There's a wide range of different social contexts for this. I personally share the opinion expressed in your quote, but I also have been in environments where such an approach was actively socially or otherwise counterproductive.

To a lesser extent, the same reasoning works for using soap on your body as well as deodorant. You may need it less often than you think. Your skin might thank you.

I am not. I am only saying that #3 is sufficient to cover all iterative interactions where one player's actions meaningfully alter the others' outcomes.

I think I agree with your comment except for the "but." AFAICT it doesn't contradict mine? In your parenthetical scenario, #3  also does not hold - the CDT agent has no negotiating power against the tit-for-tat bot.

I think that's implicitly covered under #3. The ability to alter outcomes of future interactions is a form of negotiating power.

This seems like a wrong calculation on several counts:

It makes me very sad that these problems were not immediately obvious to a group of "consultants, data analysts and managers." OTOH, maybe they weren't asked? Or else maybe there's  just even more skill issues in those fields than I realized.

I drive a Sierra 2500 which has a turning radius of ~53'. It really does change how (and where) you have to drive.

In any case I agree something like this should exist.

The correct amount of time and effort to devote to the meta-level is not 100% (you don't do anything useful), and not 0% (you don't know how to do anything well). Somewhere in the middle is the optimal amount, and that amount will differ between people for all sorts of reasons. What do you think the optimal amount is for you, and why? That would essentially remove the problem this piece talks about from the piece itself, by tying the thinking back to a real world problem you're trying to solve.

I read that line as Zvi talking about privately owned self-driving cars, not just robotaxis. Otherwise yeah it's very similar.

Edit to add that the first Kelsey Piper quote is about feeling bad about waiting three weeks to go public with an unpopular judgment call. Meanwhile, I think we can all comfortably look at false things the mainstream authorities stuck with for years, and some they still haven't acknowledged.