By the way, I’d like to call to your attention several other comments on that post:
The reply to my “Thanks, but I meant actual, real-world examples” comment:
Fair request—I have a few examples for consideration, which would probably be better to break out into individual comments attached to your parent to focus discussion.
Two comments (which describe, in detail, real-world cases purporting to be examples of the claimed phenomenon) posted as follow-ups:
At the time Samo was writing his sequence, I had a hesitation about the entire thing summed up by some of Said’s comments: it’s fairly easy to armchair philosophize about society. This post would be better with clear examples, and I’d still encourage Samo to rewrite this post and others to feature examples and evidence.
Nonetheless, all of my own experiences with bureaucracy roughly matches the descriptions given here. I recently explicitly linked back to this post to explain a point, and more generally, this models this post play an important role in how I think about group coordination.
(Do you disagree with the sentiment described in the first of those paragraphs?)
By the way, I’d like to call to your attention several other comments on that post:
The reply to my “Thanks, but I meant actual, real-world examples” comment:
Two comments (which describe, in detail, real-world cases purporting to be examples of the claimed phenomenon) posted as follow-ups:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/brQwWwZSQbWBFRNvh/how-to-use-bureaucracies#j7C5JmbhpP9boBrNe
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/brQwWwZSQbWBFRNvh/how-to-use-bureaucracies#oshL8azidaBNEipgK
(Do you think the discussion was made better by these two comments’ presence? Made worse? Unaffected?)
A comment by Raemon, which says:
(Do you disagree with the sentiment described in the first of those paragraphs?)