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I think of it more as minimizing the worst harm a system is causing—the human cost of the best the system delivers. The Veil discourages one from letting those
by handrous 5y ago
I think of it more as minimizing the worst harm a system is causing—the human cost of the best the system delivers. The Veil discourages one from letting those get too out-of-whack.
- specialist 5y agoMakes perfect sense to me. A group can only move as fast as its slowest member. h/t Eli Goldratt, Heather McGhee.
- handrous 5y agoI was thinking more along the lines of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (Le Guin). One person tortured for their entire life, non-stop, to keep an entire city of people basically content? A behind-the-veil designer of systems might be OK with that. Maybe. Half of the city so-tortured, so the rest can live not just content lives, but like billionaires? The designer will almost certainly ask to tweak things to modify that deal. Half the city lives alright, but kinda poor, and the other half like billionaires? The designer might take that one. It's about odds and exactly how bad the worst case is.
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