An economy that wasn't being constantly manipulated and engineered would arrive at the ideal family size for every couple's personal choices. Without needing to make sure certain populations were kept from being too well-educated or wanting to have careers or being told they're toxic.
As someone who isn't universally opposed to any and all forms of futurism, I've often envisioned a genuinely positive potential in such a thing, if it were available and voluntary: people could accomplish great innovations and solutions for society solving problems in vastly-detailed simulations where they aren't actually hurting or oppressing anyone.
If the simulation's resolution was good enough, imagine the answers we'd get from 100 people simulating a thousand years of various economic models or social policy without having to actually inflict them on people.
Totally agree!
An economy that wasn't being constantly manipulated and engineered would arrive at the ideal family size for every couple's personal choices. Without needing to make sure certain populations were kept from being too well-educated or wanting to have careers or being told they're toxic.
I wish we could have that.
But then what would all the central planners do all day?
Maybe they're the ones that would be happier being plugged into virtual realities for the rest of their biological lifespan playing SimCity games.
Or they could always get real jobs.
As someone who isn't universally opposed to any and all forms of futurism, I've often envisioned a genuinely positive potential in such a thing, if it were available and voluntary: people could accomplish great innovations and solutions for society solving problems in vastly-detailed simulations where they aren't actually hurting or oppressing anyone.
If the simulation's resolution was good enough, imagine the answers we'd get from 100 people simulating a thousand years of various economic models or social policy without having to actually inflict them on people.
"If the simulation's resolution was good enough, imagine the answers we'd get..."
That's called history, isn't it?
Shhhhhhut it.