The merits of replacing the profit motive with other incentives has been debated to death (quite literally) for the last 150 years in other fora—including a nuclear-armed Cold War. I don’t think revisiting that debate here is likely to be productive.
There appears to be a wide (but not universal) consensus that to the extent the profit motive is not well aligned with human well-being, it’s because of externalities. Practical ideas for internalizing externalities, using AI or otherwise, I think are welcome.
That seems to downplay the fact that we will never be able to internalize all externalities simply because we cannot reliably anticipate all of them. So you are always playing catch up to some degree.
Also simply declaring an issue “generally” resolved when the current state of the world demonstrates it’s actually not resolved seems premature in my book. Breaking out of established paradigms is generally the best way to make rapid progress on vexing issues. Why would you want to close the door to this?
I don’t think he’s declaring it resolved, more arguing that it’s been fought over to the death—quite literally—and yet no viable alternative seems to have emerged, so odds are doing it here would turn out similarly improductive and possibly destructive to the community.
The merits of replacing the profit motive with other incentives has been debated to death (quite literally) for the last 150 years in other fora—including a nuclear-armed Cold War. I don’t think revisiting that debate here is likely to be productive.
There appears to be a wide (but not universal) consensus that to the extent the profit motive is not well aligned with human well-being, it’s because of externalities. Practical ideas for internalizing externalities, using AI or otherwise, I think are welcome.
That seems to downplay the fact that we will never be able to internalize all externalities simply because we cannot reliably anticipate all of them. So you are always playing catch up to some degree.
Also simply declaring an issue “generally” resolved when the current state of the world demonstrates it’s actually not resolved seems premature in my book. Breaking out of established paradigms is generally the best way to make rapid progress on vexing issues. Why would you want to close the door to this?
I don’t think he’s declaring it resolved, more arguing that it’s been fought over to the death—quite literally—and yet no viable alternative seems to have emerged, so odds are doing it here would turn out similarly improductive and possibly destructive to the community.