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The thought saver at the end of the heritability section asks you to remember some strategies for self control, but they've not been introduced yet
Presumably the welfare premium is reduced if the ethical egg providers can recoup some costs from a quality premium
Not sure at all! It still seems like the ordering is tricky. They don't know how many ethical eggs they've sold when selling towards the consumer. There's not a guarantee of future ethical eggs when buying the certificate.
Maybe it works out OK, and they can sell 873,551 eggs at a regular price after that many certificates were bought, and the rest at the higher price. I know very little about how the food supply chain works
IIUC, this exposes the high-welfare egg co to more risk. It's hard to sell 1 million eggs for one price, and 1 million for another price. So they probably have to choose to sell at the low welfare price constantly. But this means they build up a negative balance that they're hoping ethical consumers will buy them out of.
Thanks!
Was this actually cross posted by EY, or by Rob or Ben? I prefer it being mentioned in the latter case
To add more color to the inadequate equilibrium: I didn’t want to hang out with people with a lot of risk, not because of how bad COVID would be for me, but because of how it would limit which community members would interact with me. But this also meant I was a community member who was causing other people to take less risk.
I didn’t mean to predict on this; I was just trying to see number of predictions on first one. Turns out that causes prediction on mobile
Hoping, I guess, that the name was bad enough that others would call it an Uhlmann Filter
People sometimes argue agains, for example, engaging with the news because its incentives run sufficiently counter to your own. This seems reasonably convincing. But almost everything has incentives that run at least a little counter to my goals. And almost every organisation is made up of people that are overall pretty decent. When does the former overpower the latter such that it's better to Get Gone.
For now, my partial answer is that if something is existentially incentivized counter to my decision making, then I don't want any part of it, no matter how noble the individuals producing it may be. If an organisation can only exist by making me forget to choose
Why have humans done so well?
Is it because of our intelligence? I think clearly it has something to do with it, but it's very vague to me exactly how. Like, is it basically just we had a bit of spare capacity to develop some technology, and then we were in a positive feedback loop? I'm also confused by my understanding that humans are not undergoing significant selection for intelligence. And it seems like a smaller group of smarter humans would have done worse than a larger group of dumber humans for a lot of our history.
So is it because of cooperation? I think not. The eusocials (among hymenoptera or the naked mole rats) have us licked in that department.
One possibility is that the smarts, language and interaction just let us be a substrate for memes. In that picture humans are just powerful and in control of many resources because the stable memes that lead humans to spread widely and reproduce a lot also led us to be powerful
Sometimes I appear to be looking for something to ‘work distract’ me. I’ll think “I should figure out the best use of my day”, and then decide “well, I’ll just check this email that only gets productive stuff sent to it, and then maybe I’ll start doing something off the back of that”. This is not a terrible habit: it leads to a lot of the work I end up getting done. But it is interesting that it displaces actually prioritising.
When I'm being unproductive, I can usually think of a hack to fix it. But I also normally really don't want to do it. The feeling is similar to unsolicited debugging ("Yes, of course I could try that ...").
An obvious guess is some internal conflict -- it's interesting that my strategies for helping with that (e.g. focusing) are also normally rejected in the same way.
I think a lot of the time I would be well-served by using [old : burning the] willpower to institute the hack, but I wish I had a better classifier for when
LW must really need the money, having decided to destroy a non-trivial communal resource