A different angle - from someone averse to competitions and trading of most kinds: both have simple cost functions, unlike most of the rest of life. Yeah, it wi

A different angle - from someone averse to competitions and trading of most kinds: both have simple cost functions, unlike most of the rest of life. Yeah, it will tend to simplify politics which I think is a good thing. But in other areas a large part of one's effort goes into figuring out what to do - what the cost function actually is, into expanding the understanding of what it is. Incidentally, much of human intelligence and talent in many areas manifests in understanding what to do; it's what machine intelligence is worst at right now; and it's the thing without which machines often beat people (board games are a simple example.) So there are downsides to "simple politics" or rather simple cost functions; I for one don't care about such problems very much.