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davorb on Sept 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student ...

I don't think that it's a good idea to build a system on the premise that people have to act nice. It's much better to incentivize them to do so.

dalke on Sept 14, 2012 [–]

True. It's better to build a system which assumes that most people will act nice, knows that incentives can cause them to act worse, and has a fallback mechanism to handle those which don't act nice.

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