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Evolution has not solved the principal-agent problem. > What is enough today will not help you survive tomorrow's famine. Tomorrow's famine will be caused by
by wizzwizz4 2y ago
Evolution has not solved the principal-agent problem.
> What is enough today will not help you survive tomorrow's famine.
Tomorrow's famine will be caused by you (read: those behaving as you describe) not knowing when enough is enough. Best preserve what we have, rather than waste it all in a frantic bid for number-goes-up.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago> Tomorrow's famine will be caused by you Possibly. Or maybe it will happen anyway. > (read: those behaving as you describe) That's mostly leftist moralizing on your part.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoMaybe it's moralizing, but I don't think it's wrong. I'm using the same model as you, after all, only I'm applying Kantian ethics instead of unconsidered egoism. • If you wish yourself maximal reproductive fitness, then all humanity will be your descendants, and the next few centuries of all human interest is your interest. • The iterated prisoner's dilemma is a classic economic argument, by which Tragedy of the Commons-type behaviours can be averted. (Garrett Hardin's 1968 paper is a load of nonsense.) I'm not sure what would contrast my earlier "leftist moralizing", because I have absolutely no idea what a leftist is.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago> Maybe it's moralizing, but I don't think it's wrong. Religionists never think their religion is wrong. But I don't belong to your cult. > because I have absolutely no idea what a leftist is. Leftists never have any idea what a leftist is. But I don't belong to your cult.