Konkvistador comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 June 2012 12:01:07PM *  4 points [-]

A fellow LessWrong user on IRC: "Good government seems to be a FAI-complete problem. "

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 June 2012 01:13:49PM 5 points [-]

Which ought not be surprising. Governments are nonhuman environment-optimizing systems that many people expect to align themselves with human values, despite not doing the necessary work to ensure that they will.

Comment author: wedrifid 21 June 2012 12:27:25PM 1 point [-]

Sounds about right to me.