https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itscomplexetcHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:59:21 +0000A bit like the engineers themselves.

]]>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:45:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314783itscomplexetchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314783https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314783Rationality has to be guided by common sense. I’m sure Nazi Germany had many extraordinarily capable technocratic leaders but we have those in ample supply and with the computers now reasoning with us I don’t think we need more of those. Rationality is a solved problem as far as I’m concerned. We have other issues. We lack a coherent moral vision, societal cohesion, stability, sanity. Once you lose those it doesn’t really matter what system you implement, it’s just delaying the inevitable.

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