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> Social engineering is generally bad. So insurance company shouldn't raise your premiums if you are a bad driver and crash your car every month? There are li
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> Social engineering is generally bad.
So insurance company shouldn't raise your premiums if you are a bad driver and crash your car every month?
There are like 10 private actors trying to socially engineer me. Among them are car drivers that act in an agressive manner when they see a bicycle on the road, they want to discourage cyclist from using the road and do it very effectively.
- parineum 3y agoInsurance companies don't raise premiums in hopes of making you a safe driver, they do it because you're higher risk. That's the difference between social engineering (policies designed to produce an outcome) and market forces (policies reacting to changing environments). Social engineering is a layer on top of market forces that rarely works as intended because people aren't very good at predicting the behavior/reaction of markets.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoPeople that throw drinks at cyclists while driving aren't market. The idea that you can reduce all of society to market forces is preposterous. If you take you argument about 'social engineering' to it's logical conclusion, it would mean that we should not stop people from starting open pit fires in parks and causing wildfires, we should mandate vaccines, chlorinate water, have food safety standards and other idiosyncratic outcomes.
- parineum 3y ago> The idea that you can reduce all of society to market forces is preposterous. Good thing I didn't say that then. > If you take you argument about 'social engineering' to it's logical conclusion, Logical conclusion or comical extreme?