A few months ago I wrote a post about Game B. The summary:
I describe Game B, a worldview and community that aims to forge a new and better kind of society. It calls the status quo Game A and what comes after Game B. Game A is the activity we’ve been engaged in at least since the dawn of civilisation, a Molochian competition over resources. Game B is a new equilibrium, a new kind of society that’s not plagued by collective action problems.
While I agree that collective action problems (broadly construed) are crucial in any model of catastrophic risk, I think that
civilisations like our current one are not inherently self-terminating (75% confidence);
there are already many resources allocated to solving collective action problems (85% confidence); and
Game B is unnecessarily vague (90% confidence) and suffers from a lack of tangible feedback loops (85% confidence).
I think it can be of interest to some LW users, though it didn’t feel on-topic enough to post in full here.
A few months ago I wrote a post about Game B. The summary:
I think it can be of interest to some LW users, though it didn’t feel on-topic enough to post in full here.