Nudges are, roughly, ways of tweaking the context in which agents choose in order to bring them to make choices that are in their own interests. Nudges are controversial: opponents argue that because they bypass our reasoning processes, they threaten our autonomy. Proponents respond that nudging, and therefore this bypassing, is inevitable and pervasive: if we do not nudge ourselves in our own interests, the same bypassing processes will tend to work to our detriment. In this paper, I argue that we should reject the premise common to opponents and proponents: that nudging bypasses our reasoning processes. Rather, well designed nudges present reasons to mechanisms designed to respond to reasons of just that kind. In this light, it is refusing to nudge that threatens our autonomy, by refusing to give us good reasons for action.

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轻推，轻推，眨眼，眨眼：推拿是有原因的

粗略地讲，微调是调整代理人选择背景的方法，以使他们做出符合自己利益的选择。微调是有争议的：反对者认为，由于绕过我们的推理过程，因此威胁了我们的自治。支持者回应说，轻推，因此这种绕行是不可避免和普遍的：如果我们不为自己的利益轻推自己，那么同样的绕过过程将趋于不利于我们。在本文中，我认为我们应该拒绝反对者和支持者共有的前提：推拿会绕过我们的推理过程。恰恰是，精心设计的推导向旨在响应这种原因的机制提出了原因。有鉴于此，它拒绝通过给我们提供采取行动的充分理由而拒绝轻描淡写威胁我们的自治。