Sabri writes: > The issue is the following; > > If I heartlessly set up some objective functions and > crank my optimization tools to optimize them, why > should anybody trust me? > > What if the optimal solution of my objective function > requires me to screw you?
that's my concern, too. I think that life in market society (a commodity-producing society) encourages the "screw you to benefit me" objective function to be embraced. It's only the existence of other, non-market, institutions that prevent the Hobbesian war of each against all from taking hold fully. Jim D.
