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Clarity comments on Moloch: optimisation, "and" vs "or", information, and sacrificial ems - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Clarity 05 March 2016 03:50:19AM 0 points [-]

I came here to complain that I don't understand meditations on moloch at all. Can someone explain the points more explicitly? And you have. Thank you.

If:

Excess resources / we are in the dream time and can afford non-competitive behavior. Physical limitations to what can be sacrificed Economic competition actually producing positive utility for consumers (but this is fragile) Coordination, e.g. via governments, guilds, friendships, etc.

Then those factors are the critical systemic elements of progress.

However, is there any reason to believe those are those systemic elements, rather than others?