2/ I keep running into disparate circles of people all motivated to produce various technocratic solutions to problems. I'm prone to doing this in narrow contexts, but it really seems to be a broad and fast-growing impulse at much larger levels of socio-technical organization.
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3/ The thing is, I don't know how to argue or even caution against it at this point. The reason it's such an accessible idea is because we live in a time of technological wonder. So the actual null feels like "why can't technology solve this?" rather than "can technology help?"
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4/ Technocratic solutions now are dramatically different than they would even 50 years ago — the capabilities are, truly, Clarke-ian magic. So, most people do think tech is great. Experts identify problems... ...but they're also not most people, definitionally.
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5/ TLDR: I'm generally wary of technocratic solutions because I think this remarkable technological capacity to be misleading relative to the size and staggering complexity of the problems people want to solve. But that's hard to communicate, let alone demonstrate.
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6/ It's even harder to communicate why my primary means of exploring problems is computational. If you're asking, "what are the information processing dynamics of this particular type of society?" the warnings fall a bit flat, since you're halfway there already.
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