Treading Carefully 0.1: Continuing from yesterday's thread on the definitions of the Acc strands, it was - roughly - agreed that the contention between the 2 currently deadlocked camps (U/Acc & R/Acc) is in actuality a question of free will -
A binary hierarchy of that which is being (survived, alive) and that which is dead. That hierarchy flattens quite quickly due to the fact the dead have no effect on it.
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it's not like there isn't endless competition among the living
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You've completely missread my point. Hierarchy isn't the same as competition. People can compete but still not adhere to a common objective better or worse.
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competition necessarily produces dynamic hierarchy (to the extent that some succeed and others fail). of course, it destroys static hierarchy. but the existence of static hierarchy is atithetical to acceleration.
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What about status hierarchy in the short term as a means for wealth utilisation?
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isn't that wealth better spent on machinery?
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Machinery that will never be made because people can't organize themselves.
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there's no higher incentive to organisation than relentless competition. I'm really not getting your point here. you think the ancien regime's aristocracy was good at organising capital production?
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Each step in history got us closer to organising capital production did it not?
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