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occurred maybe the case for pessimism rn is not any particular policy by the administration or woke people taking over everything or gadsden flag mobs or whatever
rather its that the us government seems incapable of responding to new crises and they accumulate
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so maybe we make it through the supply chain crisis without things really going tits up, maybe federalism starts kicking in and states handle things more gracefully and flexibly, lots of ways out idk. its possible im over pessimistic today, but this clicked for me and seems bad
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assuming the model is approximately correct, maybe the question is "at what level of social or political organization below the current one do we find a stable floor" i have no idea but might be worth considering. ilu stay strapped
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@robinhanson ht@arctanno this seems like a very difficult and unsolved problem see also the guy whose name i forget talking about sociopolitical sclerosis generally https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/10/what-makes-stuff-rot.html …Show this thread
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Feeling very bad today about stuff
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Convincing the government to stop stepping on its own dick is problematic because the government wants to deny having a dick in the first place. Then it fucks you the moment you turn your back. Help.
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Kind of our Crisis of the Third Century, right down to the multiple claimants to leadership, plagues, and an economic reliance on foreigners.
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2021: National Gender Strategy enacted 2033: after $4 trillion dollars and thousands of casualties, the US carries out a chaotic retreat from Gender, which is immediately overtaken by gender insurgents
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