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I can certainly agree with the diagnosis! Putting things naively, do you think the primary call to action should be "change the law" or "change the politicians"

I can certainly agree with the diagnosis! Putting things naively, do you think the primary call to action should be "change the law" or "change the politicians"? Wasting resources and human talent is not a problem in itself. It's suboptimal, that's it. You can interpret it simply as taming the whirlwind so that it doesn't disintegrate the structure and law, putting us back to pre-industrial times. While that aspect of paralysis is mild, the paralysis in response to the environmental changes, to a next pandemic, to virtually any possible physical danger (whether it's an asteroid or an AGI...) is the problem to solve now. Our system needs to be much much quicker when handling dangers on a global scale. I mean, it would be so embarrassing as a civilization to fall over some trivial bump.

streamofdigits 5y ago
the first impulse would be to replace the "crooks" with "untouchables". but we know this does not work. if the system is poorly designed it will eventually engulf and corrupt or mislead anybody, no matter their moral fabric the fallback, then, is to "change the system" (eg constitutional law changes, new checks and balances etc) so that people do the "right thing" by default sounds great (even if a tall order). except this won't work either. there is no real "system" to change. you can write perfect laws and people will simply agree to ignore or subvert them if they are not internalized. we are after all just a collection of homo sapiens with our transient and volatile mental states if I had a magic wand with a single spell I'd change the teachers. and hope that the generation they educate grows and takes control fast enough...