Dagon comments on When considering incentives, consider the incentives of all parties - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dagon 29 May 2016 04:04:39PM 2 points [-]

This isn't about rationality and incentives. Treating groups as if they were individuals is politics.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 31 May 2016 02:55:31PM 1 point [-]

Politics is 95% incentives.

Comment author: Dagon 31 May 2016 03:14:10PM -1 points [-]

No. Policy may be about incentives. Politics is mostly about misdirection of attention and taking advantage of tribal instincts to gloss over individual incentives.