
EAG 2017 Boston: Convinced, not convincing (Duncan Sabien)
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The Importance of Asymmetric Decision Making
In addition to asymmetric decision making, the second thing I would claim is that you should make decisions on a policy level as if you were making them for all people similar to you. The place that he's looking here is sort of the lesson of capitalism. One of the good things that capitalism did was it tried to build a system where if everybody was like flawed and selfish and broken, we would still end up in a good place. Whereas communism more classically is like, if we're all just really good people, this will totally work?
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