like yes different things in the list i mention are bad and you can be sure i agree with you abt which ones are actually bad or even real but they seem marginal compared to the government clearly cant do a damn thing right and wont get out of the way to let other people fix stuff
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so yes things just start piling up Afghanistan is a clusterfuck, the only response to the supply chain is "welp", covid response is a sad joke, we never even really got over 2008 in a lot of ways more and more and morehttps://twitter.com/TheTriarii/status/1452680300186718213?t=CuNZu9NtnGsedQYbq7j4Zg&s=19 …
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so things keep piling up and getting worse and the government focuses on doing what it can do which seems to be setting money on fire and making insider trades and issuing increasingly meaningless diktats that sort of convey the idea theyre doing somethinghttps://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/22/jennifer-klein-national-gender-strategy-policy-council-equity-equality/ …
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so maybe we make it through the supply chain crisis without things really going tits up, maybe federalism starts kicking in and states handle things more gracefully and flexibly, lots of ways out idk. its possible im over pessimistic today, but this clicked for me and seems bad
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assuming the model is approximately correct, maybe the question is "at what level of social or political organization below the current one do we find a stable floor" i have no idea but might be worth considering. ilu stay strapped
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@robinhanson ht@arctanno this seems like a very difficult and unsolved problem see also the guy whose name i forget talking about sociopolitical sclerosis generally https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/10/what-makes-stuff-rot.html …Show this thread
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I think we saw the first rumblings of that with the energy crises (plural!) from last winter, and the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
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It at LEAST goes back to the recession of 2008, it's just getting more sclerotic rapidly. Failure in complex systems happens slow and ignorably then all at once.
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It seems like many of the crises are also caused by government. So if they would just do nothing the crises might stop accumulating.
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I used to think this, but right now, I think innaction may still leave us beyond the tipping point.
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