There is no metric that can capture the totality of what a good society should optimize for, which is why democratic decision-making (where people decide what dimensions matter) is superior to centralized optimization models that must choose among competing values.

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Mark Zuckerberg

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there's no metric to optimize a society... people get to decide on their own, which of the dimensions in society matter the most to them.

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Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in ConversationYuval Noah Harari
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:59:29 PM

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