Oh sure. I was pointing to capitalism as one of the stronger optimizers humans regularly use. It’s certainly not the only one.
FWIW I also like it as an example because there’s a lot of cultural awareness of the failure modes and an intuition that they come from optimizing the wrong thing. So you don’t need to do as much work to convince people because the examples are already salient.
Oh sure. I was pointing to capitalism as one of the stronger optimizers humans regularly use. It’s certainly not the only one.
FWIW I also like it as an example because there’s a lot of cultural awareness of the failure modes and an intuition that they come from optimizing the wrong thing. So you don’t need to do as much work to convince people because the examples are already salient.