[Terr_]

> 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...

[themafia]

So the meaning of what I said was slightly obscured but actually easy to apprehend?

oookay.

[Terr_]

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/