Salmon Chaos
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A nice example of an unintended consequence: a restaurant chain in Taiwan offered free all-you-can-eat sushi to anyone who has "gui yu" - the Chinese name for Salmon - in their name. Since changing your name is easy and cheap in Taiwan, people started to change their name so that it includes salmon... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/salmon-chaos-taiwan-people-change-their-names-get-free-sushi-n1261506 -J. - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ |
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It reminds me of the Cobra effect that Russ often uses as an example for unintended consequences: offer an incentive or attractive reward, and people will find a way to get it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect -J. -------- Original message -------- From: Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> Date: 3/22/21 21:51 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> Subject: [FRIAM] Salmon Chaos A nice example of an unintended consequence: a restaurant chain in Taiwan offered free all-you-can-eat sushi to anyone who has "gui yu" - the Chinese name for Salmon - in their name. Since changing your name is easy and cheap in Taiwan, people started to change their name so that it includes salmon... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/salmon-chaos-taiwan-people-change-their-names-get-free-sushi-n1261506 -J. - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ |
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And THIS reminds me of the unforeseen consequences of harboring 0-day vulnerabilities. From: Friam <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm It reminds me of the Cobra effect that Russ often uses as an example for unintended consequences: offer an incentive or attractive reward, and people will find a way to get it -J. -------- Original message -------- From: Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> Date: 3/22/21 21:51 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> Subject: [FRIAM] Salmon Chaos A nice example of an unintended consequence: a restaurant chain in Taiwan offered free all-you-can-eat sushi to anyone who has "gui yu" - the Chinese name for Salmon - in their name. Since changing your name is easy and cheap in Taiwan, people started to change their name so that it includes salmon... -J. - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ |
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Yes, I am no expert about it but it sounds like a bad idea to me https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/23/microsoft_chinese_nsa -J. -------- Original message -------- From: [hidden email] Date: 3/22/21 22:15 (GMT+01:00) To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Salmon Chaos And THIS reminds me of the unforeseen consequences of harboring 0-day vulnerabilities.
From: Friam <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm
It reminds me of the Cobra effect that Russ often uses as an example for unintended consequences: offer an incentive or attractive reward, and people will find a way to get it
-J.
-------- Original message -------- From: Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> Date: 3/22/21 21:51 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> Subject: [FRIAM] Salmon Chaos
A nice example of an unintended consequence: a restaurant chain in Taiwan offered free all-you-can-eat sushi to anyone who has "gui yu" - the Chinese name for Salmon - in their name. Since changing your name is easy and cheap in Taiwan, people started to change their name so that it includes salmon...
-J.
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