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Comment author: Azathoth123 04 November 2014 02:39:50AM *  -1 points [-]

That depends: what system of incentives, ranging from monetary payment to a gun to your head, is acting to make you choose vanilla?

That's still evidence that the value of said incentives is larger than any preference I have for chocolate over vanilla.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2014 08:43:10AM 0 points [-]

Which is actually why those incentives are confounding factors when we're trying to measure your actual preferences.

Comment author: Azathoth123 05 November 2014 01:43:42AM 0 points [-]

Not if those same factors also show up it the decision you're planning to make based on those preferences.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 November 2014 10:51:56AM -2 points [-]

Not if those same factors also show up it the decision you're planning to make based on those preferences.

They don't: collective, political decisions are simply not supposed to take individuals' incentives into account as inputs, but instead to change those incentives as output.

Comment author: Azathoth123 06 November 2014 07:10:17AM 0 points [-]

How did we go from "preferences" to "incentives" and what distinction are you trying to make here?

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