at worst this means that the panhandlers will adopt similar measures, which they have no reason not to
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
No one is interested in blackmailing them, though. They're being offered shitty complicity deals, which all precedent suggests they'll accept.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
nakamoto-consensus can prevent bribery just as easily as blackmail, no?
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
The only thing you can implement is automated retaliation. It follows, I guess, that private hemorrhage into blackmail or bribery trickles out. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... So the interesting form of X-Risk Panhandling would be: "Unless we receive
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... Have to agree that the MNR has no knock-down game strategy against that. I'd expect just "Why is this our freaking problem?"
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... But highly notable that any such Panhandler strategy would be even less inclined to actually align with "the poor" than state socialism has been.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
assuming sufficient xrd (including by culling (to the point where 'the poor' means quite capable people that nonetheless face the good old cliff)), that alignment seems inevitable. also I'm stealing "socialism or planetary sterilization" (probably sustitute with communism though)
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
But then you're smuggling in a eugenic teleology, which pushes the problem even further out into science fiction (aka Neocameral Micro-state management).
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
the teleology isn't really necessary but I hear it's sort of a big deal in NRx circles, what I'm actually smuggling in is the notion that any actual eugenic effect of NRx hellworld would increase the threat of nakamoto deathcult communism more than the ordinary trickledown of xrd
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Only if the Patches do a bad job at skimming off the dangerous foreign talent.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
the threat comes from those left behind (who may however find ways to prevent the talent among them from being skimmed off)
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
Leaving dangerous people behind is, indeed, risky. Which is to be distinguished from the more mainstream leftist proposition that leaving people behind is dangerous.
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