I can’t believe I’m already on the 6th post for my blog. This one is about the types of optimization failures that lead to wicked problems like antibiotic resistance and and climate change, a set up for future discussions about progress traps.

https://misaligned.markets/when-optimization-goes-wrong-caught-in-mammons-grasp/

#blog #philosophy #capitalism #technology #policy

When optimization goes wrong: Caught in Mammon’s Grasp

We return to my metaphor for maloptimization, or optimization failure, to describe different ways optimization processes often go wrong.

Misaligned Markets