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by mikkergp 4y ago
> This meta-analytic finding turns on the authors’ method for measuring publication bias. Because I accept that, I must believe that this entire body of research, probably the signal behavioral economics work, is essentially worthless! T
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by mikkergp 4y ago
But I don’t think the goal is “most people can be nudged” so much as “a nudge is a cheap way to increase a behavior by 5-10% which is probably quite significant in policy circles. Low single digit percentage increase in people who pay thei
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Where are they getting an effect size of .08 if not by mathing a bunch of other effect sizes.
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I think what’s not clear is what’s in those papers and what exactly they have to say about nudging and what definition they’re using. It defies credulity to think that changing defaults in software doesn’t change behavior if only because m
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I guess the question would be are positive results missing for another reason, like they are harder to test for, therefor the data looks better than it should because in the aggregate they are better, but yeah this is probably unlikely.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
How does a meta analysis of something like this avoid, I don’t know what it would be called but like regression to the mean. A “nudge” isn’t a singular thing, it’s a very diverse process requiring a competent administrator. My gut would s
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Some other poster posted that they must have a pretty specific definition of nudge, because it defies credulity that defaults don’t change outcome if only because half the time I don’t read the defaults or know where to find them. I mean I
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by mikkergp 4y ago
They’re not really separate issues. On some level we’re supporting a company vision and direction. Right now that direction says “we’re going to try and eek out every last dollar and we don’t care about the quality of our content”. I thi
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yes all companies seek profits. All employees want more money. But all else being equally I support businesses that talk about what they can do for me, not what I can do for them. Same goes for employees I want to hire. I will happily pa
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by mikkergp 4y ago
If publication bias is the exclusion of publishing results that doesn’t support your hypothesis, how are they taking that into account? If I’m interpreting this correctly(and I by no means am sure that I am), I infer that they are saying in
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by mikkergp 4y ago
When you say moderate without AI are you suggesting human moderation? This is not really a good solution to this problem either. Paying people to traumatize themselves by watching video after video or reading tweet after tweet of the wors
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Until someone else comes up with a wild idea? I guess this is sort of what I had in mind, to make it at like state or industry sized scale, new idea comes along 20 companies try it. Spend a bunch of money hire people etc, feeding the econ
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This makes the joke so much more funnier.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
What is the ELI5 20 people trading things in a small town definition of a recession? I get the whole 2 quarters of economic decline definition, but I guess I ask because part of a recession is psychological right? It gets worse because pe
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by mikkergp 4y ago
You’re not wrong, and yet how wasteful.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It's weird to think we should build a whole bunch more restrooms when in a city most every business on every block has them. It's really an inhuman thing to turn people away from. I vaguely agree with the idea that Starbucks can
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I've been doing this recently, posting a lot more and looking back at my posts to see what was upvoted. This persons conclusions line up pretty well with my predictions based on analyzing my own highest upvoted comments on HN and redd
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by mikkergp 4y ago
DJs and music producers are exceptionally creative, but if they use existing work, they have to license it.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I will say that the images included have not show to be particularly creative, unless I missed a wider galaxy of non-existent food items. It's not entirely convincing that the generated images aren't just glued together pieces of
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is this just a search engine to find relevant content and remix it a bit, or can you actually create new content. These two things don't solve the same problem, and you may run into lots of copyright problems.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This generates a lot more questions than it answers, does it say more about people or more about media? I hate television news no matter what. I guess it gets worse, but I don't know that I've ever had high confidence in televis
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by mikkergp 4y ago
While I think there is correlation here, I think a better arugment would be for the cyclical nature of art. When society goes one way art may go another. (or at times the same way, I doubt it's a 180 relationship) > Now, if you&#x2
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The 80's also had some of the darkest horror and dystopian sci-fi that we've seen in popular culture. Interesting in the article he never mentions Seinfeld or Peanuts as those were turning points into more realistic or less sympa
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think it’s more distasteful in the modern clickbait blog world then more intellectual and well thought out books/essays/etc, where your perspective is not designed for a purely emotional response.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
“Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man.”
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I get this, and I've started to write this way, because it gets a better response; but it feels to me like it's designed to maximize an emotional response and not a cognitive response, and find I have less trust in people who writ
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Why would this be anywhere near the line? I think it's squarely within the line :-)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> This is a form of progressive pricing that allows the team to charge people who are price insensitive more while still being affordable. Is it not dystopian that we live in a world where a working class family can't take their kid
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Why are politicians so eager to do this? Is it because politicians get bribes, or because they represent the investors some how?
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I kinda think that the salient point is that the law can and often does provide outs to respect the fact that life is complicated. Post 32 week abortions are debate within a debate because people aren't really talking about the same th

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