the book "The Managerial Revolution" I hear is a great resource on exactly this topic, a class of people organizing systems to carefully avoid personal responsibility
im not sure the idea that decreasing distance between actors and acts would solve the problem. even at zero distance, it’s hard to tell which actions themselves are harmful or beneficial. like, what if some teen boy got an ai girlfriend and used all the time teenage boys normally spend obsessing over girls into like, curing cancer or some other vastly net good act. i also am not quite sure harmless acts even exist?
to be pedantic, I didn't actually say that decreasing distance would solve the problem. I said that distance enables bad behavior, not that closeness prevents it.
It is hard to tell what's harmful, and that will always be the case. but I think that it is important for people to be personally incentivized to figure out what is harmful and what is harmless, and choose actions accordingly, since individuals are best equipped to understand their own situations. the alternative is a state that has to develop increasing surveillance and interfere more and more with people's lives to try to ensure fairness, while still inevitably kind of sucking at its job
the book "The Managerial Revolution" I hear is a great resource on exactly this topic, a class of people organizing systems to carefully avoid personal responsibility
im not sure the idea that decreasing distance between actors and acts would solve the problem. even at zero distance, it’s hard to tell which actions themselves are harmful or beneficial. like, what if some teen boy got an ai girlfriend and used all the time teenage boys normally spend obsessing over girls into like, curing cancer or some other vastly net good act. i also am not quite sure harmless acts even exist?
to be pedantic, I didn't actually say that decreasing distance would solve the problem. I said that distance enables bad behavior, not that closeness prevents it.
It is hard to tell what's harmful, and that will always be the case. but I think that it is important for people to be personally incentivized to figure out what is harmful and what is harmless, and choose actions accordingly, since individuals are best equipped to understand their own situations. the alternative is a state that has to develop increasing surveillance and interfere more and more with people's lives to try to ensure fairness, while still inevitably kind of sucking at its job