@ben @OliverC @maria @timbray profit maximization is a competitive game. the whole point of the so-called market for corporate control is that insufficient maximizers get eaten by “more efficient” firms. fundamentally, good and evil is the wrong way to look at the issue. it’s an alignment problem, and an intractable one. 1/

@ben @OliverC @maria @timbray there is no way to consistently align financial incentives with much more contingent and subtle excellences. the only hope is to reduce the role and strength of financial and career incentives (regardless of sector), because most humans when not deflected by those actually do seek to genuinely to advance good ends as best they can. /fin