The Incentive Gradient of Social Forces

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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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Anna Riedl is a cognitive scientist with a primary research interest in judgement and decision-making under unmeasurable uncertainty, a field in the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. She loves the scientific method so much that she regularly spreads her joy about it in various formats of science communication. In the end, she cares about ideas being applied in the real world, solving problems, and benefitting humanity. This means she often plays the role of being an interface between the two worlds of ideas and their application by humans. Over the last years, she has founded and lead different organizations in the DACH region that work on improving the world. You can find more about her at riedlanna.com, follow her on Twitter at @annaleptikon, or email her at annariedl.office@gmail.com.

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