That’s fair. There are definitely norms I think help overall (or situationally help) that I wish didn’t help overall because I don’t like them. For example tolerance of late arrivals. I hate it, and also if we didn’t tolerate it my most valuable group would never have existed.
That’s strategic voting as opposed to voting-as-survey. What if nobody wants cookies, but most people vote for them in expectation that others would appreciate them? Voting-as-survey should be able to sort this out, but strategic voting suffers from confirmation bias. Everyone is bringing cookies, so apparently people like them. But with strategic voting this is begging the question, there might have been no attempt to falsify the assumption.
Thus I don’t even see how it can be clear whether the cookies norm is better for the group that the no-cookies norm, and so whether the strategic vote should support the cookies. (In the case of cookies specifically, getting eaten is some sort of survey, but in general strategic voting breeds confusion.)
That’s fair. There are definitely norms I think help overall (or situationally help) that I wish didn’t help overall because I don’t like them. For example tolerance of late arrivals. I hate it, and also if we didn’t tolerate it my most valuable group would never have existed.
That’s strategic voting as opposed to voting-as-survey. What if nobody wants cookies, but most people vote for them in expectation that others would appreciate them? Voting-as-survey should be able to sort this out, but strategic voting suffers from confirmation bias. Everyone is bringing cookies, so apparently people like them. But with strategic voting this is begging the question, there might have been no attempt to falsify the assumption.
Thus I don’t even see how it can be clear whether the cookies norm is better for the group that the no-cookies norm, and so whether the strategic vote should support the cookies. (In the case of cookies specifically, getting eaten is some sort of survey, but in general strategic voting breeds confusion.)