NRx is monarchism/autocracy implemented with tech, there is an obvious set of technologically interesting things you could do with republicanism or even direct democracy like in Alistair Reynold’s The Prefect
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Replying to @drethelin
"NRx is monarchism/autocracy ..." -- so then why does Moldbug define the "monarch" (Neocam CEO) as an executive appointment, rather than a dynastic stock-holder?
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Cuz he’s trying to simplify assumptions in order to do theorycrafting. See also: fnargl, the immortal unkillable alien king
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Replying to @drethelin
More economical to see Neocam as a model for coherent republican governance packaged in Jacobite LARPing for the troll value. But pretty much everyone missed the joke.
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Moldbug was explicit that professional management with stock ownership is superior to inheritance with a family business. When he advanced the latter it was only in comparison to what we have today -- *Even* hereditary monarchy is better than democracy.
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Some of us (well, mostly me, really) are more attached to hereditary monarchy than he was because of the difficulties of the crypto-locked-weapon mechanism that was supposed to secure stockholders' rights. But that's divergence from Moldbug.
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Replying to @LexCorvus @anomalyuk and
Whole tone of the "crypto-government" bit seemed to me to be that modern tech /obviates/ the fundamental natsec requirement "have a loyal army". Don't discount crypto-locks as useful tool in some applications, but that's dangerously wrong.
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @LexCorvus and
It's not wrong, just ahead of its time.
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Replying to @Outsideness @LexCorvus and
If we get robot armies, sure. I'd offer a bet on whether that will happen, but if you win we'd both be too busy getting killed by Terminators, so.
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The notion that super-intelligence will have nothing more interesting to do than exterminate humans is a weird form of anthropian vanity.
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Replying to @Outsideness @LexCorvus and
Nah, we're just made of atoms they'd have better uses for
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @LexCorvus and
We're hardly a privileged source of atoms. Chimps are made of atoms, and we're not melting them down.
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