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If you had perfectly rational people, all uniform in their rationality, one might want to distribute that trait along the bell curve, such that most were "mostl
by NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
If you had perfectly rational people, all uniform in their rationality, one might want to distribute that trait along the bell curve, such that most were "mostly" rational, with a few highly irrational individuals and a few highly rational ones. It's like the ant colony... send agents out along all the possible paths simultaneously, see who comes back with cake.
Even in that model though, they all average out to "mostly rational". People do too.
What about this argument requires that people be individually rational rather than on-average rational?
- polygamous_bat 3y agoHave you ever lived with a roommate who doesn't flush the toilet after they use it, so you always have to flush the toilet twice, once before you use it and once after? What's up with this system that requires everyone to individually flush rather than every person on average to flush once?
- flushit 3y agoWow. Best comment I've read this year! (Like, seriously. Kudos!)
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoIf all we're counting is the number of flushes (which we are) why would that matter? You're injecting some weird morality into it which just doesn't belong. Economics works not despite the fact that some are irrational, but because all the irrationality averages out.