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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
56d ago“Was Richard Thaler's advocacy for nudging justified after The Daily Economy's 'After Nudging' critique?”
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- 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.... - Snoonan08...
- 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.... - 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’.... 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...