Just out walking the dog, thinking about how desperately we need social structures that make better use of human intelligence, such as it is. Not that I have any particularly great ideas about what those should be, maybe our robotic overlords will be able to come up with something when they arrive, maybe I should be working to hasten their arrival, I don't know.

Thinking that the major failing of the Soviet system was the systematic misuse it made of human intelligence, I think people often tend to see the problem with it as the intrinsically self-interested nature of elites, but really, at least in early days, the Soviet elite was about as non-self-interested as is easily imaginable, so committed and disciplined that it was very easy for a total lunatic to seize the reins of command and do whatever he liked, in fact. Acting in people's interest by proxy just doesn't really work, we need to find more indirect methods to assist people in defining and acting on their own interests, maybe. A major problem with people defining their own interests is that they have actually contradictory ones, of course, tempting to try to tell them which are their real interests, which ones are 'mere ideology', but this is, of course, a lot of nonsense, they're all perfectly real interests. People being made aware of these contradictions might make them work on resolving them or it might make them prone to do most anything. Tempting to just try to convey a richer and more complex sense of the world and hope for the best, it's a pretty minimal sort of hope, though.

Robotic overlords, it is, then, I think.