Perhaps there are pre-existing self-sufficient communities that have attained enough scale for there to be mental and ideological diversity? Eg kibbutzs, coops, watered down communes, etc....
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My previous compromise here was to slowly create a cultural neighborhood inside a larger city (eg Chinatown), but that's too much outsourcing for an age of systemic chaos.
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Another way of framing the desirable: a self-sufficient *town.* Something larger than Dunbar's # to afford mental diversity but much smaller than a "city," since then you're more vulnerable to systemic chaos.
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Besides mental diversity, you also want a large enough dating pool, as
@RichDecibels importantly points out in https://www.microsolidarity.cc/articles/proposal … ...Not to mention all sorts of other network effects you need at least town-level scale for.Show this thread
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@RichDecibels' microsolidarity proposal among other things b/c he suggests that such communities should be in contact with a network of other such communitieshttps://www.microsolidarity.cc/articles/proposal … -
Without having read it, I like the sound of it. But in the age of COVID, it seems hard to sync risk-minimization protocols. A recent experiment here was Bay Area rationality and rat-adjacent houses, where AFAIK, things have not gone as smoothly as hoped
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I have a lot of ideas here (and extensive experience). In a hurry at the moment but commenting to remind myself to double back/would be interested to have this conversation.
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I've been thinking about that in the context of tourism 2.0:https://twitter.com/FPallopides/status/1262482537118674944 …
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Yeah I think this is a promising direction as long as the transparent capitalist cult can avoid the eventual fate of becoming mainly a money-making machine. Although the tourism bit is going to be tough to scale given covid
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All that remains is to pick your cult wisely. Keeping in mind the best cults have many orders or niches in which different personalities can thrive and contribute.
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