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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    8. Leland Serr‏ @SerrLeland 26 Dec 2019
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      Wait have you been reading Capital too?

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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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    10. Leland Serr‏ @SerrLeland 26 Dec 2019
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      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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Dec 2019
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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.

      11:40 AM - 26 Dec 2019
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        1. Leland Serr‏ @SerrLeland 26 Dec 2019
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          Like a lot of people in tech I used to ignorantly reject these ideas without critically engaging them, but reality keeps proving them right

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