hegemonicon comments on Beware Trivial Inconveniences - Less Wrong

90 Post author: Yvain 06 May 2009 10:04PM

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Comment author: hegemonicon 07 May 2009 11:57:43AM *  0 points [-]

It's not exactly the same as the other ones Yvain mentioned, but the mechanics of the situation - raising the 'price of admission' so that the vast majority of people are tipped in a certain direction, ie: not robbing your house - are similar enough that the same forces are probably at work.