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We baked the snake charmer problem into the law? Good lord.

• Terr_ 3mo ago
  > snake charmer problem Perhaps you mean the "cobra effect" [0]? I think that's an apocryphal story about killing snakes, rather than using them in a performance. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#Historicity_of_the_cobra_anecdote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#Historicity...
  • themafia 3mo ago
    So the meaning of what I said was slightly obscured but actually easy to apprehend? oookay.
    • Terr_ 3mo ago
      If I guessed right, then there are probably readers who haven't heard the term/story before [0], or won't make the same jump to recall it. If I guessed wrong, then I wanted to hear about the new thing that resisted a casual web-search. [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/