Curt Doolittle wrote :
THREE IMPORTANT NOTES:
1) THE IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL SYSTEMS:
The USA's common law an optimistic, outcome-decided, empirical legal system that's economically advantageous. Europeans use a pessimistic, prediction-decided, idealistic legal system that's economically disadvantageous - the continental law is one of the worst consequences of the French revolution. In other words, the USA's legal system waits until it has the evidence that results from conflict or abuse, and the European seeks to prevent that conflict or abuse at the cost of discovery, innovation, and adaptation. The USA uses the fastest adaptive legal system in the world for science, technology, and medicine. The Europeans use the slowest. They achieved what they did after the destruction of the German intellectual system purely by wealth and prior advantage. Almost everything was then produced by the distribution of the German intellectual system to Russia and America. Instead of continuing market competition, Europe sought to divert to caretaking rather than competitive advantage, and so while self-congratulatory has been continuing its demographic and cultural suicide for the past seventy years.
2) RETRAINING IS A FALSE PROMISE:
Retraining can only occur within the limits of the learning rate of the individual. This means the best we can hope for is to shuffle people from one tech displacement to another. The alternative solution is ancient and well understood - is that the use of wealth to pay people to produce commons - making the commons a Disney world like old Europe - rather than pay them for production of consumables. This is because the vast majority of commons we desire do not require much other than the same technologies we used to create the gardens, buildings, urban environments, that we did in our history. IN other words, we can pay people to produce beauty. This is the only viable economic direction. It means a vast alteration of the operations of the financial sector so that the returns on investment are restored to an equidistribution between state borrowing and private capital allocation. (Yes this is what I do for a living. ;) )
2) AI VS UTOPIA:
The question of why can't we succeed at producing the utopia, is answerable. It's because we deny the cause of inequality, and the inequality of value, is that we may be abstractly valuable and equal as consumers, but that we are not abstractly valuable and equal as children, students, neighbors, soldiers, employees, citizens, sovereigns. And until we face the fact that the eugenicists were right - that the problem is reproduction rates of different classes, then we will eventually destroy the human race. This TABOO has to end.
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