Re:‘What Do You Think Is the Most Important Problem Facing T...
by coldtea on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:44PM
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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 don't think it's calculable, even in principle. Except in trivial issues, people can (and do) disagree on very fundamental ideas about what we want to optimize for and which direction we should optimize them.
>It's only when people start pushing their stupid agendas and start putting their personal interests in focus that the whole thing gets "difficult".
Why wouldn't the people put their "personal interests in focus"?
Whose interests they should put to focus? And says who?
I don't think it's calculable, even in principle. Except in trivial issues, people can (and do) disagree on very fundamental ideas about what we want to optimize for and which direction we should optimize them.
>It's only when people start pushing their stupid agendas and start putting their personal interests in focus that the whole thing gets "difficult".
Why wouldn't the people put their "personal interests in focus"?
Whose interests they should put to focus? And says who?