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Thin rules are algorithms and not heuristics. They are specific and not general. They are deterministic and not aspirational. They take out doubt, remove uncertainty, and leave nothing to trust, judgment and interpersonal vulnerability. | Thin rules are algorithms and not heuristics. They are specific and not general. They are deterministic and not aspirational. They take out doubt, remove uncertainty, and leave nothing to trust, judgment and interpersonal vulnerability. | ||
====Knowledge and skills==== | |||
Interviewed on {{Plainlink|https://open.spotify.com/episode/64rvZ3oWqxxSUHmOdOkJT1|Matthew Taylor’s Forward Thinking podcast}}, Daston discusses the relationship of thick rules and thin rules to knowledge and skills, and it occurs that this discussion could be transplanted quite easily onto the agency problem, particularly as it relates to the practice of law. | |||
In essence thick rules require skills to apply them; thin rules demand only the knowledge required to ''obey'' them. The former invites some kind of dynamic interaction between human and environment; the latter is more a case of symbol processing. | |||
This is precisely what an expert agent wants: a customer to whom it can supply rules comma and which the customer need only the wear with all to be able to competently follow, and who is therefore obliged to return to the agent repeatedly for refreshers about different circumstances. The agency model is to give — well, ''sell'' — a man a fish rather offering to teach him to fish. | |||
But at least when it comes to business as usual activity, this kind of specialisation, in Robert Heinlein’s phrase, is for insects. We should aspire to ensure our subject matter experts have skill and not just knowledge when it comes to carrying out [[business as usual]]. Buy the fish, that is to say, only when a special banquet calls for caviar. | |||
====The daycare experiment as an illustration of thin rules==== | ====The daycare experiment as an illustration of thin rules==== | ||
Uri Gneezy’s famous daycare experiment points up the difference nicely.<ref>''A Fine is a Price'', | Uri Gneezy’s famous daycare experiment points up the difference nicely.<ref>''A Fine is a Price'', | ||