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Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2015 11:10:29PM 0 points [-]

That sounds like a very badly done transhuman society.

Comment author: lmm 06 August 2015 07:42:38AM 1 point [-]

What's the point of comparison? Our best political theorists have not managed to make good societies. Look at real wages over the last few decades.

Comment author: Lumifer 06 August 2015 04:31:31PM 1 point [-]

Look at real wages over the last few decades.

Whose real wages?

I haven't looked, but I suspect that global real wages went up.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2015 12:41:18PM -1 points [-]

Before we even make this comparison, I find it extremely hard to believe that the fall in real wages over the past few decades was created by following the advice of our best political theorists. Neoliberalism has not been known for listening to theorists.

Comment author: gwern 06 August 2015 09:14:15PM 0 points [-]

If it wasn't imperfect, there wouldn't be much of a story. I think it's a well done transhuman society simply because it's bad in a way that is not just possible but a pretty plausible extrapolation: someone is usually root.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 August 2015 03:32:50AM 0 points [-]

Ah. So you're only really interested in bad things.