> It's easy to say "just force them to optimize for value to society" and then ignore what that really entails in practice. And what giving someone the power to

> It's easy to say "just force them to optimize for value to society" and then ignore what that really entails in practice. And what giving someone the power to do that tends to cause. > Actually solving the related problems and making things actually better is probably possible but it's messy and hard and complicated. What you describe is politics, and it's inescapable.