The more power a wish fulfillment genie has, and the less bound it is by human structures, the more likely it is to sidestep your intent.
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Relying on factors other than virtue (checks and balances, profit motive, re-election motive) to create good policy is like using genies.
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I expect future technologies to vastly increase the power, and therefore the wiggle room, available to such metaphorical genies.
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This makes me skeptical of methods to ensure good policy that aren't based on increasing the virtue of decision-makers.
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@MemberOfSpecies Does "virtue" here have more content than "features of decision maker than result in selection of good policies"?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@preinfarction I guess it means features of the decision maker that are intrinsic to the decision maker (instead of the situation).
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