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Another example of the difference between homo sapians and homo econimus. This makes some sense from a rational, detached, Vulcan perspective, but homo sapiens

by jerf 5y ago

Another example of the difference between homo sapians and homo econimus. This makes some sense from a rational, detached, Vulcan perspective, but homo sapiens hates it. (I haven't sat down and deeply analyzed it and all the second order effects it may have just for an HN comment, but it's not an immediately obviously stupid idea from a Vulcan perspective.) Unfortunately, homo sapiens was the target market.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> Another example of the difference between homo sapians and homo econimus. This makes some sense from a rational, detached, Vulcan perspective, but homo sapiens hates it. Homo economicus specifically refers to entities meeting all the elements of the rational choice model, including having and acting on perfect information about forward net utilities of decisions. Since the entire purpose of this service is to try to deal with a problem of imperfect information about forward net utilities of an economic decision, it would make no sense if the participants were homo economicus. Your not wrong that it doesn't work for H. sapiens, though.