If tech companies act like nation states, what will be the tech version of the UN?https://twitter.com/mark_riedl/status/1121044914337394689 …
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Replying to @deliprao
They already are acting like nation states. One proposal that I’ve heard people taking seriously are that these tech companies must become stakeholders in the UN.
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Replying to @mark_riedl
The UN and its charter is setup for the dynamics of nations. Tech companies move at different velocities, have different motivations, and any UN like entity for tech companies will require thinking from the ground up.
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Replying to @deliprao
I’m not going to defend the proposals that multinational tech companies join the UN. Its just a thing people, mostly in Silicon Valley it seems, are talking about.
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Replying to @mark_riedl @deliprao
These companies are not nation-states. Instead, they will need to be brought under the governance of nation-states (possibly through treaties or other inter-governmental mechanisms). This is already happening.
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Replying to @tdietterich @deliprao
That seems sane
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Replying to @mark_riedl @tdietterich
we can only wish that will happen. Very very rich people rarely get under control of a nation-state. They act like autocrats. Very powerful global companies are like this.
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Replying to @deliprao @mark_riedl
Absolutely! But only nation states have the power to punish bad behavior. The only enforcement power of organizations like the UN is the enforcement power of their member states.
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Also note that not all nation states have a good selection process for their administration and error correction for their legislation. Eg the US is quite prone to regulatory capture. The UN is mostly a leaf in the wind.
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Yeah, nation states are not always a model for governance. All the more important for ground up thinking.
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The problem of stable, error correcting governance with the right incentives for long games is the oldest and most pervasive issue of all societies that are larger than a city state.
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Even among cities, only the moderate sized cities with relatively homogenous populations have figured out what "right" incentives are.
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As soon as it gets larger, and even if one government gets it right (Singapore?), a problem is regime succession, because the administration has less skin in the game.
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