In most of the situations where this is most salient to me, {B} is a social behavior, and {X} and {Y} are punishments that people mete out to people who do not conform to correct {B}-ness.
Notwithstanding this, I note that the model of affordance widths also seems apt for modeling binds in situations where the constraints are imposed by uncaring parts of the universe, rather than the social web.
Take as an example the task of riding a bike, where potential hazards include {X} riding too slowly and falling over and {Y} riding too quickly and losing control. Here, taking speed as {B}, it seems quite natural that different people might have different affordance widths for speed.
What does this buy us? Well, once again we see that the natural advice on “how to ride a bike better” for [A] might be actively misleading for [C], and the best advice for [D] and [E] might be in a different class entirely. So the concept seems like a useful tool for anyone considering how to give advice to other people on how to do things.
(A more complicated example that I’ve been thinking about recently is the task of forming predictions under uncertainty, where {B} is something like “trust your intuition”; generating various kinds of {X} and {Y} are left as an exercise.)
Notwithstanding this, I note that the model of affordance widths also seems apt for modeling binds in situations where the constraints are imposed by uncaring parts of the universe, rather than the social web.
Take as an example the task of riding a bike, where potential hazards include {X} riding too slowly and falling over and {Y} riding too quickly and losing control. Here, taking speed as {B}, it seems quite natural that different people might have different affordance widths for speed.
What does this buy us? Well, once again we see that the natural advice on “how to ride a bike better” for [A] might be actively misleading for [C], and the best advice for [D] and [E] might be in a different class entirely. So the concept seems like a useful tool for anyone considering how to give advice to other people on how to do things.
(A more complicated example that I’ve been thinking about recently is the task of forming predictions under uncertainty, where {B} is something like “trust your intuition”; generating various kinds of {X} and {Y} are left as an exercise.)