Individually for a particular manifestation of each issue this is true, you can imagine doing a hacky solution to each one. But that assumes there is a list of such particular problems that if you check off all the boxes you win, rather than them being manifestations of broader problems. You do not want to get into a hacking contest if you’re not confident your list is complete.
True, but Buck’s claim is still relevant as a counterargument to my claim about memetic fitness of the scheming story relative to all these other stories.
Most of the problems you discussed here more easily permit hacky solutions than scheming does.
Individually for a particular manifestation of each issue this is true, you can imagine doing a hacky solution to each one. But that assumes there is a list of such particular problems that if you check off all the boxes you win, rather than them being manifestations of broader problems. You do not want to get into a hacking contest if you’re not confident your list is complete.
True, but Buck’s claim is still relevant as a counterargument to my claim about memetic fitness of the scheming story relative to all these other stories.