[dragonwriter]

> > > Can you explain from first principles why "one vote per person" is a good way to efficiently produce law

> > Side note: Efficiency of law production is not a metric most people will consent to prioritizing above metrics like perceived justice.

> Economically efficient law is pretty difficult to argue against.

"Efficiently producing law" and "producing economically efficient law" are rather dissimilar concepts, in the same way that "efficiently producing automobiles" and "producing fuel efficient automobiles" are dissimilar concepts.

[baddox]

> "Efficiently producing law" and "producing economically efficient law" are rather dissimilar concepts

Sorry, I didn't intend for you to infer that. I meant the same concept in both sentences. I am not talking about some more specific type of efficiency like fuel efficiency, which has nothing to do direct with the concept of economic efficiency.

[dragonwriter]

> Sorry, I didn't intend for you to infer that. I meant the same concept in both sentences. I am not talking about some more specific type of efficiency like fuel efficiency, which has nothing to do direct with the concept of economic efficiency.

I think you misunderstand the problem; "Producing efficient X" and "Efficiently producing X" aren't the same thing. The first is about the efficiency of the process of producing something (how the inputs are used to produce the output), the other is about the qualities of the output. The problem isn't "economic efficiency" vs. "some more specific type of efficiency", its production efficiency (in whatever terms) vs. efficiency of the product (economic or otherwise.)

[baddox]

> "Producing efficient X" and "Efficiently producing X" aren't the same thing.

I understand your claim. I'm trying to avoid a semantic argument by making it clear what I meant. I'm not arguing about what the "true meaning" of those phrases are. Just know I was referring to economic efficiency both times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_efficiency