While I acknowledge this is important, it is a truly hard problem, as it often involves looking not just at first-order consequences, but also at second-order consequences and so on. People are notoriously bad at predicting, let alone managing side-effects.
Besides, if you look at it more fundamentally, human natures and technological progress in a broad sense has many of these side effects, where you basically need to combat human nature itself to have people take into account the side-effects.
We are still struggling coming to terms and accurately classifying things like environmental pollution, global warming and such. Understanding the illegible problems → explaining them to policy makers → thinking of legible solution → convincing policy makers → have policy makers convince their constituents → having policy makers take action effective timeframe
I see so much issue with those, that I rather solve the issue on how to gett policy makers to take action within a reasonable timeframe, otherwise defining the illegible problems better will most likely only result in a I-told-you-so scenario.
While I acknowledge this is important, it is a truly hard problem, as it often involves looking not just at first-order consequences, but also at second-order consequences and so on. People are notoriously bad at predicting, let alone managing side-effects.
Besides, if you look at it more fundamentally, human natures and technological progress in a broad sense has many of these side effects, where you basically need to combat human nature itself to have people take into account the side-effects.
We are still struggling coming to terms and accurately classifying things like environmental pollution, global warming and such. Understanding the illegible problems → explaining them to policy makers → thinking of legible solution → convincing policy makers → have policy makers convince their constituents → having policy makers take action effective timeframe
I see so much issue with those, that I rather solve the issue on how to gett policy makers to take action within a reasonable timeframe, otherwise defining the illegible problems better will most likely only result in a I-told-you-so scenario.