Re:‘What Do You Think Is the Most Important Problem Facing T...
by nostrademons on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:59PM
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"The list of things we want to optimize for is finite, there is some ordering to it, and the impact of various actions on those things is, in principle, calculable."
I think you might be surprised at the diversity of answers you get for this, particularly if you actually get people's unfiltered opinions and not what they think you want to hear. Try it, sometime - ask 20 random people (not connected to yourself) what their biggest problem is and what they most care about in their life. You'll get some commonalities (earning a living is a big one, as is social acceptance & validation), but as soon as you start digging into how do you wish to earn a living and what do you consider an ideal world, it very rapidly diverges.
"It's only when people start pushing their stupid agendas and start putting their personal interests in focus that the whole thing gets "difficult"."
That's called "being human". What would you rather they do, defer to your agenda?
I think you might be surprised at the diversity of answers you get for this, particularly if you actually get people's unfiltered opinions and not what they think you want to hear. Try it, sometime - ask 20 random people (not connected to yourself) what their biggest problem is and what they most care about in their life. You'll get some commonalities (earning a living is a big one, as is social acceptance & validation), but as soon as you start digging into how do you wish to earn a living and what do you consider an ideal world, it very rapidly diverges.
"It's only when people start pushing their stupid agendas and start putting their personal interests in focus that the whole thing gets "difficult"."
That's called "being human". What would you rather they do, defer to your agenda?