← Back to context Comment by themafia 1 day ago We baked the snake charmer problem into the law?Good lord. 3 comments themafia Reply Terr_ 10 hours ago > snake charmer problemPerhaps 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 8 hours ago So the meaning of what I said was slightly obscured but actually easy to apprehend?oookay. Terr_ 4 hours ago 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/
Terr_ 10 hours ago > snake charmer problemPerhaps 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 8 hours ago So the meaning of what I said was slightly obscured but actually easy to apprehend?oookay. Terr_ 4 hours ago 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/
themafia 8 hours ago So the meaning of what I said was slightly obscured but actually easy to apprehend?oookay. Terr_ 4 hours ago 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/
Terr_ 4 hours ago 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/
> 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...
So the meaning of what I said was slightly obscured but actually easy to apprehend?
oookay.
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/