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True, but then how do problems actually get solved? Perhaps only by agents that would benefit if the problem were solved. For instance, send UNICEF into nation
by jl2718 3y ago
True, but then how do problems actually get solved? Perhaps only by agents that would benefit if the problem were solved.
For instance, send UNICEF into nations with extreme poverty, and you will get back a bunch of sad stories, a bigger UNICEF, and a larger population to feed. Send a cigarette company, and magically the people will find a way to create an economy to fund their nicotine addiction. There are other solutions to the plagues of poverty, such as civil war, narco-states, natural resource extraction, and refugee migration.
Not your intent? Well, you probably didn’t actually want to solve the problem; you just wanted to feel good about your intent to solve the problem, and now I ruined it for you, so I’m the problem.
- mikelitoris 3y agoNo you didn’t solve the problem. You just traded one problem for another one.
- jl2718 3y agoThis is actually the point, and is analogous to convex optimization, in that systems always evolve along the boundary of constraint, and in the linear case, it will always be an exchange of active parts of the problem.