it hurts personally, but it comes from a place of widespread uncertainty solving it locally works, but is a solution good enough if it doesn't tackle the problem in its entirety?
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Replying to @erin_nerung @FateOfTwist_
Solving problems locally is efficient even in this world. First, concentrating on solving issues locally insulates me from reliance on broken systems. Second, I don't actually have any ability to solve systematic problems and so effort expended toward that end is wasted.
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Is difficulty in scaling up solutions a local or global problem? If everyone solves their local problems will all problems be solved or are some problems intrinsically global? If we can solve a problem N people have in common why can't we solve a problem N+1 people have?
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Some problems are intrinsically global for sure. Emergent properties, neighborhood effects, all of that. I can come up with or advocate for nice solutions to some of these problems (and indeed they're often widely known!) but implementation is another enchilada entirely.
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Replying to @eigenrobot @reighleyc and
The coming up with solutions bit was fun for a while until I learned about advocacy and implementation and idk at this point I almost prefer the problems
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There is a meta problem of localizing global problems and making them amenable to efficient solution. It remains unsolved for our society as presently constituted.
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I mean--most of these problems have theoretical solutions. Pigouvian taxes, that sort of thing. The difficulty lies in engineering--econometrics is just not up to this with the current data and toolset--and more importantly, in political execution.
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The question is : why would those be hard? A public good, tractable by public action might still collapse into a flaming pile of crap beyond the wildest dreams of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Our politics is considerably more dysfunctional than anyone but Moloch wants it to be.
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if you develop a credible plan to help the general public Become Good I will be delighted to support it :)
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My idea is to start with developing an understanding of what it means to Become Good, and I think that we have been systematically blocked from being able to do so, and I think this is quite possible and tractible once that block has been bypassed.
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Hm! You may be right. Any theories about the blocc? Gosh I miss grognor
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This is a little hard to get at because it's baked into our cultural background for the past few centuries, and backgrounds like being invisible since they have nothing to be compared against....
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Replying to @FateOfTwist_ @eigenrobot and
A pithy answer is something like individual rational present-at-hand observer stances which attempt to take a view-from-nowhere.
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