An organization whose decisions are managed by selfless, rational agents, will necessarily outcompete an organization whose decisions are managed by agents more selfish or less rational.
This is clearly false in the narrow sense of “rational” as meaning something like “acting logically to try to achieve goals” since it doesn’t encompass competence at doing so. To actually outcompete the other organizations, you need the most competent agents, who are almost certainly not the most selfless ones or the most narrowly rational ones.
You’re definitely right. Competence is critical—I will have to edit my article to include that. I don’t believe that is a fundamental flaw with the idea, but it is something I was probably not careful enough about when writing this out.
I’ll need to think about how this effects the idea.
This is clearly false in the narrow sense of “rational” as meaning something like “acting logically to try to achieve goals” since it doesn’t encompass competence at doing so. To actually outcompete the other organizations, you need the most competent agents, who are almost certainly not the most selfless ones or the most narrowly rational ones.
You’re definitely right. Competence is critical—I will have to edit my article to include that. I don’t believe that is a fundamental flaw with the idea, but it is something I was probably not careful enough about when writing this out.
I’ll need to think about how this effects the idea.