Why would whether or not something is adequate to a task depend on whether they could have done better with the resources they had availab
Inadequacy of a kind worth complaining about is inadequacy is inadeqaucy that can be reasonaby be fixed. That leads to the possibility of a kind of fallacy where someone is condemned for inadeqacy that isnt actually culpable. “The government are wicked becasue they haven’t given eveyone gold palaces to live in”.
Inadequate equilibria is about the other kind. The point about an inadeauate equilbrium is that there is some possibility of getting into a better one.
This started with a complaint that academia wasn’t taking enough notice of Bostrom’s work. Well, if they are failing to notice it becasue of some fixable problem like bad incentives, then that is one kind of inadeuacy. If they are just too damn busy, like Aaronson, that is the other kind.
Inadequacy of a kind worth complaining about is inadequacy is inadeqaucy that can be reasonaby be fixed. That leads to the possibility of a kind of fallacy where someone is condemned for inadeqacy that isnt actually culpable. “The government are wicked becasue they haven’t given eveyone gold palaces to live in”.
Inadequate equilibria is about the other kind. The point about an inadeauate equilbrium is that there is some possibility of getting into a better one.
This started with a complaint that academia wasn’t taking enough notice of Bostrom’s work. Well, if they are failing to notice it becasue of some fixable problem like bad incentives, then that is one kind of inadeuacy. If they are just too damn busy, like Aaronson, that is the other kind.