Whoa, you think the scenarios I’m focusing on are marginalist? I didn’t expect you to say that. I generally think of what we are doing as (a) forecasting and (b) making ambitious solve-approximately-all-the-problems plans to present to the world. Forecasting isn’t marginalist, it’s a type error to think so, and as for our plans, well, they seem pretty ambitious to me.
I regret using the word “marginalist”, it’s a bit too confusing. But I do have a pretty high bar for what counts as “ambitious” in the political domain—it involves not just getting the system to do something, but rather trying to change the system itself. Cummings and Thiel are central examples (Geoff Anders maybe also was aiming in that direction at one point).
Whoa, you think the scenarios I’m focusing on are marginalist? I didn’t expect you to say that. I generally think of what we are doing as (a) forecasting and (b) making ambitious solve-approximately-all-the-problems plans to present to the world. Forecasting isn’t marginalist, it’s a type error to think so, and as for our plans, well, they seem pretty ambitious to me.
I regret using the word “marginalist”, it’s a bit too confusing. But I do have a pretty high bar for what counts as “ambitious” in the political domain—it involves not just getting the system to do something, but rather trying to change the system itself. Cummings and Thiel are central examples (Geoff Anders maybe also was aiming in that direction at one point).