Yeah, I was excited when I heard Game B was being created. Will have to wait and see if it yields any fruit. Improving institutional decision making is more of the symptom than the cause, but it might work as a proxy solution, which is probably much easier.
“I think “solving coordination problems” more generally is not that neglected and/or tractable, given that there are strong incentives for a lot of people and organisations to do so already, but I may be wrong.”
But this seems to be the core of coordination problems. Everyone has a collective incentive to do it, and yet we see failures in it all around us. I’m too pessimistic to think we can get to something like “dath ilan”, but it seems like we can surely do better than our current SNAFU. I agree that it might not be tractable. I imagine it might depend more on a few key breakthroughs that are able to outcompete less-than-optimal methods.
Yeah, I was excited when I heard Game B was being created. Will have to wait and see if it yields any fruit. Improving institutional decision making is more of the symptom than the cause, but it might work as a proxy solution, which is probably much easier.
“I think “solving coordination problems” more generally is not that neglected and/or tractable, given that there are strong incentives for a lot of people and organisations to do so already, but I may be wrong.”
But this seems to be the core of coordination problems. Everyone has a collective incentive to do it, and yet we see failures in it all around us. I’m too pessimistic to think we can get to something like “dath ilan”, but it seems like we can surely do better than our current SNAFU. I agree that it might not be tractable. I imagine it might depend more on a few key breakthroughs that are able to outcompete less-than-optimal methods.