I think I agree with pretty much everything in this article. The only thing is that I think if you agree with all this, you kind of have to take the next step and say, ". . . and therefore we must explicitly disincentivize the types of behavior that lead to this situation."
> The safest, smartest path is also the most mundane: keep the main thing the main thing.
But the thing is that it's not, now. I think it's harder to succeed doing that than it is to succeed by diving into the cesspool of grift, deception and meta-gaming that the article laments. We're not going to fix that by exhorting the good people to stay out; they're the ones who don't want to jump in anyway. The problem is the bad people who will gleefully jump in and contribute to that disaster, and it won't be fixed without action directed at making that jump more painful (or at least less pleasurable) for them.
> The safest, smartest path is also the most mundane: keep the main thing the main thing.
But the thing is that it's not, now. I think it's harder to succeed doing that than it is to succeed by diving into the cesspool of grift, deception and meta-gaming that the article laments. We're not going to fix that by exhorting the good people to stay out; they're the ones who don't want to jump in anyway. The problem is the bad people who will gleefully jump in and contribute to that disaster, and it won't be fixed without action directed at making that jump more painful (or at least less pleasurable) for them.