HeyJaredUnanticipated Consequences
Why humans don't anticipate the dire effects of decisions they make...
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The Perverse Incentive of the Four Pests Campaign (opens the original)
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We’ve talked about perverse incentives before, and I want to return to that idea again. This time, with the most perverse outcome from a perverse incentive—the acceleration of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961), which became the deadliest famine in recorded history, killing an estimated 15 to 45 million people.*<p class="cta-
Accidental Sanctuaries (opens the original)
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The Korean DMZIn 1953, a group of exhausted negotiators sat down at Panmunjom to end a war, and in doing so, without quite meaning to, they built one of the most important wildlife refuges on the planet. The immediate goal was narrow and grim: to carve a 2.5-mile-wide buffer across 160 miles of the Korean Peninsula, arm both sides of it to the teeth, and make sure neither army crossed it again. Nobody in that room was thinking about cranes.And yet.Thanks for
The Slippery Slope of Technology Design (opens the original)
The Slippery Slope of Technology Design (opens the original)
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