Avoiding Danger

Offset pain numbness with exponential feedback loops

We adapt to discomfort, so feedback systems need to over-compensate. What risky behaviour should you help people avoid?

Our discomfort for losses wanes as they mount, as we become desensitised to pain. Therefore, we're at much greater risk of not taking appropriate action and, for instance, staying in debt. This benefits nobody.

How might you build on existing feedback loops that warn of creeping, dangerous behaviour?

How might these grow dramatically according to certain threshold levels? Any desensitisation needs to be counter-balanced with an exponentially serious warning system of feedback to prevent undue damage.

Avoiding Danger

Offset pain numbness with exponential feedback loops

We adapt to discomfort, so feedback systems need to over-compensate. What risky behaviour should you help people avoid?

Our discomfort for losses wanes as they mount, as we become desensitised to pain. Therefore, we're at much greater risk of not taking appropriate action and, for instance, staying in debt. This benefits nobody.

How might you build on existing feedback loops that warn of creeping, dangerous behaviour?

How might these grow dramatically according to certain threshold levels? Any desensitisation needs to be counter-balanced with an exponentially serious warning system of feedback to prevent undue damage.

Avoiding Danger

Offset pain numbness with exponential feedback loops

We adapt to discomfort, so feedback systems need to over-compensate. What risky behaviour should you help people avoid?

Our discomfort for losses wanes as they mount, as we become desensitised to pain. Therefore, we're at much greater risk of not taking appropriate action and, for instance, staying in debt. This benefits nobody.

How might you build on existing feedback loops that warn of creeping, dangerous behaviour?

How might these grow dramatically according to certain threshold levels? Any desensitisation needs to be counter-balanced with an exponentially serious warning system of feedback to prevent undue damage.

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