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Scoundrel 10 months ago
Hmm, that's a really interesting way of thinking about it. I would call all of those examples "manipulation" rather than an incentive, but I think I can understand your usage. Do you think unsought incentives on Nostr are good? For example, suppose that Subway gave lots of sats to someone who said "I'm going to Subway with my friends right now!" Do you think that would make third parties more interested in eating at Subway against their intentions? And do you think such a zap would be good even if it did?

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Primate 10 months ago
I think unsought incentives are unavoidable because they work to funnel human energy in ways that are not necessarily aligned with the target-customer-enduser-zappee’s conscious intention. Whether it would be considered “good” or not is open to negotiation on the free market of ideas, which, as a value assignment, is subjectively relative. Are the ways in which Duolingual learners’ habits get played through emotion good for them? Yes, in a utilitarian sense but no, in the broader Kantian sense of self ownership.