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Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019) by joe_the_user on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:47AM (#25183945)
No one gets paid for preventing problems.

That may be true now but it seems like a recipe for disaster (check 3-4 ongoing disasters outside my window, yep). I assume in earlier eras society prepared for disasters, paid people to prevent disasters and so-forth. Has something changed?

Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019) by fnrslvr on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:22AM (#25185974)
I think the point being made here, is that it is difficult to gain recognition for counterfactuals.