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by atian 1882 days ago
Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.

> we can certainly draw an adverse inference from the behavior of the Chinese government.

> it is assumed that that evidence would have been unfavorable to the party which concealed or destroyed it.

This is a good model only within the US sphere of influence. Outside, you might as well be shooting darts as people play by other incentives.

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Why would people outside the US sphere of influence conceal evidence that was favorable to them?
I think we can draw parallels from "Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work"

https://research.google/pubs/pub49953/