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