Manfred comments on Open thread, August 19-25, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 20 August 2013 08:54:50PM 2 points [-]

What kind of gaming the system were you thinking of?

Yeah, bidding = deception. But in addition to someonewrong's answer, I was thinking you could just end up doing a shitty job at things (e.g. cleaning the bathroom). Which is to say, if this were an actual labor market, and not a method of communicating between people who like each other and have outside-the-market reasons to cooperate, the market doesn't have much competition.

Comment author: maia 21 August 2013 02:42:28AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, that's unfortunately not something we can really handle other than decreeing "Doing this chore entails doing X and it doesn't count if you don't do X." Enforcing the system isn't solved by the system itself.

a method of communicating between people who like each other and have outside-the-market reasons to cooperate

Good way to describe it.

Comment author: juliawise 13 October 2013 03:00:26PM 0 points [-]

Except she specifies that if they're bidding above market wages for a task (cleaning the bathroom would work fine), they'll just pay someone else to do it. Of course, chores like getting up to deal with a sick child are not so outsourceable.