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Lumifer comments on The Argument from Crisis and Pessimism Bias - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 November 2014 07:16:44PM 2 points [-]

Funny how all the organizations are arranged in such a way that the organization's incentives are transmitted to the individuals inside them...

Comment author: ChristianKl 12 November 2014 07:30:03PM 2 points [-]

Part of Alan Greenspan's apology was that his biggest mistake was to believe that's true. Organisations are structured in a way to incentivise behavior that benefits them but nobody gets a promotion as a police officer because his superiors think he advanced the interest of the police by getting the population to be more afraid.

Comment author: Lumifer 12 November 2014 07:56:56PM 2 points [-]

Part of Alan Greenspan's apology was that his biggest mistake was to believe that's true.

You are mistaken. It is true that organization's incentives are always transmitted to the individuals within it. What is not true is that those are the only incentives which these individuals have.