Bentarm—you might be interested in my old post on The Limits of Moral Theory. There I discuss a related result in moral philosophy (due to Donald Regan): that there’s no general way to specify what actions each individual ought to take, such that those agents who satisfy the theory (i.e. who do as they ought) thereby bring about the best (collectively possible) results. It’s quite curious.
Bentarm—you might be interested in my old post on The Limits of Moral Theory. There I discuss a related result in moral philosophy (due to Donald Regan): that there’s no general way to specify what actions each individual ought to take, such that those agents who satisfy the theory (i.e. who do as they ought) thereby bring about the best (collectively possible) results. It’s quite curious.