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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My political/economic philosophy priors: 1. No rule about political/economic systems is completely accurate or universal 2. In general, emergent phenomenon from low-level agents is better than top-down rules 3. Culture has huge impact, and often determines the success of a system
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Trinley Goldenberg
@mattgoldenberg
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@Aella_Girl
Can you expand on #2? Is this a way of saying you prefer something like democracy over monarchy? It seems top down rules create emergent phenomena, and that they are also a phenomenon that emerge from lower level behavior of agents, so I have trouble viewing as a dichotomy.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@mattgoldenberg
right; it's unclear at what point we count top-down behavior as emergent phenomenon. I want another word or spectrum to describe self-modifying behavior so I can be more precise about it; but it seems to be some sort of sliding scale and too far in self-modifying seems bad
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