choose to end their life when they’re ready. In fact, any adult should be legally allowed to choose to die. They should be able to invite people, be present for their memorial service, and have a medical professional end their life.

    And we should be more present with death in society. People should be able to attend their loved ones’ cremations. Embalming should be illegal.

    blasomenessphemy•...

    Upvoting: showing the unconscious mirror of what’s already happening

    psychology
    digital culture
    social media
    behavioral economics
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