People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard

Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by peacetreefrog on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:48AM (#17515737)

Even if we're all watching each other, we still all have our own incentives and not so obvious irrationalities.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by aalleavitch on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:50PM (#17516416)

Then the problem becomes identifying and accounting for these incentives and irrationalities.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by loa-in-backup on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:45AM (#17522054)

We solved these kind of problems: electronic systems in space have multiple redundancies, where the result returned by most of them is picked as input to other systems. This ensures that one system's quirks are kept in check

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by dqpb on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:11PM (#17516624)

We don't even have a handle on what constitutes rational incentives/behavior, let alone irrational ones.

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