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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 👀

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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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Eating healthy is boring but it can extend your lifespan so basically there are no advantages
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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
Hey ! We can't call them "cis", it's "differently gendered" now
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If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokémon (wrong answers only)
Boy, Howdy
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If I knew how to headbutt the concept of "writing", I would do it
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For God's sake we all know postdocs aren't real, stop trying to scare PhD students with superstitious nonsense.
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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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Turning up to the "No Kings" protest with my "Actually maybe you need a king" sign.
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now imagining a reform uk badge on a wasp
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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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
Didn't except to ever have to say that, but uh

Hope the porn was great blud
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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
IT IS STILL TIME TO REPENT

NOT FOR LONG THOUGH

FOR THE END IS NIGH
HAVE YOU PERFORMED YOUR DAILY GENUFLECTIONS TO THE GOTH GIRLS IN THE SKY
HAVE YOU PERFORMED YOUR DAILY GENUFLECTIONS TO THE GOTH GIRLS IN THE SKY
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one way i’ve found to deal with rejection is to throw yourself into a river and come back as a vengeful ghost