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- Comment on Oopsies 5 days ago:
It’s a decent book overall. If you’re interested in the theory behind choice architecture it’s worth a read.
But yeah, read it a couple months ago and remembered it specifically addressed this question.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 days ago:
In fact, the truth is surprisingly simple: much depends merely on what happens if people don’t make a decision, something called a no-action default, or simply a default. The countries on the left of the graph ask you to choose to be an organ donor, and those on the right ask you to choose not to be a donor. If you do not make an active choice, you are, by default, a nondonor in Germany and a donor in Austria.
Dan and I wanted to understand this. We started by asking a sample of Americans whether they would be donors or not by presenting them with a choice on a webpage. One group, the opt-in condition, was told that they had just moved to a new state where the default was not to be an organ donor, and they were given a chance to change that status with a simple click of a mouse. A second group, the opt-out condition, saw an identical scenario, except the default was to be a donor. They could indicate that they did not want to be a donor with a mouse click. The third group was simply required to choose; they needed to check one box or the other to go on to the next page. This neutral ques-tion, with nothing prechecked, is a mandated-choice condi-tion; it’s important, because it shows what people do when they are forced to choose.
The effect of the default was remarkably strong: when they had to opt in, only 42 percent agreed to donate, but when they had to opt out, 82 percent agreed to donate. The most interesting result was from those forced to make a choice: 79 percent said they would be a donor, almost the same percentage of donors as in the opt-out condition. The only difference between the group that was asked to opt out and those who were forced to make a choice was that we forced the respondents in the mandated-choice condition to pick either box before they could go forward. It shows that if forced to make a choice, most participants would become donors. Otherwise, if they were given a default, most simply took it, whatever it was.
From Elements of Choice by Eric Johnson
It’s more complicated than the one example, and he covers it further, but as a rough guideline, it looks like forced choice and opt out are similar in this case. Which would make sense because the opposition is mostly religious and strict religious people are more motivated to opt out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s really weird to include ~500% additional monthly contributions into the math.
- Comment on Microsoft made me sign in on their Xbox Accessories app to update the firmware on my controller 2 weeks ago:
Sony does hardware features well pretty much across the board. It completely changes the experience without dominating it.
Third parties seem to either halfass it or ignore it.
- Comment on Microsoft made me sign in on their Xbox Accessories app to update the firmware on my controller 2 weeks ago:
Almost every game that uses the speaker is even more annoying.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be pieces of shit and you won’t owe refunds.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
It runs with higher priveleges than you have and can see anything that happens on your computer.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Adding kernel malware after the fact should entitle every single owner who requests one to a full refund no matter how long has passsed.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
The weirdest part to me is thinking the timeless omnipotent god that the Bible explicitly says considers a thousand years less than nothing actually literally meant that he created everything in what we’d perceive as 7 days when talking to whatever arbitrary scribe wrote down the creation myth for him.
- Comment on [Shams] Brooklyn Nets are waiving former No. 7 pick Killian Hayes 4 weeks ago:
The level between college and the pros (in pretty much every sport) is massive. Being able to succeed with limited body construction against other people with similar limitations is a good sign, but professional sports are grown ass men, many of whom spend 5, 6 figures on assistance optimizing their bodies, and playing a much more advanced game with much less room for error.
Draft picks inherently have to be projections of a pretty serious amount of future development just to be playable at all. You basically need a guy to double his capability or whatever to be relevant.
- Comment on Anon reads a book for school 4 weeks ago:
I read everything I could get my hands on (and still do), except the shit they assigned us for school.
I get “historically relevant” classics are a thing, but students don’t want to read most of them because they’re brutally formal and none of them can relate to them. It’s a chore primarily because the curriculum is all old and because burying 500 layers of symbolism into a story isn’t how people write any more (because it sucks).
If more reading assignments were stories written to actually entertain kids and just asking the kids to put themselves in the character’s shoes and “what would you do”, maybe they wouldn’t hate reading so much.
- Comment on First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility 5 weeks ago:
GOG is fine and probably won’t interfere, but a paid plug-in for Epic who very well might just arbitrarily break shit because they can seems like a bad idea.
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 5 weeks ago:
You used to unlock cool stuff by playing the game.
They removed that whole loop of discovering cool stuff by doing cool things and replaced it with cash grubbing.
