The biggest problem here is that you're trying to apply an economic system to an ethical system. That's not a critique of capitalism, but a critique of you choosing to use a shovel as an ingredient in banana bread.
There is both no reason to, and it makes no sense to, twist capitalism into such incoherent pretzels that you apply it to any of the use cases you do here. Of course it makes no sense, but the problem is you and others choosing to use it that way in the first place.
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If you want to make everything worse, one of the best ways to do that is by trying to institutionalize your personal opinions, and punish people for not thinking the way you do. That way madness, and war, lies.
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A number of times throughout this post/interview you pose two things against each other as if they're in conflict, when they aren't in any way. For example you say that capitalistic growth won't go on forever, but that's not a criticism of anything, because (barring entropy, perhaps) *nothing* goes on forever. Then you pretend that public spending in research and development is in any way in conflict with competition, which makes no sense at all.
"How do we design a system that takes the best bit of centralization, but also the best bits of decentralization..."
You don't. You use one system where it fits, and others where it doesn't. You say this is about escaping molochian traps, but throughout this interview you repeatedly choose to walk right into trap after trap of your own design, close the door behind you, and lament why, oh why, are we now trapped?
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Safty third. Fuck yer day!
Appropriate that this discussion happened at a burn site. Never been to the big burn, but tons of regionals, and helped run a few. Great place to hear people talk about incoherent ideas flailing against the walls of real problems... like actually arguing for giving the UN an army. That is one of the most outlandishly ignorant ideas I've seen in some time. He even calls it 'reform'. That's the most Molochian thing mentioned during the interview, by far, with these reputation markets being second.
really wishing I would've stumbled upon this while wandering the playa
The biggest problem here is that you're trying to apply an economic system to an ethical system. That's not a critique of capitalism, but a critique of you choosing to use a shovel as an ingredient in banana bread.
There is both no reason to, and it makes no sense to, twist capitalism into such incoherent pretzels that you apply it to any of the use cases you do here. Of course it makes no sense, but the problem is you and others choosing to use it that way in the first place.
--
If you want to make everything worse, one of the best ways to do that is by trying to institutionalize your personal opinions, and punish people for not thinking the way you do. That way madness, and war, lies.
--
A number of times throughout this post/interview you pose two things against each other as if they're in conflict, when they aren't in any way. For example you say that capitalistic growth won't go on forever, but that's not a criticism of anything, because (barring entropy, perhaps) *nothing* goes on forever. Then you pretend that public spending in research and development is in any way in conflict with competition, which makes no sense at all.
"How do we design a system that takes the best bit of centralization, but also the best bits of decentralization..."
You don't. You use one system where it fits, and others where it doesn't. You say this is about escaping molochian traps, but throughout this interview you repeatedly choose to walk right into trap after trap of your own design, close the door behind you, and lament why, oh why, are we now trapped?
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Safty third. Fuck yer day!
Appropriate that this discussion happened at a burn site. Never been to the big burn, but tons of regionals, and helped run a few. Great place to hear people talk about incoherent ideas flailing against the walls of real problems... like actually arguing for giving the UN an army. That is one of the most outlandishly ignorant ideas I've seen in some time. He even calls it 'reform'. That's the most Molochian thing mentioned during the interview, by far, with these reputation markets being second.