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Collective Action Problems are Not a Capitalist Plot: On the Non-Triviality of Going from Individual to Collective Rationality (mastodon.social)

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Collective Action Problems are Not a Capitalist Plot: On the Non-Triviality of Going from Individual to Collective Rationality

https://wedontagree.net/collective-action-problems-are-not-a-capitalist-plot

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting take. I wish they expanded on what we needed to do to make those problems easier for us to solve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Everyone who has ever interacted with settled humans has been wondering this for thousands of years. The problems we had before settlements were infinitely more managable than having to figure out social systems on this scale. The difference between us and those living under Sargon is that we have way more bad examples to consider. We have no way of knowing the effectiveness of anything in the idea stage, especially since we have inherent limitations of awaress as mortal beings.