Dias comments on Crazy Ideas Thread - October 2015 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 06 October 2015 10:38PM

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Comment author: Dias 08 October 2015 11:10:34PM 5 points [-]

I am bound by many contracts signed by Congress and they didn't even have well-aligned incentives.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 10 October 2015 12:52:55AM 1 point [-]

The general hypothetically good idea of a government is to have one group that can do duch things for the common good and to avoid coordination problems. It often doesnt exactly fulfill that role, but that is an endightment of their behavior rather than license for other groups to behave the same.