OK this one is pretty minor but I can’t resist:
Imagine you were hungry and came across a Capitalist Food joint. You’ve never heard of them before, but their pitch is that you should like them because they are capitalist, and all the best food comes from capitalists. E.g., McDonalds. Which is in fact true.
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2022/07/brand-truth-narrowly.html
I knew it! Italian grandmothers are only in it for the money!
he managed to last 5 paragraphs before mentioning prediction markets im proud of him
More evidence that these dopes obsessed with prediction markets have never heard of sports gambling - from the comments:
Uh, dinguses, there’s an active “prediction market” for the NFL draft and has been for years. Maybe take a look at that and other sports gambling and the tons and tons of data associated with it and see how well that’s doing before you decide to set this up for every other aspect of modern life?
This (and the following up part) makes no sense, like non branded food doesnt exist.
And the whole weird focus on food brand associations makes me think that the title of the blog is very very personal indeed.
Eating at a place which serves skimmed food doesnt suddenly make the food taste different after they tell you it was skimmed.
(And yeah this is another post in the recent trend of the Rationalists giving up in their stated goals of making people more Rational and just working with peoples irriational impulses to promote their shit, good job you discovered marketing from first principles)
He says the generic non-profit food place (which is?) probably doesn’t make food as good as the capitalist food place (McDonald’s)
Synthesis: Robin Hanson does not know any Sikhs
Siri, what’s the opposite of Anthony Bourdain?
I wish that, just once, we wouldn’t
Overcoming Bias: Why the status quo is the best
A solution here I think is: application-specific prediction market brands.