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I wrote a response to an email today, someone had sent me two ethics position papers. I pigeon-holed my own response after I wrote "it's time policy makers star
by killjoywashere 8y ago
I wrote a response to an email today, someone had sent me two ethics position papers. I pigeon-holed my own response after I wrote "it's time policy makers start assuming responsibility for understanding more logic than just policy logic. Math must be part of their domain expertise".
Mainly I shelved my response because I doubt the policy people on the thread would have taken that very well. But the truth is looming large these days.
- swiley 8y agoIsn't that what the legally so called "experts" are for? Having technology that's too complex for most people to handle hasn't been a new thing for at least a couple centuries.
- ABCLAW 8y agoExperts are a nice resource to have, but they're not a cure-all. Not all of our legislature's representatives have systemically good incentives. Regardless of their ability to understand complexity, complexity offers them the ability to obfuscate. Ignoring any bad faith or corruption, though, our legislatures are also a limited compute resource. If the complexity of modern society rises by orders of magnitude, the tools legislatures previously used to tackle complexity may not scale to the new challenges, or may simply be too slow to address the issues while they are relevant. One of my first areas of research was mapping legislature throughput to variations in rates of technological change. It appears most western governments addressed social issues arising out of the industrial revolution, for instance, exceptionally slowly. To summarize a few years of reading in the library stacks: the relationship between social complexity and quality of governance is not well understood.
- lone_haxx0r 8y agoYou can hire a million experts, but it the one making the decision is a trained monkey, they won't be of any use.