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This is the most brilliant post of the archives I've somehow missed. But it lends weight to the idea I had one day that Robin Hanson sees Eliezer Yudkowsky as sort of an embarrassing younger brother who should be kept at a distance so as to avoid unfortunate association. I think that is unfair if I'm right.

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I really think a sufficient answer is that construal level theory is still very new and just not well-known enough for that to happen, and where it is known it's confounded by how difficult it is to get people to follow up on commitments. C.f. the loan market and its many problems.

But in any case doesn't the credit card industry do exactly this? "Buy now, spend later!"?

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