Myopic optima in morality

Blowbacks, reverse psychology, norm enforcement

2020-02-01 — 2022-02-13

Wherein examples of naïve interventions are examined and perverse outcomes are exhibited, as in teen pregnancy, trauma-amplifying policing, offensive-speech rebound, drug prohibition, and allergy-avoidance backfire.

bandit problems
boring
bounded compute
cooperation
culture
democracy
economics
ethics
mind
rhetoric
snarks
sociology
wonk

Things where the naïve strategy seems to produce perverse outcomes

  1. Teen pregnancy
  2. Policing traumatising speech can make it more traumatic
  3. Producing offensive speech can produce more
  4. Banning drug usage can make it more dangerous
  5. Evaluating relative power on a small scale can 🚧TODO🚧 clarify
  6. Avoiding peanuts