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pixl97 • today at 3:34 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Well yes. If a car window gets broken in your town, well that's a simple crime. But if entire parking lots full of cars get their windows broken out that's a crime spree and resources need setup in dealing with it.

The issue with incremental problems and quantity problems is you can't point at a single one and go "here, here is the problem" (at least most of the time), you have to look at the entire problem and go "Shit, the paperclip maximizer building one paperclip isn't an issue, it's turning everything into paperclips that's the issue".

And that's where we are.


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pjc50 • today at 4:24 PM

Ah, but what if you could automate smashing every car window in the city? That would really drive profit to your autoglass business!

(ghost of Bastiat laughs in the distance)