I think clarity is saying: a simple idea that explains all human motivation for ever is “incentives”. Although I personally am not sure that it is wrong.
If you are unclear; at least you do it with more words.
Simple Ideas That Explain Everything But Are Wrong?
‘incentives’
is a very short post; makes it hard for people who don’t get it to catch up. (no offence: I believe he meant it to be short to follow the rule of “simple ideas”)
Incentives in and of themselves explain a relationship between the incentive and a referent thing incentivised by it. It’s like saying ‘force’ in physics, which is incompatible within a framework of mutually exclusive but comprehensively exhaustive concepts which make up a interdisciplinary modelling kit for the world, but people were cool with it (till Einstein changed that) because of their narrow focus.
I’m too stupid to understand this. Could you dumb it down for me? Are you saying that the idea of force in physics was not simple, or good, or useful, or that it didn’t explain a lot of things? Or have I got the wrong end of your stick?
Force in physics was simple, good and useful, but less simply, good and useful that relativity, which doesn’t require ‘force’ as an explanatory mechanism because it doesn’t explain a lot of things.
Simple Ideas That Explain Everything But Are Wrong?
‘incentives’
Clarity, you are unclear.
I think clarity is saying: a simple idea that explains all human motivation for ever is “incentives”. Although I personally am not sure that it is wrong.
Thank you. I worry that I am becoming some sort of scientistic mystic. Am I as unclear as Clarity?
If you are unclear; at least you do it with more words.
is a very short post; makes it hard for people who don’t get it to catch up. (no offence: I believe he meant it to be short to follow the rule of “simple ideas”)
No.
OK, I get it, thanks Elo.
If you believe that people don’t respond to incentives, then we don’t live in the same world.
If you believe that people only respond to monetary incentives, then we don’t live in the same world.
The job is to work out which world we live in. Incentives is probably a big part of that!
Incentives in and of themselves explain a relationship between the incentive and a referent thing incentivised by it. It’s like saying ‘force’ in physics, which is incompatible within a framework of mutually exclusive but comprehensively exhaustive concepts which make up a interdisciplinary modelling kit for the world, but people were cool with it (till Einstein changed that) because of their narrow focus.
I’m too stupid to understand this. Could you dumb it down for me? Are you saying that the idea of force in physics was not simple, or good, or useful, or that it didn’t explain a lot of things? Or have I got the wrong end of your stick?
Force in physics was simple, good and useful, but less simply, good and useful that relativity, which doesn’t require ‘force’ as an explanatory mechanism because it doesn’t explain a lot of things.