Socialism as an "epistemological trap" (and other stuff).https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad/ …
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... SA sensibly recommends: "Try things on a small scale in limited areas before trying them at larger scale; let different polities compete and see what happens."
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"... Having done all that, and working as gingerly and gradually as you can, you should still try to improve on traditions that seem obsolete or improvable." -- It's always better to branch them, than 'improve' them.
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The emergent properties of random activities for example the entropy maximizing nature of markets, does not necessarily produce results that are guaranteed to always reproduce. System interactions can cause the whole thing to collapse even without some central coordination
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Random search gets stuck in local optima and on problems with hard combinatorial structure will not converge. So gradualism and small-scale experimentation goes nowhere fast. In environments that present problems that require reasoned deductive leaps, such conservatism is fatal.
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