While I’m glad to see someone writing up critiques of markets and capitalism in language LW will understand, really really incredibly glad in fact, I do have one nit to pick:
Liberals see the free market as a kind of optimizer run amuck, a dangerous superintelligence with simple non-human values that must be checked and constrained by the government—the friendly SI. Conservatives just reverse the narrative roles.
Not only is politics spiders, this is a simplistic strawman of both positions at once. The article would be better for cutting out the meta-level mention of politics and sticking to its object-level claims of fact.
But overall, you have all my upvotes and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
While I’m glad to see someone writing up critiques of markets and capitalism in language LW will understand, really really incredibly glad in fact ..
Noted!
Not only is politics spiders, this is a simplistic strawman of both positions at once.
Haha—very true. I realized it was a dramatic oversimplification, but I wanted to start by establishing the frame of analyzing a politicized issue from an .. apolitical stance. Thus I decided to equally critique both sides of the political spectrum—in a sentence or two. (or perhaps this is all post-hoc rationalization! And perhaps there is no functional difference.)
While I’m glad to see someone writing up critiques of markets and capitalism in language LW will understand, really really incredibly glad in fact, I do have one nit to pick:
Not only is politics spiders, this is a simplistic strawman of both positions at once. The article would be better for cutting out the meta-level mention of politics and sticking to its object-level claims of fact.
But overall, you have all my upvotes and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Noted!
Haha—very true. I realized it was a dramatic oversimplification, but I wanted to start by establishing the frame of analyzing a politicized issue from an .. apolitical stance. Thus I decided to equally critique both sides of the political spectrum—in a sentence or two. (or perhaps this is all post-hoc rationalization! And perhaps there is no functional difference.)