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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      thinking about society rn consider the following

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      many interactions in society are governed by implicit contracts, or explicit contracts with implicit implications ("incomplete contracts") im not talking about Rousseau's garbage here; more along an explicitly economic line see eg this (very dry) gem https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521597137/ 

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      this came to mind because several minutes ago I poured some grease down the kitchen sink

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      nothing in my lease prevents me from doing this, and it is certainly more convenient to pour grease down the sink than to spend a minute finding a container for the grease and putting it in the trash sealed it is however bad for the pipes

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      if I owned the building I would have taken a moment to dispose of the grease properly I currently rent, but one month ago I still would have put it in the trash unfortunately, in the ensuring period, my landlord violated an implicit element of our contract: "don't be a dick"

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      there are still elements of the building that I am incentivized to care about because they are protected by my deposit or by explicit terms of the lease, but because the landlord Defected this is the limit to which I am willing to big-c Cooperate

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

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      and this is bad for both of us, because the cost of replacing the pipes in the building is far greater than the $25 the landlord strong armed from me; and I was happy to pay epsilon seconds to not degrade the property in exchange for not being strongarmed https://twitter.com/_djpn/status/1387940764278149120?s=19 …

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      why would the landlord do this? well frankly he has no idea who I am, no context for my rental history, and apparently no bandwidth to read his fucking emails he's operating at scale and impersonally. for him this was Tuesday

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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      anyway generalizing, it seems to me that scaled organizations necessarily have a difficult time adhering to implicit contractual terms when interacting with individuals firms employ managers to facilitate this and the best managers keep firms and employees Cooperating

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

      nonlocal governments however struggle here. most individuals mean nothing to them until they stop paying taxes or become Inconvenient, and their main mode of interfacing is rigid bureaucracy do you enjoy calls from the FBI or the IRS?

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

          so basically a major problem of government is cultivating a relationship with its citizens that is Cooperative to avoid these contracting problems

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

          governments can do this by not imposing hateful terms, by keeping its operation as local as possible, by keeping the contract space predictable and limited, and by cultivating a sense of shared intetest and identity

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

          noting all of this it seems like (i) representative governments probably have advantages over nonrepresentative, (ii) the US really has probably fucked up by nationalizing and bureaucratizing everything instead of keeping most operation small scale and devolved to localities

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Apr 29

          tldr today im mad about the twentieth century thanks for listening

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        2. Richard Bibeault‏ @Duderichy Apr 29
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          trick question, the IRS doesn’t call

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        3. ؜‏ @nicholatian Apr 29
          Replying to @Duderichy @eigenrobot

          IRS = Irrational Revenue Service. they dont know how much you owe them so they need you to figure it out

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        2. Boos Did 9/11‏ @007Bistromath Apr 29
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          I mean, I kind of would, but boy howdy am I a Special Case

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        3. Boos Did 9/11‏ @007Bistromath Apr 29
          Replying to @007Bistromath @eigenrobot

          would I turn down the opportunity to speak with demons? of course not, the fact that I hate them doesn't mean they aren't important let me grab the guts of this world and shove them into the shape they should be

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        1. Matt Diamond‏ @mattdiamond Apr 29
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          right, that's the problem with groups at scale... cooperation becomes bureaucratic and lifeless

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