There’s perhaps more detail in Project Lawful and in some nearby stories (“for no laid course prepare”, “aviation is the most dangerous routine activity”).
There are still adversarial equilibria even if every person on the planet is as smart as you. Greater intelligence makes people more tryhard in their roles.
It is possible that today one of the reasons things work at all is because regulators get tired and let people do things, cops don’t remember all the laws so they allow people to break them, scientists do something illogical and accidentally make a major discovery, and so on.
But doctors and mortuary workers couldn’t scam people to be against cryonics because the average person is smart.
FDA couldn’t scam people to think slow drug approvals protect their lives because average people are smart.
Local housing authorities couldn’t scam people into affordable housing requirements because average people understand supply and demand.
Huh. I think you might be correct. Too bad evolution didn’t have enough incentive to make humans that smart.
I suspect that if the average citizen understands confirmation bias, economics 101, the prisoner’s dilemma, decision theory, coordinated action, the scientific method and the Pareto frontier… most of Moloch goes away or never arises in the first place.
You can have adversarial equilibria still, sure, but if everyone is smart and aware of hidden consequences and understands the idea of zero vs non-zero sum games properly you don’t have many adversarial equilibria which destroy net value.
There’s perhaps more detail in Project Lawful and in some nearby stories (“for no laid course prepare”, “aviation is the most dangerous routine activity”).
There are still adversarial equilibria even if every person on the planet is as smart as you. Greater intelligence makes people more tryhard in their roles.
It is possible that today one of the reasons things work at all is because regulators get tired and let people do things, cops don’t remember all the laws so they allow people to break them, scientists do something illogical and accidentally make a major discovery, and so on.
But doctors and mortuary workers couldn’t scam people to be against cryonics because the average person is smart.
FDA couldn’t scam people to think slow drug approvals protect their lives because average people are smart.
Local housing authorities couldn’t scam people into affordable housing requirements because average people understand supply and demand.
Huh. I think you might be correct. Too bad evolution didn’t have enough incentive to make humans that smart.
I suspect that if the average citizen understands confirmation bias, economics 101, the prisoner’s dilemma, decision theory, coordinated action, the scientific method and the Pareto frontier… most of Moloch goes away or never arises in the first place.
You can have adversarial equilibria still, sure, but if everyone is smart and aware of hidden consequences and understands the idea of zero vs non-zero sum games properly you don’t have many adversarial equilibria which destroy net value.