From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 00:54:48 MDT
Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> I have trouble relating to the "liberals v. conservatives" contest. I don't
> think either communism or capitalism is particularly democratic. We can do
> a lot better than we have done in the past - not by molding humans to fit
> the economy's needs, but by reshaping economic and social policies to fit
> human needs.
Hey, I've got an idea. Let's reshape the economy so that stock prices go
up forever and there are only unending booms instead of busts.
You can't wrest control away from the evil corporations. They never had
control in the first place.
Nobody possesses the tools, the power, or the understanding to shape the
economy to "fit human needs". If it was that easy, there wouldn't be any
such thing as a bear market.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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