Oly Sourbut
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Why are you skeptical that it might be powerful?
I think because we have kind of limited negotiation capacity and budget and bandwidth and so on.
I kind of suspect that at least in societies which are functioning reasonably well, we currently allocate that budget and attention and so on moderately efficiently and are therefore doing the negotiations which are kind of getting us the most bang for the buck.
So unless there's that really, unless the tail of the kind of
less salient lower priority negotiations is really kind of quite fat and adds up to a huge amount then i'm skeptical that we can get like really transformative change there um this is a rough model and i don't think i kind of believe it 100 so so i there's definitely room in there for it to be really really like massively transformative i think some people do believe that and i wouldn't yeah i wouldn't discourage people from being really excited by that i think it is potentially really exciting um another aspect of coordination which i think i used to neglect is
So we notice that when we're interacting,
A huge amount of our interaction is iterated.
Even if we're not interacting with the same people over and over again, the world keeps on kind of ticking over.
It's a very temporally extended process we live in.
And plus, we've already talked about kind of networking.
This is very complex and dynamic network of interacting and communicating people, forming and adapting and growing and shrinking coalitions and groups and so on.
This whole complex system.
produces institutions, it produces constitutions and norms and so on.
And what that means is a lot of our... Because coalitions, because constitutions, because institutions and norms are so important for framing future interactions and cooperation and competition, because they're so important, they become themselves an object of interactions and communication.
Very often when we're fighting, we're actually fighting over what are the norms by which we should later be coordinating?
Perhaps concretely, to make this more concrete, we can imagine...
Pretty high stakes kinds of interactions and negotiations might be themselves about trade agreements, which are meant to then frame a huge number of downstream interactions.
So very, very often interaction is about interaction.
Coordination is about coordination.
This is kind of property of the complex system we live in.
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