Mortgage Origination Pre-2008
Originators paid on volume, not on default rates.
"Liar loans were a perfectly rational career strategy."
What is Mortgage Origination Pre-2008? Originators paid on volume, not on default rates. Risk passed downstream creates a market for bad loans.
Subprime mortgage origination boom.
Risk passed downstream creates a market for bad loans.
Originator skin-in-the-game requirements.
Flip the incentive. Watch the side-effect move.
Originators paid on volume, not on default rates. Caught in the wild: Subprime mortgage origination boom.
In the room: Risk passed downstream creates a market for bad loans.
Counter-move from the Atlas: Originator skin-in-the-game requirements.
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- Who benefits when Mortgage Origination Pre-2008 persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of mortgage origination pre-2008.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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- Layer 2Behavioral Economics
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- Layer 9Persuasion & Behavior Design
What is making this behavior easier than the alternative?
- Layer 11Economics & Mechanism Design
Who pays, who is paid, and what does the price signal hide?
- Layer 15AI & Alignment
What proxy reward is the AI optimizing — and what is it ignoring?
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Reward learning, habit formation, anticipation, craving, action selection. Habits live here. So do addictions. Variable rewards train this circuit faster than fixed ones.
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Government rescues of failing institutions privatize gains and socialize losses.
Issuers pay raters who compete for the highest ratings.
Quarterly earnings drive quarterly behavior.
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Testing model behavior on hypothetical alternate inputs.
Prior solutions block better new ones.
A rough calculation using order-of-magnitude reasoning.
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Prefer the simplest explanation consistent with the evidence.
Cache common prompt prefixes to reduce cost and latency.
Reflexively rejecting evidence that contradicts established norms.
Lifetime appointments protect academic freedom but can dampen experimentation in teaching.
Earn-outs designed to retain founders often demotivate the team they bought.
Attention is the most contested resource in modern work.
Donors penalize 'overhead'; charities under-invest in capacity.