Contemporary · Worldview & Futurism · Essay
Meditations on Moloch
Scott Alexander · 2014
"Multipolar traps and coordination failures ('Moloch') drive races to the bottom across civilization."
Scott Alexander's famous essay uses the ancient Canaanite god 'Moloch' as a metaphor for multipolar traps—situations where individual rational incentives inevitably lead to a globally catastrophic outcome for everyone.
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