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Why are you so careful about your incentives? Do you think your motivation is so fickle as to be swayed by a bet when the other stakes are so high? This seems

• lukan 2y ago
  "Do you think your motivation is so fickle as to be swayed by a bet" Not swayed, but definitely influenced. Every positive and negative outcome of every scenario gets evaluated and our actions result from on this evaluation. Changing some factors changes the outcome. The details are obviously very complicated and the process far from understood, but the principle is quite established I think. So I do not want to influence my motivation even a tiny bit in a direction I do not like. edit: Hypothesis, many problems exist, because too many people bet on things they do not want, but might make money. So less investment in actually changing it.
  • s1artibartfast 2y ago
    That still doesnt explain the concern, given that there is a fundamental difference between influence and action threshold. There is no need to worry about putting a feather on a scale if the other side has an elephant.
    • lukan 2y ago
      "There is no need to worry about putting a feather on a scale if the other side has an elephant." True, but I think the scale here is a bit more complex. Climate change is a quite abstract threat for the brain. Feeling cold feels very real on the other hand. So doing things here and there might add up. Even feathers have weight.