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the invisible string that makes humans dance, sometimes off a cliff.
means Something — usually a reward or punishment — that motivates a person to act or behave in a particular way.
from From Latin incentivum, 'that which sets the tune,' from incinere, 'to sound an instrument,' built from in- ('on') plus canere ('to sing'). Originally an incentive was musical — the note that started the song, the trumpet that called you forward — before it drifted into the figurative sense of anything that strikes up action in the soul.
- cobra effect
- bounties for dead cobras spawned cobra farms in Delhi
- root meaning
- from Latin for setting a tune, igniting song
- perverse twist
- rewards often produce exactly what you didn't want
- goodhart's law
- a measured target stops being a good measure
- brain wiring
- dopamine fires for the wanting, not the having
apollo program moon race — us-ussr competition that landed 12 humans on the moon between 1969-1972
netflix production bonuses — pays writers and directors extra based on viewership metrics and subscriber growth
carbon credits trading — european union emissions trading system created financial rewards for reducing co2 emissions since 2005