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“AI is like any by-the-book bureaucrat who, settling on the rule that prohibits coffee purchases from any vendor but A, will give you no explanation as to why vendor A can purchase Starbuck’s coffee but you cannot. Asked why that rule is the right rule, they insist only that it is the rule.”
— Apr 20, 2025 05:02PM
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Erika
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“Discretionary acts are an organization’s way to build in checks on the moral and practical legitimacy of laws and rules. We need wise enforcers when legalism hits its limits, and even when it doesn’t. Wise enforcers, like wise citizens, make a society worth living in.”
— Apr 20, 2025 05:00PM
Erika
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“Unlike Hobbes and the even more pessimistic Machiavelli, Han Fei did not identify humans as by nature brutish, stupid, irrational, or gullible. Instead, they are mediocre. Whatever else he was wrong about, Han Fei was right about this. We are mediocre.”
— Apr 20, 2025 04:58PM
