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njarboe
8y ago
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Any organization that has come close to "the ability to allocate the entire society's resources toward the common good" have created societies of great suffering and desperation so far. Maybe some super-intelligent computer system could do better?
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emodendroket
8y ago
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That's just a more efficient way to propagate the preferences of whoever gets to control the computer system.
njarboe
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8y ago
The computer would just be set to maximize the "common good", of course.
emodendroket
8y ago
As defined by whom?
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