>Can you imagine humanity, but 100% focused on maximizing profit, with everyone working around the clock to produce, produce, produce? Can you imagine trying to write laws to cover every possible externality, every possible way that people might pollute the environment, consume too much natural resources, or screw up the things that capitalism doesn't cover?
Sure, I can imagine a lot of things. I can also imagine a version of humanity that is a thousand times more wise and ethical than we are. Being able to imagine something doesn't mean that it is likely. I'm not convinced that the worst case scenarios significantly outweigh the best case scenarios and the benign scenarios in the probability distribution, because I don't think we have enough information to assign accurate probabilities to vaguely defined future events.
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>Can you imagine humanity, but 100% focused on maximizing profit, with everyone working around the clock to produce, produce, produce? Can you imagine trying to write laws to cover every possible externality, every possible way that people might pollute the environment, consume too much natural resources, or screw up the things that capitalism doesn't cover?
Sure, I can imagine a lot of things. I can also imagine a version of humanity that is a thousand times more wise and ethical than we are. Being able to imagine something doesn't mean that it is likely. I'm not convinced that the worst case scenarios significantly outweigh the best case scenarios and the benign scenarios in the probability distribution, because I don't think we have enough information to assign accurate probabilities to vaguely defined future events.