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I think about this sometimes from a slightly different angle - not the "expected value" number of deaths, but rather the (utilitarian?) math of actions which affect a huge number of people a little bit each. If you waste, say, 5 m
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Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators (1981) [pdf]
(pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
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I stumbled on this paper very early on in my career and it significantly shifted my attitudes toward work, politics, and society. In short: people follow incentives. Of course, the suggestion of "altering the reward system" breaks