A radical is someone who, for many different values of X, is on the far-left or far-right of the social behavior curve for X.
“Select how radical you’ll be at random”.
I don’t see why being stubborn about one value of X should have to be correlated with being stubborn about any other value of X, so I’m confused about why there would have to be capital-R “Radicals” who are stubborn about everything, as opposed to having a relatively even division where everybody is radical about some issues and not about others. Being radical can be pretty exhausting, and it seems like a good idea to distribute that workload. I mean, I’m sure that people do tend to have natural styles, but you’re also talking about which style a person should consciously adopt.
Why not either randomly choose how radical you’re going to be on each specific issue independent of all others, or even try to be more radical about issues where you are most sure your view of the ideal condition is correct?
How does all of this hold up when there’s a lot of hysteresis in how people behave? I can think of lots of cases where I’d expect that to happen. Maybe some people just never change the random initial state of their video...
Yeah—to clarify, in the last section I meant “select how radical you’ll be for that issue at random.” In the previous section I used “radical” to refer to a kind of person (observing that some people do have a more radical disposition than others), but yeah, I agree that there’s nothing wrong with choosing your level of radicalism independently for different issues!
And yeah, there are many ways this model is incomplete. Status quo bias is one. Another is that some decisions have more than two outcomes. A third is that really this should be modeled as a network, where people are influenced by their neighbors (and I’m assuming that the network is a giant complete graph). A simple answer to your question might be “draw a separate curve for ‘keep camera on if default state is on’ and ‘turn camera on if default state is off’”, but there’s more to say here for sure.
I don’t see why being stubborn about one value of X should have to be correlated with being stubborn about any other value of X, so I’m confused about why there would have to be capital-R “Radicals” who are stubborn about everything, as opposed to having a relatively even division where everybody is radical about some issues and not about others. Being radical can be pretty exhausting, and it seems like a good idea to distribute that workload. I mean, I’m sure that people do tend to have natural styles, but you’re also talking about which style a person should consciously adopt.
Why not either randomly choose how radical you’re going to be on each specific issue independent of all others, or even try to be more radical about issues where you are most sure your view of the ideal condition is correct?
How does all of this hold up when there’s a lot of hysteresis in how people behave? I can think of lots of cases where I’d expect that to happen. Maybe some people just never change the random initial state of their video...
Yeah—to clarify, in the last section I meant “select how radical you’ll be for that issue at random.” In the previous section I used “radical” to refer to a kind of person (observing that some people do have a more radical disposition than others), but yeah, I agree that there’s nothing wrong with choosing your level of radicalism independently for different issues!
And yeah, there are many ways this model is incomplete. Status quo bias is one. Another is that some decisions have more than two outcomes. A third is that really this should be modeled as a network, where people are influenced by their neighbors (and I’m assuming that the network is a giant complete graph). A simple answer to your question might be “draw a separate curve for ‘keep camera on if default state is on’ and ‘turn camera on if default state is off’”, but there’s more to say here for sure.