There’s a weirdly compelling intuition to me that the only real problem with the world is people second-guessing their own best judgments. Disagreement isn’t a problem, conflicting interests aren’t a problem, ignorance isn’t a problem; those are all necessary conditions of life.
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A generally robust pattern here is the double Morton effect, aka survival of the stupidest. In n>2 games, stupidity can be adaptive, and thus can create room for malice to be adaptive as well. I haven’t worked out the full argument.https://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/survival_stupidest-77846 …
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This is a cool complication!
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A general weakness of what I consider a libertarian predisposition to analyzing social problems and proposing solutions in terms of 1:1 behaviors OR 1:hivemind behaviors, is not recognizing ubiquity of 2 < n < hivemind dynamics in nearly all social vulnerabilities.
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