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Rationality and Cognitive Science (with Anna Riedl)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Incentive Gradient of Social Forces

We just by nature tend to copy people like that seems like a fundamental part of what humans do. And then there's a separate thing which is that social forces create incentives, right? So once everyone's doing something a certain way, there are now incentives around that you might get benefits from doing things similarly or you might get punished by doing things differently and so on. The incentive gradient of the social forces is very real and important to take into account.

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