It’s an interesting framework, I can see it being useful.
I think it’s more useful when you consider both high-decoupling and low-decoupling to be failure modes, more specifically: when one is dominant and the other is neglected, you reliably end up with inacccurate beliefs.
You went over the mistakes of low-decouplers in your post, and provided a wonderful example of a high-decoupler mistake too!
High decouplers will notice that, holding preferences constant, offering people an additional choice cannot make them worse off. People will only take the choice if its better than any of their current options
Aside fromhttps://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/choices-are-really-bad/there’s also the consideration of what choice I offer you, or how I frame the choice (see Kahneman’s stuff). And that’s just considering it from the individual psychological level, but there are social/cultural levers and threads to pull here too.
I think the optimal functioning of this process is cyclical with both high decoupling phases and highly integrated phases, and the measure of balance is something like ‘this isn’t obviously wrong in either context’.
It’s an interesting framework, I can see it being useful.
I think it’s more useful when you consider both high-decoupling and low-decoupling to be failure modes, more specifically: when one is dominant and the other is neglected, you reliably end up with inacccurate beliefs.
You went over the mistakes of low-decouplers in your post, and provided a wonderful example of a high-decoupler mistake too!
Aside from https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/choices-are-really-bad/ there’s also the consideration of what choice I offer you, or how I frame the choice (see Kahneman’s stuff).
And that’s just considering it from the individual psychological level, but there are social/cultural levers and threads to pull here too.
I think the optimal functioning of this process is cyclical with both high decoupling phases and highly integrated phases, and the measure of balance is something like ‘this isn’t obviously wrong in either context’.