1/ I am very much against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. I am also horrified by the unanimity in opposition to it. I've been getting more and more upset about very quick preference cascades, whether they're for things I like, or for things I dislike. >>>
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2/ Fast cascades do not indicate to me that people are grappling with issues and slowly reaching consensus - they indicate a purely social, not intellectual, process where people are snapping-to-grid. Conformity propagates outwards through the game-of-life grid. Zombies.
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3/ I am also very much against the SWIFT delisting of Russia, and the seizure of foreign exchange reserves. Why? Kegan 4 level thinking. (a) I want PROCESS with rules, deliberation, and appeals, not mob rule (b) I prefer a diversity of geopolitical regimes over a monoculture
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4/ (c) incentives and second order effects. After this is over, what do Russia, China, Iran, etc. do? Stay on SWIFT? Or make some competitor? Does the dollar stay the world reserve currency?
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5/ (d) You get to use a doomsday weapon against a zero-day vulnerability just once, and then it gets patched. [ overlaps w previous point 'c' ] ...so is THIS the event that we want to blow the SWIFT weapon on ?
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6/ Finally, I hate the baby steps that the entire West is making towards social credit scores. Moldbug, in his leaving-Tlon essay talked about how property is inviolable and does not depend on the merit of the holder - because if it can be redistributed based on merit >>>
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7/ ...then it's not property. ...and as we have seen in the PRC w social credit scores, in Canada w the freezing of accounts that [ legally ] donated to a [ legal ] protest group, and now at the international level, the Cathedral HATES property-qua-property BECAUSE veto-proof.
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Replying to @MorlockP
The research about Bronze Age debt done by DOCTOR Hudson underlines this idea about money.
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