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Hanlon‘s Razor is one of the most useful tools in the heuristics toolbox. My only quibble with this essay is your use of the word „even“ in the sentence „Even poorly structured incentives…“. In my experience „poorly structured incentives“ are the root cause of most of the malign, bad and destructive outcomes in our society and we are notoriously bad at setting well aligned ones. That would be worth an essay all of its own…Tennyson and Hanlon in one week - you‘re on a roll!

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