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  • That is precisely correct, capitalism is in some sense like a story, I don’t remember who wrote it, in which human scientists ask a semi-omnipotent AI to answer some question, and the AI decides that in order to solve it, it needs to transform all the matter in the solar system into an even greater AI, and calmly treats human extinction as an irrelevant side effect.

    “Maximize profit forever” is a bad algorithm if the goal is to sustain a thriving human society. It has no goal state. Just more, forever. Capitalism is fundamentally flawed in its core design and central idea, that somehow, by creating ever more “wealth”, everyone gets richer as a whole, while not taking into account the societal effects of some getting vastly richer than others, compounding over time unto infinity.

    I could go on. But capitalism is a fundamentally broken idea that will implode on itself as a matter of causation as it plays out over time, it is logically and physically incapable of sustaining itself. We are seeing the late stage effects of it play out before our eyes right now.



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    My father always used to tell me that the reason we don’t have requirements on academic qualifications for political office is that in a democracy everyone should have the same chance to get to govern and on the merit of their ideas and character, and that placing academic rules on governance would create an unfair advantage for the privileged and only further entrench class divisions.

    I thought he had a point but was wrong when he was alive, and I think he has a point and is wrong now that he’s dead. Our society is much too complex and fragile for people with no formal education or the most fundamental capacity for critical thinking to handle governing hundreds of millions of people at a time.

    I feel like he had a point, but I feel like I do, too. I wouldn’t mind seeing some form of aptitude test. I mean jeez, you have to take a test to drive a car, but whichever snake oil salesman can decide to plunge the world into war? I don’t know…