I don't believe intelligent people are capable of managing other people's lives. I also don't believe unintelligent people are capable of managing other people's lives. This is why I don't believe democracy is a solution to the problems of elitism.
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Replying to @averykimball
I'm sure there is but we don't know what it is yet. Markets almost certainly play a role. I honestly think it won't matter as soon as all consciousness is synthetic, because then we can implement second-chance systems like artificial reincarnation.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @averykimball
From there experimentation can be more ethically undertaken even up to formerly unthinkable extremes.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
What exactly do you formulate *as* the problem of elitism? Why is elitism *bad* to you?
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Replying to @averykimball
Generically, all command systems suffer from problems of lack of proximity and exposure to relevant information and other imperfections. Elitism in particular is mostly objectionable only because I have very specific tastes in what I would consider elite.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
It seems like you don't have a problem with elitism *per se*, but that the wrong elites are coordinating the system.
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Replying to @averykimball
Any elite that wants to "coordinate a system" is the wrong elite. Any elite given the power to "coordinate a system" quickly becomes the wrong elite. I'm sure there are faustian triumphs of reason hidden on the road to otherwise certain hell, but it's still bad to gamble.
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I think my position is broadly just that if nobody good ever did anything evil we'd only have evil people in evil places doing evil things, which maximizes evil. If good people do evil things, we sometimes get good people doing lesser evil in evil places, which reduces evil.
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