Hidden motives complicates incentive design. Instead of just trying to offer people more of what they want, we need to let them continue to let them pretend to want what they pretend, while actually offering them more of what they really want. -- https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1084903516857094149
Lots of evidence that people do not like when options are objectively evaluated and the best one chosen.
Most people mainly favor discretion as a way to promote an informal favoritism from which they expect to benefit. They believe that they are unusually smart, attractive, charismatic, well-connected, and well-liked, just the sort of people who tend to be favored by informal discretion.
What if, when societies get rich, we all feel like we have high relative status, and a decent chance to get even more, neglecting the fact that most everyone around us is also richer as well?
Posts of his that made it into my Anki deck:
Blame Holes like Plot Holes
on Signaling (again)
Interesting side point: 1⁄3 of movie budget goes to marketing because blockbusters are a coordination game.
Who Likes Simple Rules
Why do people dislike objective rule comparisons?
Lots of evidence that people do not like when options are objectively evaluated and the best one chosen.
Explaining Regulation
Elite Biases Make Policy Biases—this post contains so much about how politics works and made it click for me.
Not by him, but there is also the following which I found via his Twitter
and
How many hours does it take to become friends