Re: What would be your idea of a perfect society?
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If (use your imagination if you don't believe in an afterlife) God came to you in Heaven and told you that you were going to be born and that your birth would be random into a family living in the U.S.
You may be born to a family living in the ghetto.
You may be born to illegal aliens living in the U.S.
You may be intelligent, average, or ride the shortest bus they've got.
You may get lucky and be born with above avg intelligence into a very rich family.
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Tough question, not sure what my answer would be, although I can tell you it certainly wouldn't be a society which "maximized the minimum" at all costs. I imagine I would try to determine which social structures offered the highest expected values for me personally, and then make my selection among these by factoring in whatever my subjective aversion to variance happened to be at the time. I'd have to give it more thought to iron out all the details, but I imagine an ACist society would be a pretty good 1st order approximation.
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