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zachster77 t1_ja84vi0 wrote

Reply to comment by omega1212 in The Desert of the Virtual. The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems by Maxwellsdemon17

I think I get what you mean. But I’m not sure “the wisdom of the crowd” serves us well in situations like these. Popularity contests only reward the currently popular.

Have you read Kim Stanley Robinson? He (among others) sometimes writes about Ecological Economics. Tying capitalistic rewards to systems that benefit the planet (and us as one of its animals), could put our long term goals in alignment with our short-term baser instincts.

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omega1212 t1_ja87py4 wrote

That's fair. I think I just trust crowds more than elites in ethical questions (for logical ones it's the reverse). They're more likely to think of themselves in bad and good positions of hypothetical social arrangements.

And no I haven't! I largely agree with that statement about aligning incentives, if not for the tendency towards regulatory capture, not sure how you account for that

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zachster77 t1_ja87vta wrote

Yeah, we certainly haven’t solved for that yet, unfortunately.

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omega1212 t1_ja89cew wrote

Maybe publicly financed elections would do it indirectly. But yeah it seems power is where all the good ideas go to die lol

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