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The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA
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Dragon of Chaos. Restore the dragonsphere: (Transhumanist dragonkin simulationist archipelago/patchwork) http://patreon.com/alephwyr , https://alephwyr.substack.com/ 

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    1. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 4 Aug 2019

      In the ancient world, a stranger who came to town was shunned by locals unless they could get a local to vouch for them, a local who would pay if the stranger misbehaved. Today we live in much larger societies, so maybe we should all have to get a rich insurer to "vouch" for us.

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    2. The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA‏ @Alephwyr 4 Aug 2019
      Replying to @robinhanson

      This is just tribalism and tyranny of the majority but with extra steps and a pseudo-market mechanism.

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    3. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 4 Aug 2019
      Replying to @Alephwyr

      Is auto liability insurance, bonded contractors, or small business liability insurance all "tribalism"?

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    4. The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA‏ @Alephwyr 4 Aug 2019
      Replying to @robinhanson

      They're barriers to entry/ownership/use, which fall under the header of protectionism, which inherently favors people with money. So I'll say it's tribalistic in a very specific and limited sense and probably only incidentally as well.

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    5. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 5 Aug 2019
      Replying to @Alephwyr

      You see no useful functions of them then?

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    6. Travis Lambirth: |𝌄𝌂|䷼𝍃|䷇𝌎|䷓䷴|𝌹䷢|🝤♲| = 𝌻‏ @travislambirth 5 Aug 2019
      Replying to @robinhanson @Alephwyr

      Fascism also has useful functions. I think the concern here are some obvious unintended consequences and power imbalances. What do we do with the uninsurables? How does individual freedom suffer when we all need to keep these insurers happy? This seems so obviously flawed to me

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    7. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 5 Aug 2019
      Replying to @travislambirth @Alephwyr

      I discuss high premiums and individual freedoms here: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/01/privately-enforced-punished-crime.html … http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/05/freedom-isnt-free.html …

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    8. The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA‏ @Alephwyr 5 Aug 2019
      Replying to @robinhanson @travislambirth

      Your bounty hunter proposal is interesting and I could see being an advocate of something like that if it were fleshed out a bit more. The rest of it would likely make things somewhat better for most people and much worse for a minority of people. I am not sure I could support it

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      The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA‏ @Alephwyr 5 Aug 2019
      Replying to @Alephwyr @robinhanson @travislambirth

      The average "user" of the criminal justice system now is precisely the sort of person who wouldn't be able to afford your premiums under any realistic scheme, which makes it an especially bad place to implement this type of reform imho.

      8:31 PM - 5 Aug 2019
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        1. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson 6 Aug 2019
          Replying to @Alephwyr @travislambirth

          Today we have parole and probation to make tradeoffs between safety and limited freedoms for such people. This system is a lot more flexible about such things. If we feel bad for them, we can redistribute more to them.

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