The S&P500 and CPC are both “superintelligences,” but quite different in their goal seek.
Let’s study the world’s two largest systems in terms of how they aggregate, and direct the efforts of, hundreds of millions of humans into their state-corporate systems.
Let’s study the world’s two largest systems in terms of how they aggregate, and direct the efforts of, hundreds of millions of humans into their state-corporate systems.
2. First, what’s a superintelligence? “A superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the most gifted human minds”—Wikipedia. But contrary to this definition, not hypothetical...
3. S&P500: The modern corporation is a legal entity which arranges humans in a hierarchical structure, for the pursuit of a narrow mathematical algorithm—maximize short-term investor return. Google for example, has 135K workers all focused on this goal.
4. And every large American corporation is programmed with this same goal seek. Next, organize the 500 largest corporations by market cap into a macro-entity which is the S&P500 stock index. This total entity has 25 million employees, with geniuses borrowed from all countries.
5. The massive size and intelligence of this networked entity creates a gravity which pulls government into its orbit. And so, corporate & state employees merge into a superintelligence serving an idiot master (the afore mentioned narrow algo).
6. This is why despite being terrifyingly intelligent, the system produces what sometimes seem retarded self-destructive long-term choices (cannibalizing its own people, selling out itself, destroying the planet, etc).
7. A superintelligence *could* calculate long-term rational game, unless you specifically wrote the algo *not* to do so (which is what happened in the 70s with neoliberalism/Friedmanism).
8. CPC: The ruling party is 90 million people that were selected from the nation’s 1.5 billion; from a population which has the highest avg IQ on the planet. Each year nearly a million people take the civil service exam, with a pass rate of approx 1.5%.
9. From all accounts it’s a really bad-ass IQ test. And that’s only the beginning, with a lifelong road of then putting those quantified smarts to work to generate real-world governing successes (losers are culled).
10. Understanding this, that we’re talking about the largest governmental meritocracy that has ever existed which selects for intelligence and results, it’s not hard to understand the CPC as a superintelligence.
11. And because it maintains 51% ownership in some of the large corporations (SOEs), it is industry that is pulled into the orbit of government, not vice versa. We could say this conglomerate entity has a “programming” of sorts, to first and foremost protect Chinese sovereignty,
12. and then with borders secured engage in various public projects which benefit the people (poverty elimination, infrastructure, reestablishing the ancient trade routes, etc), and thru this it can stay in power.
13. But this programming is flexible; in the CPC system there are human masters at the top, not a rigid legal algorithm, so the entity *can* reprogram itself to different goals as circumstances change.
14. Now, once we have this toy model we can forecast outcomes a lot better than thru delusional beliefs about these systems (fed by corporate media, the first system).
Obviously these systems would theoretically output different choices, and we can see that is what’s happening.
Obviously these systems would theoretically output different choices, and we can see that is what’s happening.
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