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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14h

Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality.

This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀

diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

Abstract
We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing
with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange
high-quality goods and services, but then something goes wrong and the quality delivered
is lower than had been promised. While this is perceived as ‘cheating’ by outsiders,
insiders seem not only to adapt to, but to rely on this outcome. They do not resent
low-quality exchanges; in fact, they seem to resent high-quality ones, and are inclined
to put pressure on or avoid dealing with agents who deliver high quality. The equilibrium
among low-quality producers relies on an unusual preference ranking which differs from
that associated with the Prisoners’ Dilemma and similar games, whereby self-interested
rational agents prefer to dish out low quality in exchange for high quality. While equally
‘lazy’, agents in our low-quality worlds are oddly ‘pro-social’: for the advantage of
maximizing their raw self-interest, they prefer to receive low-quality goods and services,
provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They
develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by the intrusion of high quality. We argue that high-quality collective outcomes are
endangered not only by self-interested individual defectors, but by ‘cartels’ of mutually
satisfied mediocrities.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · Sep 3

Eating healthy is boring but it can extend your lifespan so basically there are no advantages

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 17h

"Always Has Been" meme template, with the dialogue

"wait it's all seagulls covered in spices?"
"Always has been"

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 1d

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 17h

my cis woman friends when their weirdly feminine male bestie turned out to be a garden variety woman

article reading rescuers learn that the exotic bird they found was actually a seagull covered in curry

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 17h

Hey ! We can't call them "cis", it's "differently gendered" now

Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 17h

From the meme above, a tiny Wojack head with angel wings and devil horns says "Be not afraid lol"

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 17h

Image Description:
The meme caricatures the "IQ Bell Curve / Midwit" meme by having eclecticly organised bell curves with different characters (mostly Wojacks) stating various positions on the question "what is real?"

Lower-left Bell curve

On the left: a cube with a cross-like symbol says: “Reality is whatever my religion says.”

On the top: a childlike Wojak wearing a beanie propeller hat holds a syringe and sits beside a TV and cube says "Reality is Objective and all is material"

On the right: Another Wojak says: “Reality is whatever science says.”

Lower-right Bell curve (ajointed to the lower-left)

On the left: a peaceful yellow Wojack says “Reality is whatever the machine elves on my DMT trip told me.”

On the top: a dark-hooded Wojack says “Reality is subjective and all is mental.”

On the right: a glowing Wojak with a peaceful expression says: “I don’t know.”

In between the two: a angel-winged Wojack head with demonic horns says “BE NOT AFRAID LOL”

On top of the two lower Bell curves lies another one, with the top of each lower quadrant serving resp. as the left and right Wojack

On top of this curve, a Wojak with a wireframe brain (representing a balanced or nuanced view) says: “Only some things are real!”

A inverted Bell curve meets the middle curve at this point, with the wireframe brain Wojack also serving as his top

On the left, a calm hooded Wojack says "Everything is real"

On the right, a burning depressed Wojack says "Everything is illusion"

A crying girlfriend is hanging in the middle of that curve, saying "Chat, is this real?"

The entire meme is scribbled with red lines, and on white-on-red text in the middle says "The only reality is the Goth Girls in the Sky"

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the 9 faces of holly le fantôme 🏳️‍⚧️🐈‍⬛👻💀🦇🎃 @queenofmars.space · 1d

If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokémon (wrong answers only)

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/knOXppaqBYY?...

Ecstatic Vibrations, Totally Transcendent

YouTube video by Sea Power - Topic

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/Qs0UMGtDFDE

DOWNFVLL & TSUNAMI J. - REGRETS (LYRICS VIDEO)

YouTube video by DOWNFVLL

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 1d

If I knew how to headbutt the concept of "writing", I would do it

Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 1d

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

For God's sake we all know postdocs aren't real, stop trying to scare PhD students with superstitious nonsense.

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thask @thaskleve.bsky.social · 2d

People kept asking how come you say prime factorization is unique when 15 = 3 · 5 = 3 · 5 · 1 = 3 · 5 · 1 · 1 = 3 · 5 · 1 · 1 · 1 = ... until they got so mad they nerfed 1.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Turning up to the "No Kings" protest with my "Actually maybe you need a king" sign.

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LoRo @derloro.bsky.social · 2d

A bunch of grizzled Kiwi fisherman about to embark in a rickety ship blasting this banger.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Su...

Mastodon - Blood And Thunder

YouTube video by Knightmare910

www.youtube.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

now imagining a reform uk badge on a wasp

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't except to ever have to say that, but uh

Hope the porn was great blud

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

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Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 2d

Food: $200
Data: $150
Rent: $800
Porn images: 17 images a day, every day, for 30 years
Utility: $150

Someone who is good at the economy please help me my dating life is dying

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 2d

IT IS STILL TIME TO REPENT

NOT FOR LONG THOUGH

FOR THE END IS NIGH

Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 2d

HAVE YOU PERFORMED YOUR DAILY GENUFLECTIONS TO THE GOTH GIRLS IN THE SKY

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 2d

HAVE YOU PERFORMED YOUR DAILY GENUFLECTIONS TO THE GOTH GIRLS IN THE SKY

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 3d

one way i’ve found to deal with rejection is to throw yourself into a river and come back as a vengeful ghost

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