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Similar to what I think. I don't think our current nation states are capable of handling the problems of the next century. I am quite at a loss to think of something that could actually replace them though.
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Virtual republics? Similar to the ones in "Snow Crash". I know Arnold Kling talked about them years back (not sure if he still favors the idea.)
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The public is cycling at an unprecedented Khz. We need a software update in our organizational mainframe. Democracy has been stuxnetted. The conserve faction wants to re install the old operating system.
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here's an aspirational 2x2 X-axis: Power Structure extremes Old boys club <-----> Tragedy of commons Y-Axis: Delivery extremes of Maslow services (water, housing, food, mobility, opportunity) Delivery ^ | | | v Posture / Incompetence / Virtue signalling
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We need less inventions of novel bs solutions & more organizations of engagement — systems that can mobilize and engage human beings precisely when we are at our most motivated. This is WW III and everyone knows it. If nation states don’t do it, independent orgs will step in.