Lumifer comments on Open thread, Jul. 11 - Jul. 17, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Thomas 12 July 2016 05:41:47PM *  0 points [-]

Pure economically driven decisions should win eventually.

For example we have once reduced the number of school buses from 4 to 3. 20% or 160 students come with a bus. That's 3 full buses or 4 not so full buses. It's important however, that every arriving student has a class right away. Otherwise he may want to come with a later bus, overcrowding it.

Just on time arriving of those students with just 3 buses was a logistical nightmare. But just a constrain for the digital evolution of the school schedule.

Another big saving is to eliminate the afternoon school shift. We have 2 such cases already evolved.

Comment author: Lumifer 12 July 2016 06:03:25PM 3 points [-]

Pure economically driven decisions should win eventually.

Only in the realm of spherical cows in vacuum.

Also known as "The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".