Note that my goal isn’t to evaluate harms caused by Leverage and try to offset such harms. Instead, it’s trying to offset any incentives against sharing risky honest accounts like Zoe’s.
I like the careful disambiguation here.
FWIW, I independently proposed something similar to a friend in the Lightcone office last week, with an intention that was related to offsetting harm. My reasoning:
There’s often a problem in difficult “justice” situations, where people have only a single bucket for “make the sufferer feel better” and “address the wrong that was done.”
This is quite bad—it often causes people to either do too little for victims, or too much to offenders, because they’re trying to achieve two goals at once and one goal dominates the calculation. Not helping someone materially because the harm proved unintentional, or punishing the active party way in excess of what they “deserve” because that’s what it takes to make the injured party feel better, that sort of thing.
Separating it out into “we’re still figuring out the Leverage situation but in the meantime, let’s try to make this person’s life a little better” is excellent.
Reiterating that I understand that’s not what you are doing, here. But I think that would separately have also been a good thing.
I like the careful disambiguation here.
FWIW, I independently proposed something similar to a friend in the Lightcone office last week, with an intention that was related to offsetting harm. My reasoning:
There’s often a problem in difficult “justice” situations, where people have only a single bucket for “make the sufferer feel better” and “address the wrong that was done.”
This is quite bad—it often causes people to either do too little for victims, or too much to offenders, because they’re trying to achieve two goals at once and one goal dominates the calculation. Not helping someone materially because the harm proved unintentional, or punishing the active party way in excess of what they “deserve” because that’s what it takes to make the injured party feel better, that sort of thing.
Separating it out into “we’re still figuring out the Leverage situation but in the meantime, let’s try to make this person’s life a little better” is excellent.
Reiterating that I understand that’s not what you are doing, here. But I think that would separately have also been a good thing.