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*Great to have all those modern services on tap in one place, I reckon #perverseincentive *Go "orchestrate a fleet of Claudes," have 'em round up all that sticky stuff without getting any on you

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rbvrr34edl5ddpuwcubjiost/post/3mcqwymoync2f

Buy-to-lease should live in a second tier market, that only exists when buy-to-reside isn't taking priority.

If houses aren't on the market for more than a few weeks it's far too overheated. Our local advertisers are basically publishing the majority of housing stock as "Under Offer", but if you watch closely a "For Lease" sign often pops up in the following weeks.

#HousingCrisis #PerverseIncentive #InvestmentVehiclePolicy

Computer-generated video voiceovers on Amazon reviews might be used to taylor accents or overcome language barriers. These sound like altered human voices to my ear, uncanny.

It seems like a failure as a sales aid, but that's likely not the point if Amazon rewards reviewers for quantity and frequency.

https://www.amazon.com/shop/esolaraross

Like the #PerverseIncentive of MMORPG gold miners decades ago:

https://www.pcgamer.com/north-korea-deploys-squad-of-mmo-gold-farmers-to-fund-regime/.

https://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/45348/the-life-of-an-asian-mmorpg-farmer

https://www.neoseeker.com/news/4740-wage-slaves-mmo-games-and-huge-profits/

https://www.metafilter.com/43300/MMORPG-Sweatshops

@jk This perverse incentive wouldn't be nearly as strong if there were a way to electronically pay a website's operator an amount on the order of 0.25 EUR or USD. Instead, payment processors' fee per transaction incentivized a package deal: buy one article for $3 bundled with a month of access to all other articles on that site (and no other sites). Ad targeting tech promised a workaround for lack of micropayments, but its perverse incentives were even worse.

#subscription #paywall #micropayment #WebMonetization #PackageDeal #AdTech #PerverseIncentive

"When the IMO issued its new regulations, says Nøklebye, shipping companies essentially had two options: switch from the default heavy fuel oil to more expensive low-sulfur fuel, or install a ship scrubber—a device that sprays ocean water onto exhaust gases before they leave the engine, capturing the harmful SOX gases as a sulfuric acid solution."

#PerverseIncentive

In the Baltic Sea, Ship Scrubbers Have Caused Millions of Dollars Worth of Environmental Damage
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/in-the-baltic-sea-ship-scrubbers-have-caused-millions-of-dollars-in-environmental-damage/

Have you heard the theoretical origin story of the Cobra Effect, which is a Perverse Incentive?

In colonized India, the Brits were concerned about the vast population of cobras. So they offered a bounty on them.

Indians gamed the system, breeding cobras and selling them for the bounty. When the Brits found out, breeders released them into the wild. This inadvertent effect is the Cobra Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

#Psychology #CobraEffect #PerverseIncentive #India #UK #Colonization

⬆️ @SteveThompson

>> 3 More Nations Roll Out Red Carpet to #Hamas

Hamas and #Likud have a #perverseIncentive to keep the war in the #MiddleEast going, at least for now.

NEITHER wants it to be over. #Netanyahu has been signaling transparently that he wants #Biden to lose because #Trump would give #Bibi more latitude in “clearing” #Gaza upon his re-election.

Many independent voters in US also want that outcome because #US & #UK also want to put pressure on Netanyahu ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@Alon/111852962999108976

⬆️ @kravietz

Both #Netanyahu and #Haniyeh have a #perverseIncentive to maintain #permanentStateOfWar in #Gaza and both are collectively responsible, with #Palestinians being the losers. #inTheirName

ICC prosecutor said that he had “reasonable grounds to believe” that #Sinwar, #Deif and #Haniyeh were responsible for “#warCrimes and #crimesAgainstHumanity” — including “the killing of hundreds of #Israeli civilians in attacks perpetrated by #Hamas.”

@israel @palestine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/world/middleeast/icc-hamas-netanyahu.html?smid=tw-share

⬆️ @marius_gs

As for what I believe:

There are no heroes in this war.

#Hamas and #Netanyahu have a #perverseIncentive to maintain a #permanentStateOfWar and #Palestinians are the sore losers to let them fight #inTheirName only.

These are long running hashtags that you can click through to learn about my beliefs in this conflict

⬆️ @specked

The crime was still cheating people out of 10 zeros.

If after a bank robbery, all of the cash is recovered, the robbery is not nullified

If punishment were inversely commensurate with amount recovered, the #perverseIncentive would be to hit big, return 99%, and then serve only 1% of the sentence, because even 1% of a ridiculously large amount initially robbed would be large enough to live a cushy life after a small (commuted) sentence, no?

@ceejbot @PragmaticAndy Extremely relatable. And it gives me another question to ask before taking a job ("Who, if anyone, benefits from issue X that you want to hire me to solve."). Thank you.

Recent new questions in my arsenal are "How long have you wanted to or been trying to change X?" Followed by "Why have you not changed X already?"

I tend to agree with you: there'a a damn good reason X hasn't changed and it's usually because someone(s) are benefiting from it somehow. #PerverseIncentive, anyone?

@uspolitics

Like #Taliban in #Afghanistan, #FarRight #Conservatives are running #educators out of #Idaho for teaching #kids about #world #cultures and #UnitedNations. Same in #Florida.

They love the #poorlyEducated but hate their #educated #constituents.

They have a #perverseIncentive to keep their state #ignorant & #uneducated because that's the only way they can lock their hold on #power, not by keeping or welcoming #smart people in.

#Republican #GOP #MAGA #USA

https://truthout.org/articles/idahos-teacher-of-the-year-winner-leaving-state-following-right-wing-harassment/

Looking back years, the attack on the web by the likes of #TheBigs becomes *quite* obvious.

We need to use ways of mitigating #DDOS attacks that don't involve yielding to #CAGEMAFIA (the terrorists in this scenario).

What if fediverse instances and apps, for example, had a built-in I2P #communication strategy during #connectivity issues?

Yielding to TheBigs is so, so wrong. We believe any website can remove the #perverseIncentive for them to attack by including a fallback to I2P.

Thoughts?

I wonder what would happen if #news organizations were required to be non-profit in order to call themselves that. Maybe they'd be a little more #impartial if we could get rid of that #PerverseIncentive.

Same goes for #AcademicJournals.