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by TeMPOraL 2967 days ago
> Social mores are crude heuristics. Explicit prices can do better.

Social mores are actually huge efficiency boosters for humans. They remove the overhead associated with coordination, transactions and ensuring trust.

I understand that a lot of these don't scale to cities of millions and civilizations of billions, but some do, and we shouldn't be quick to replace them with the "newest and shiniest" (essentially replicating them at scale by burning energy).