wedrifid comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blogospheroid 06 October 2010 11:18:49AM 3 points [-]

Coming from the angle of competition in governance, I think you might be mixing up a lot of stuff. A joint stock corporation which is sovereign is trying to compete in the wider world for customers , i.e. willing taxpayers.

If the people desire the values you have mentioned then the joint-stock government will try to provide those cost effectively.

Clean Air and Immunizations will almost certainly be on the agenda of a city government

Biodiversity will be important to a government which includes forests in its assets and wants to sustainably maintain the same.

A free marketplace of ideas, free education and social safety nets would purely be determined by the market for people. Is it an important value enough that people would not come to your country and would go to another? if it is, then the joint stock government would try to provide the same. If not, then they wouldn't.

Comment author: wedrifid 06 October 2010 11:30:56AM *  4 points [-]

All of this makes sense in principle.

(I'm assuming you're not thinking that any of it would actually work in practice with either humans or ideal rational agents, right?)