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i think your concern about unintended side-effects is very valid, but i disagree with your conclusion. in most cases, we need more innovative approaches to pol
by clairity 8y ago
i think your concern about unintended side-effects is very valid, but i disagree with your conclusion.
in most cases, we need more innovative approaches to policy development rather than defaulting to a market as the only alternative.
as an example off the top of my head: using a faster, instrumented, and iterative approach to policy design, as startups are encouraged to do. or, cultivate new methods for finding better, more effective policies quickly (like design sprints, for example).
- sigstoat 8y ago> as an example off the top of my head: using a faster, instrumented, and iterative approach to policy design, as startups are encouraged to do. or, cultivate new methods for finding better, more effective policies quickly (like design sprints, for example). the resulting regulatory uncertainty would probably be worse than bad regulations.
- clairity 8y agoyes, that's possible, but the regulatory environment is already uncertain, and trending toward less certainty, due to increased partisanship and the ping-ponging between ideological extremes (accelerated by the money pouring into politics). so if citizens & businesses knew that regulations were generally going to trend toward more fairness, the regulatory environment would be less uncertain (the cone of future possibilities narrows, even if the path was entirely a random walk).