- Comment on Does alcohol expire? Specifically whiskey? 5 weeks ago:
I love crown black. It’s definitely the cheapest I can buy without feeling gross the next day after a couple drinks.
- Comment on How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library 5 weeks ago:
So because there’s an ad on my fucking remote I accidentally looked at the pricing the other day. $23 a month for 4K/more than 2 screens.
It’s within a couple bucks of the Disney/Hulu/ESPN bundle with like 10% of the content.
- Comment on Ship in Need of Repairs Has Explosive Cargo, but No Dock | The MV Ruby has meandered around Europe’s northwestern coastline under a cloud of suspicion over its thousands of tons of Russian fertilizer. 5 weeks ago:
The fact that Malta (who the ship is registered under, to a Maltese company) won’t let it dock seems like plenty for everyone else not to be comfortable with it.
- Comment on Is Malcolm Gladwell out of ideas? 5 weeks ago:
He’s OK for getting a taster of ideas, but he pretty regularly takes his presentation way beyond what the evidence actually supports. He’s a decent storyteller, telling stories about science, but without the scientist in him to actually base his presentation on what the actual evidence actually supports. Or, barring that, the rigor to at least give a clear indication of what’s evidence based and what’s speculation.
- Comment on Lords of the Fallen 2 is coming in 2026; new details revealed 1 month ago:
I really liked the mechanics of the first game.
It felt like most non-fromsoft clones in terms of the map, though. No one else manages the feel of opening up the map like they do. Elden Ring is much more focused on the open world, so it approaches the use of space differently, but the way you can look back over some areas and see what you just spent hours battling through gives a similar feel of intentionality to the map design.
Lords of the Fallen not giving that feel is part of why I didn’t spend as much time with it as the combat quality would imply.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
The optimization problems are the game. Figuring out builds you like is the point.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 1 month ago:
Maybe.
But until there’s an alternative that isn’t outright disrespectful with how complete and utter dogshit it is it’s hard to say that for sure.
Inertia matters. But so does the fact that no one has bothered putting the work in to not be a trainwreck.
- Comment on Three Iranian actresses (Niousha Akhshi, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki) have been forced into exile by Iran's government after starring in 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig,' which won major Cannes awards 1 month ago:
Literally for not covering their heads.
- Comment on Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement 2 months ago:
PS4 Pro was still obscenely underpowered. Jaguar was terrible at PS4’s original launch, and the boost on the Pro was marginal because it was still the same terrible underlying design.
Going into the PS5 pro, everyone projected this pricing, because it’s actually modern hardware and their costs have went up instead of down.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris | Her Instagram post backing the vice president came shortly after Ms. Harris and former President Donald Trump had stepped off the debate stage. 2 months ago:
Has she endorsed other candidates, or is this completely self inflicted by Trump found that fake endorsement nonsense?
- Comment on Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s worth it, especially if you already own a PS5.
But what did people think it was going to cost?
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 2 months ago:
This is absurd.
Typing “Logitech unifying software download” in the address bar is massively less effort than navigating their shitshow of a site. It’s not a sign of inexperience in any way.
Allowing an ad with any third party download is an insane policy, and it is not a legitimate practice at all to use an unreliable third party with a well deserved bad reputation to download software in place of the manufacturer.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 2 months ago:
That’s disgusting.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
I straighten them because they annoy me lol.
- Comment on Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? 2 months ago:
I played like 900 hours of D1 with the same or mostly the same gear because shooting stuff in the face felt better than anything else I’ve ever played.
The actual gunplay is really good. It’s just killed by all the other shit.
- Comment on Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? 2 months ago:
I could pop cabal heads with [insert high impact scout, bonus if firefly] for days. Hell, I pretty much did on D1. Then D2, in addition to all the other bad design stuff to satisfy live service, also decided they wanted to try to dictate your gun choice in certain game modes with all the bullshit seasonal modifiers on untouchable enemies without specific perks.
All I want to do is run strikes on the basic races by myself. But they can’t milk me for money like that.
- Comment on Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? 2 months ago:
Because the gunplay is really good. I never had a shred of interest in the story.
I don’t still play because the level and enemy design tanked when they went into expansion treadmill mode, but “a path forward” was never something I cared even a little bit about. “The path forward” is what killed my fun.
