[ExI] good news bad news for germans

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2013-07-01 02:17, spike wrote:
> The only thing that surprises me in all this is that we saw it coming 
> fifteen years ago and did nothing. We just walked right into it.

I just came back from a workshop on governing slowly devloping risks at 
the International Risk Governance Council, and I think this is generic: 
it takes special conditions for enough of the right people to sit up and 
take action.

In particular, it doesn't seem to work well if there are vested 
interests on different sides. The Grand Banks cod fisheries and climate 
change have turned into messes because of opposing interests, while Y2K 
got fixed. Surveillance and constitutional erosion unfortunately also 
had the multiple interests case.

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University