@ArtirKel I just read this and thought it was excellent. (It was open in a browser tab; I’ve no idea how it got there.) https://nintil.com/2015/12/24/slaying-alexanders-moloch/ …
It’s still in my queue. I was super intrigued by the title, but my reading app tells me it’s a 66-min read 
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If I could attempt a TL;DR, with apologies to
@ArtirKel (please correct if off!): Main point is that people can and regularly do get ourselves out of bad game-theoretic situations by pointing at them and saying “that’s bad, let’s not do it,” and then we don’t. -
Rather than there being The Solution To Moloch, which is what a rationalist looks for, we collaboratively improvise numerous local solutions to local problems, which is what an ethnomethodologist looks for :) <- includes my editorializing there, obvs
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In the post I apologise for the length :(
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