Think of designing a building. If you know the prevailing wind is going to N --> S, you can design a stiff building that presents a knife-edge NS and looks like a sail EW. It is vulnerable to anomalous EW winds. But a tree-like not-stiff building can handle any wind direction.
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This might be what did the IDW in ultimately. It adopted a stiff, anisotropic resistance posture against a wind from one direction and made itself highly vulnerable to winds from other directions.
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The first 2 principles in this thread are not quite boneless, since they are meant to counterprogram specific tactics (weaponized "debate" and appeals to first-principles "wonk logic") and therefore exhibit some ideological anisotropy. But they are at least energy-damping.
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There are risks to the boneless way. Recall in the case of the Ents joining the war in LOTR, they only cut short extended slow debate and acted after seeing a bunch of forest already destroyed. Still, when a real-urgency time constraint became evident, they did act to speed up.
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One of the risk-management disciplines in applying the boneless way is learning to tell real urgency emerging from a situation apart from false urgency (or lack of urgency) created by an adversary attempting to alter your tempo of deliberation/action.
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Two kinds of errors: type A: believing false urgency manufactured by an adversary is real, and type B: believing real urgency is false and manufactured by an adversary. The boneless way btw, is to not try to correct anyone's urgency errors except your own.
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Upon googling, I find I've cited Bartleby in the domestic cozy blogchain rather than mediocratopia one. There's an intersection here. Domestic cozy bonelessness is retreat based and tends to cede agency. Strategic mediocrity bonelessness tends to protect and preserve agency.
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Hmm. Wonder if this is worth writing up as a stand-alone blog post outside the blogchain matrix.
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If I had to distill this into a single principle it would be this: be very suspicious of anyone who wants you to spend energy without paying you. Even if you don't care about getting paid. When wealth and power are concentrated, human energy is the default currency.
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No, this seems like a relatively obvious idea. Is it in das kapital too? Never read it.
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Replying to @vgr
It is the core idea behind the labor theory of value -- I think the book is a lot better than the accompanying culture that was created alongside it. Fits very nicely between Ricardo and Mises. Obviously it's old, has some outdated ideas, and some sensational chapters, still...
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I suppose it's a basic assumption everyone makes now. "We are all Marxists now" at a baseline level relative to his uncontroversial conceptual advances.
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