The goat rodeo analysis slightly reminiscent of Lin Ostrom's Governing the Commons. Any who want to design collectives that successfully move commons management into the 'cooperation' quadrant must contend with her design principles for polycentric management IMO.
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as I noted elsewhere the commons were actually a form of effective management of resources that lasted many centuries. Properly run commons were common and effective.
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Yes. Sturdy evolutionary basis in this. Also as Vinay’s model illustrates, the tragedy of the commons must be sufficiently solved not just for the earthly commons (atmosphere/ocean/land) but the human one: the collectives formed to tackle the many facets of the climate crisis.
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I think the collectives are almost entirely useless.
Humans panicked and formed tribes according to some ancient instinct. Those tribes have no more power to fix these problems than the individuals that comprise them, because we are not dealing with a bear in a cave near ours.
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We need to figure out better ways of making social decisions. It's not impossible. We were within reach of the necessary tech, and chose not to bother to improve and/or invent it.
And if nothing else, knowing what techs have what consequences is good. We've wasted our best....
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technological minds, for 20 years now, on 'how to make more money from ads."
Now that's insane.
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My job has morphed into software engineering associated with autonomous cars. Wildly popular concept that’s extremely stupid for decarbonization, EV adoption notwithstanding. A big, mindless race attracting our brightest minds like moths. Zero accountability.
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Although my work has to do with validating safety of the steering algorithm, it’s rather like trying to make weapons of war safer. Many days I wake up and think: Stop me before I kill again.
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I can't drive because of a weird visual data processing bug - doesn't affect almost any other part of my life.
I'm eagerly awaiting my liberation :-)
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I wish you and everyone great., liberating transport and think robotic tech has great promise for humanity. But the decision calculus for it’s application is terrible right now.
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As with so, so many right tools in the wrong places.