in ref_lex-fridman-194-bret-weinstein, They’re talking about Game B / Fourth Frontier and spreading good ideas and whatnot. It made me think about those meta civilizational incentives: Let’s say we can straightforwardly define “good ideas” and leave that bit settled for the sake of argument. If you want good ideas to spread, it matters who picks them up. If Bret and Lex had a civilizational-fixing message here, it wouldn’t matter if a whole lot of well-meaning nobodies like myself integrate that position. You need powerful people - leaders, the wealthy, etc. - to promulgate the ideas. So you’re left up against a different problem - one in the higher-order structure - the problem is that the incentives and pathways to influence may not select for or be open to the “good people” who would otherwise promulgate the message. I guess this is one of the paradoxes of Game B / Fourth Frontier.
A follow-on question is: what set the incentives in place that don’t select for the “good” people mentioned directly above? What’s the meta-structure that created the structure?