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"To be clear, I think we'd want to rigorously separate sexual performance from research performance and not get those confused into one metric over a person - I'd honestly expect both you, and the Chelish government, to be pissed about the performance hit to world GDP if I got confused that way.  That said, it'd be conventional practice in dath ilan to pay people proportionally to their inferred output, not - whether people are doing their best?  It's a lot easier to measure whether somebody is succeeding than know whether they're really doing their best, and there's an implied incentive for people to be - weaker, for their best to be worse - if you only ask them to do their best."

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"To be clear, I think we'd want to rigorously separate sexual performance from research performance and not get those confused into one metric over a person - I'd honestly expect both you, and the Chelish government, to be pissed about the performance hit to world GDP if I got confused that way.  That said, it'd be conventional practice in dath ilan to pay people proportionally to their apparent output, not - whether people are doing their best?  It's a lot easier to measure whether somebody is succeeding than know whether they're really doing their best, and there's an implied incentive for people to be - weaker, for their best to be worse - if you only ask them to do their best."

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"To be clear, I think we'd want to rigorously separate sexual performance from research performance and not get those confused into one metric over a person - I'd honestly expect both you, and the Chelish government, to be pissed about the performance hit to world GDP if I got confused that way.  That said, it'd be conventional practice in dath ilan to pay people proportionally to their apparent output, not - whether people are doing their best?  It's a lot easier to measure how well somebody is doing, than to know whether they're really doing their best.  And there's an implied incentive that seems really awful to me, for people to be - weaker, for their best to be worse - if you only ask them to do their best.  Even very Good people in dath ilan wouldn't do that, it's not Lawful."

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"To be clear, I think we'd want to rigorously separate sexual performance from research performance and not get those confused into one metric over a person - I'd honestly expect both you, and the Chelish government, to be pissed about the performance hit to world GDP if I got confused that way.  That said, it'd be conventional practice in dath ilan to pay people proportionally to their apparent output, not - whether people are doing their best?  It's a lot easier to measure how well somebody is doing, than to know whether they're really doing their best.  And there's an implied incentive that seems really awful to me, for people to be - weaker, for their best to be worse - if you only pay them to do their best.  Even very Good people in dath ilan wouldn't do that, it's not Lawful."

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"To be clear, I think we'd want to rigorously separate sexual performance from research performance and not get those confused into one metric over a person - I'd honestly expect both you, and the Chelish government, to be pissed about the performance hit to world GDP if I got confused that way.  That said, it'd be conventional practice in dath ilan to pay people proportionally to their apparent output, not - whether people are doing their best?  It's a lot easier to measure how well somebody is doing, than to know whether they're really doing their best.  And there's an implied incentive that seems really awful to me, for people to be - weaker, for their best to be worse - if you pay them to do their best.  Even very Good people in dath ilan wouldn't do that, it's not Lawful."

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"To be clear, I think we'd want to rigorously separate sexual performance from research performance and not get those confused into one metric over a person - I'd frankly expect both you, and the Chelish government, to be pissed about the performance hit to world GDP if I got confused that way.  That said, it'd be conventional practice in dath ilan to pay people proportionally to their apparent output, not - whether people are doing their best?  It's a lot easier to measure how well somebody is doing, than to know whether they're really doing their best.  And there's an implied incentive that seems really awful to me, for people to be - weaker, for their best to be worse - if you pay them to do their best.  Even very Good people in dath ilan wouldn't do that, it's not Lawful."

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"To be clear, I think we'd want to rigorously separate sexual performance from research performance and not get those confused into one metric over a person - I'd frankly expect both you, and the Chelish government, to be pissed about the performance hit to the world economy if I got confused that way.  That said, it'd be conventional practice in dath ilan to pay people proportionally to their apparent output, not - whether people are doing their best?  It's a lot easier to measure how well somebody is doing, than to know whether they're really doing their best.  And there's an implied incentive that seems really awful to me, for people to be - weaker, for their best to be worse - if you pay them to do their best.  Even very Good people in dath ilan wouldn't do that, it's not Lawful."