You are right that the Nazi run government, despite popular opinion, was very inefficient and dysfunctional from several points of view.
However it seems to have done a pretty good job of:
a) Keeping the various fractions and individuals under Hitler too busy fighting each other to challenge Hitler
b) Keeping the public happy and moulding public opinion
c) Allowing innovation in warfare and hence pretty good at waging war (by modern standards they weren’t good, however compared to say the Soviet Union they did a pretty good job)
d) Killing off large numbers of certain other ethnicities
Arguably these where all primary objectives Hitler had in mind.
You also seem to be too quick to dismiss the IQ and instrumental rationality needed to rise to the rank of top politician or world leader. As well as underestimate the tendency of high IQ people to have more radical political positions. While top Nazis don’t seem to have been particularly brilliant (especially the lower half is disappointing, cost of ethnic and ideological nepotism I suppose), Hitler was probably in the upper half of the group (warning slight mind-killer danger in the commentary). My guesstimation would perhaps put him a bit below three sigma above the Austrian average.
I think Hitler was more intelligent than average, and a great deal more instrumentally rational. He just didn’t have more accurate beliefs about the world.
This might get me down voted, but I don’t think Hitler hated Jews because he had a misconception or two about them or was a result of a honest mistake, I think he would have at least disliked them strongly anyway. This is probably however not true of most German National socialists at the time.
I also don’t think he was ok with getting rid of those tiresome Slavs in the East because he had misconceptions about them, he wanted to get rid of them because they where sitting on land that could be used by his tribe. This particular bit is generally part of a very ancient and in humans very viable value system.
A good way to remind yourself of why indifference of a AI god would be horrifying is the realization that its perfectly possible the Hitler had no real ill will towards Russians or Poles once controlled for his dislike of Communism but that the moral worth of them in his value system just happened to be zero.
Humans can and do have very different value systems.
You are right that the Nazi run government, despite popular opinion, was very inefficient and dysfunctional from several points of view.
However it seems to have done a pretty good job of:
a) Keeping the various fractions and individuals under Hitler too busy fighting each other to challenge Hitler
b) Keeping the public happy and moulding public opinion
c) Allowing innovation in warfare and hence pretty good at waging war (by modern standards they weren’t good, however compared to say the Soviet Union they did a pretty good job)
d) Killing off large numbers of certain other ethnicities
Arguably these where all primary objectives Hitler had in mind.
You also seem to be too quick to dismiss the IQ and instrumental rationality needed to rise to the rank of top politician or world leader. As well as underestimate the tendency of high IQ people to have more radical political positions. While top Nazis don’t seem to have been particularly brilliant (especially the lower half is disappointing, cost of ethnic and ideological nepotism I suppose), Hitler was probably in the upper half of the group (warning slight mind-killer danger in the commentary). My guesstimation would perhaps put him a bit below three sigma above the Austrian average.
I think Hitler was more intelligent than average, and a great deal more instrumentally rational. He just didn’t have more accurate beliefs about the world.
This might get me down voted, but I don’t think Hitler hated Jews because he had a misconception or two about them or was a result of a honest mistake, I think he would have at least disliked them strongly anyway. This is probably however not true of most German National socialists at the time.
I also don’t think he was ok with getting rid of those tiresome Slavs in the East because he had misconceptions about them, he wanted to get rid of them because they where sitting on land that could be used by his tribe. This particular bit is generally part of a very ancient and in humans very viable value system.
A good way to remind yourself of why indifference of a AI god would be horrifying is the realization that its perfectly possible the Hitler had no real ill will towards Russians or Poles once controlled for his dislike of Communism but that the moral worth of them in his value system just happened to be zero.
Humans can and do have very different value systems.