I think “Don’t casually make contracts you don’t intent to keep” is just pretty cruxy for me. This is a key piece of being a trustworthy person who can coordinate in complex, novel domains. There might be a price where there is worth it to do it as a joke, but $10 is way too low.
I agree that the contracts part was important, and I share this crux. I should have noted that. I did purposefully modify my hypothetical so that I wasn’t becoming less trustworthy by signing my acquaintance’s piece of paper.
This actually seems obviously wrong to me, if for no other reason than “I think it’s moderately likely at some point you will get approached by someone who’d buy it for more than $10.”
I meant something more like the desperate “oh no my soul was so important, I’m going to pay $10k, $20k, whatever it takes to get it back!”; I should have clarified that in my original comment.
I agree that the contracts part was important, and I share this crux. I should have noted that. I did purposefully modify my hypothetical so that I wasn’t becoming less trustworthy by signing my acquaintance’s piece of paper.
I meant something more like the desperate “oh no my soul was so important, I’m going to pay $10k, $20k, whatever it takes to get it back!”; I should have clarified that in my original comment.