[ExI] how large is a human mind?
Anders Sandberg
anders at aleph.se
Tue Jan 1 11:14:46 UTC 2013
On 2013-01-01 07:38, Alan Grimes wrote:
> Why would any slightly sane person permit such a regime to arise?
Sounds like a common objection against a lot of situations we find
ourselves in these days. Just consider the top news headlines.
The answer typically is 1) we did not see it coming, 2) that we lacked
the necessary coordination to avoid it, 3) nobody found a way of
changing the rules unilaterally so that the state was avoided.
While better smarts might fix 1, it is still worthless if the state is
an attractor that will swallow you. Fixing 2 is risky because big
coordination might squash individual liberty (but historically we have
become better at coordinating, including non-coercive coordination).
Fixing 3 is unreliable, since radical innovations that can change the
underlying rules of societal states can also cause rapid and unexpected
trouble: the fewer good states there are, the more risky innovation or
institution design becomes.
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University
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