There’s a bunch of criticisms here that politicians/politics don’t work that way, you haven’t considered incentives, and that may be true, but...
Everybody knows feels relevant here, plus that thing Scott’s described where (IIRC, something along the lines of) he goes from “those people seem crazy” over a few steps to “oh, they were right, but they’re being unsophisticated about how they say it”.
Like, maybe this is unworkable because politicians aren’t actually trying to cause good outcomes. But even if that’s the case, they still generally pretend they’re trying to cause good outcomes. Making that pretense marginally less believable seems marginally good. And so it seems good to talk about “here’s some ways politicians could more reliably cause good outcomes”.
There’s a bunch of criticisms here that politicians/politics don’t work that way, you haven’t considered incentives, and that may be true, but...
Everybody knows feels relevant here, plus that thing Scott’s described where (IIRC, something along the lines of) he goes from “those people seem crazy” over a few steps to “oh, they were right, but they’re being unsophisticated about how they say it”.
Like, maybe this is unworkable because politicians aren’t actually trying to cause good outcomes. But even if that’s the case, they still generally pretend they’re trying to cause good outcomes. Making that pretense marginally less believable seems marginally good. And so it seems good to talk about “here’s some ways politicians could more reliably cause good outcomes”.