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People in general are paperclip maximizers, not just Capital. All people are slaves to their desires that takes a mind of its own, a sort of real-world Incentiv
by andrecarini 5y ago
People in general are paperclip maximizers, not just Capital. All people are slaves to their desires that takes a mind of its own, a sort of real-world Incentives System.
Chasing power (be it financial, social, political) is a flagrant example of this property of People.
TL;DR: The problem isn't capital. It's humanity as a whole.
- sudosysgen 5y agoI think that this is just devolving the concept of "paperclip maximizer" past the point of absurdity. As I understand it, a paperclip maximizer is a device which has some utility function that it maximizes to an extreme point that it actually ends up providing negative utility to whoever built it or society in general. I don't see how humans doing what they want fits in there. People aren't slaves to their desires that have a mind of their own, people are the minds which make up desires and destroy them. On the other hand, a paperclip maximizer - or, I think, capital - has a singular desire, which is to make as many paperclips as possible or as much profit as possible, everything else be damned, forever.