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author: niplav, created: 2023-12-21, modified: 2024-09-22, language: english, status: finished, importance: 4, confidence: certain Changing credit assignment mechanisms hurt the people who currently benefit most from the current credit allocation. They are also usually highest in the status hierarchy, so they can effectively resist such change. I collect some examples of that dynamic. In a recent episode of The Filan Cabinet, Oliver Habryka elaborates on a very interesting social pattern: If you have a community with high status people, and try to introduce clearer metrics of performance into that community, high status individuals in the community will strongly resist those metrics because they have an asymmetric downside. If they perform well on the metric, they at best stay in their position, but if they perform poorly, they lose status. Since they are at least a little bit unsure about their performance on the metric relative to others, they can only lose. Daniel Filan: So let's go

home niplav author: niplav, created: 2023-12-21, modified: 2024-09-22, language: english, status: finished, importance: 4, confidence: certain Changing credit assignment mechanisms hurt the people who currently benefit most from the current credit allocation. They are also usually highest in the status hierarchy, so they can effectively resist such change. I collect some examples of that dynamic. Contents Examples of the Dynamic Ignaz Semmelweis and Hospitals Intellectuals Resist IQ FPTP and Two-Party Systems Prediction Markets Software Development Effort Estimation The Rationality Community T

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