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we hired a Julius. Result after a year: Prolific people were laid off, yappers stayed, sales didn't grow, more money was spent than made. Company has 6 month left of runway. Oh Julius why you be like that? Amazing presentations tho. Like watching a movie.

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Wouldn't you agree that the problem in such a situation is not the Julius/Julii, but the managers who hired and misunderstood his/their contributions?

Wouldn't you agree that the problem is not the managers who hired and misunderstood their contributions, but the society who forged them and incentivised them to behave and think like that?

You can basically choose a "scape-goat" at any of these levels, or just choose to accept them all as equal parts of a strange contraption.

I would not agree. Managers are the fitness function in the system. Workers tend to optimise based on it.

Actor-Critic my beloved!

So then, if we can choose to scapegoat at any of these levels, do we choose to recurse to the base case and say that surely we agree that living in a society based on capitalism incentivizes it and money is at fault, or do we escape recursive loop before getting there by returning early and focusing on something else that’s inconsequential?

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