[ExI] Acceleration of the wealth gap

[Darin Sunley]

Also, "crazy" isn't a behavioral model, it's merely an implicit confession
that their behavior confuses you and you don't know how to model their
behavior.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:56 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Acceleration of the wealth gap
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> >…As with so many things, it depends on what you're wanting to use the
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> >…If you're looking to assign blameworthiness in a deontological moral
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> Ja, OK.  If a mob is looting, it is already clear to me they are to
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> >…But if you want to model and predict their behavior, you'll get much
> better results modeling them as poor…
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> I would model them as crazy.  Somebody has a $300k Rolls, and they are
> risking that to grab a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand bucks worth of
> loot?  Does that make sense to you?  Doesn’t to me either.
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