Oddbean new post about login | logout lol if you ever want to experience people without pavlovian traffic behaviors just spend some time in India or southeast Asia
Spent a lot of time in SE Asia. I am familiar with the slow walk to cross the street.
The level of obedience to stop lights and little green man seems to correlate inversely with the perception of authoritarianism of the government - high authoritarianism; ignore green man - low perception; stop for green man This stops being true I'ma surveillance state when you are punished for non-compliance The green man isnt a psyop, it just indicates a general level of awareness about all other surveillance tech. i. e. I hate my government; I will ignore green man in protest
It's wild over there. I would certainly die.