That probably applies to at least half of all the sociological/governance stuff posted on LW… Plus no existing literature search beyond the first page of google scholar, or sometimes even at all.
Well if the question is “If the whole world is made of smart people with really high motivation, why is it how it is?” the answer is “That question assumes some false things”
Yeah, that’s part of the problem with the hypothetical, but even in a world where the premises of Wentworld/ “What if the entire world was highly-motivated smart and conscientious tech workers?” were true, I’d still contest the idea that bureaucracy would be unnecessary, primarily due to both coordination reasons and the fact that verification would still be massively easier than generation for a lot of natural problems, so I still don’t buy the logical implication.
There would probably be less bureaucracy, but not none in his world.
But that premise falls apart as soon as a large fraction of those (currently) highly motivated (relatively) smart tech workers can only get jobs in retail or middle management.
“What if the entire world was highly-motivated smart and conscientious tech workers?” is the entire premise here.
That probably applies to at least half of all the sociological/governance stuff posted on LW… Plus no existing literature search beyond the first page of google scholar, or sometimes even at all.
Well if the question is “If the whole world is made of smart people with really high motivation, why is it how it is?” the answer is “That question assumes some false things”
Yeah, that’s part of the problem with the hypothetical, but even in a world where the premises of Wentworld/ “What if the entire world was highly-motivated smart and conscientious tech workers?” were true, I’d still contest the idea that bureaucracy would be unnecessary, primarily due to both coordination reasons and the fact that verification would still be massively easier than generation for a lot of natural problems, so I still don’t buy the logical implication.
There would probably be less bureaucracy, but not none in his world.
But that premise falls apart as soon as a large fraction of those (currently) highly motivated (relatively) smart tech workers can only get jobs in retail or middle management.