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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together

May 7

“Was Richard Thaler's advocacy for nudging justified after The Daily Economy's 'After Nudging' critique?”

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    blasomenessphemy·...

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

    psychology
    digital-culture
    social-media
  • ↳onDemocracy is brokenby
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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....
    psychology
    behavioral-economics
    system-design
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    jordanSA·...imported

    Does the wager mechanic actually get people to read the thing that threatens them, or does it just select for people who were already confident?

    psychology
    behavioral-economics
    experiment-design
  • ↳onEngage or EnragebyFFrankieBoy
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    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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  • ↳onAMA with Jordan Myska Allenby
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    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
  • ↳onWhy you should post more:byBblasomenessphemy
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    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
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