Honglin Bao<p>New preprint (provocation?)</p><p>📜"𝐃𝐨 '𝐛𝐚𝐝' 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 '𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝' 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬?"📜<br>with Misha Teplitskiy<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06190" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2304.06190</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Quick explainer👇 <a href="https://twitter.com/HonglinB/status/1648382310155448320" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/HonglinB/status/16</span><span class="invisible">48382310155448320</span></a><br>When assessing the pros/cons of a policy, behavior, or norm, one compelling approach is to imagine a counterfactual world without it. This exercise reveals that even well-intentioned norms may not always result in positive outcomes <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/complexsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexsystems</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AgentBasedModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgentBasedModels</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/citation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scientometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientometrics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/heuristics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heuristics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mattheweffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mattheweffect</span></a></p>