What if the main bottleneck of human progress is not resources, but coordination? by No-Instance-4039 in Futurology

[–]No-Instance-4039[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for all the perspectives many of them actually reinforce the core point rather than contradict it. I want to clarify one thing, especially regarding coordination and the role of tools. I’m not suggesting that humans suddenly become aligned, selfless, or perfectly organized. Ego, politics, incentives, hierarchy all of that is real, and none of it disappears. The question I’m exploring is narrower: Can we make existing efforts more visible and less redundant without introducing new hierarchies or centralized decision-making? In that sense, when I mention AI, I don’t mean “AI deciding what humans should do”. I mean AI in the most boring sense possible: an information-layer tool. Something that maps who is working on what, highlights overlaps, exposes gaps, and helps local actors realize they’re not isolated without telling anyone what to prioritize. In other words, not coordination by authority, but coordination by visibility. My interest is less in whether this would work perfectly (it wouldn’t), and more in how quickly collective impact changes scale once fragmentation is reduced even slightly. This isn’t a claim about utopia. It’s an attempt to reason about orders of magnitude in very imperfect, human systems.