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Policing costs
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying policing-costs. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782192-015 : As members constantly probe the edge of acceptable behavior, policing the rules becomes more expensive, the rules become divorced from the shared goals, and relationships become brittle and formal ins
- 3782192-020 : Governing by transcendental values, ideals that everyone understands but no one can concretely attain, reduces members' motivation to probe the limits of acceptable behavior and therefore reduces the
- 3782193-012 : When a law is written down rigorously, specifying precisely what is acceptable and unacceptable, competition obliges people to find the most efficient behavior available inside those rules, which is t
- 3782193-013 : Because a transcendental value is by definition not rigorously formalizable, people organizing around an eternally unobtainable ideal without clear boundaries are less likely to probe the boundaries o
- 3782203-018 : Reputation policing games explain why a business will rationally tolerate a small level of theft when policing costs more than the loss, which also explains the rationality of long-term parasitic and
- 3782210-003 : Strict legal enforcement is an inefficient remedy for opportunism because every unit of energy devoted to policing is energy that could instead have been used to cooperate productively.
- 6269518-016 : Because policing protocol deviants is expensive, it is individually more efficient to assume others comply and skip policing, which yields a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in which eventually fewer