On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:49:12AM -0800, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Roger Dingledine (a...@mit.edu): > > > Six big things I did in November: > > > > 1) Attended the NSF PI meeting for our new grant (joint with Georgia > > Tech and Princeton). Met dozens of professors and renewed connections > > to dozens more. One standout: I met a nice economist who framed our > > exit relay funding debate as an "if you" vs "now that" game. When you > > incentivize people with "if you X, I'll Y", they behave differently than > > when it's "now that you've X, I'll Y". > > Does this theory have a better name? > > Did he describe the phenomenon in any more detail?
I asked for more details, and here's the answer: """ Check out Daniel Pink's book titled "drive." The first one is called "If-then" reward structure and the other one is called "Now-that" reward structure. Hope that helps. """ Apparently there's a TED talk that is a pretty good stand-in for the book. --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
