We are a social species, yet attempts to codify social behavior leads to bad politics (progressivism and traditionalism) We are a high-coordination species, yet attempts to systematize coordination leads to bad economics (collectivism, localism, and now naive blockchainism)
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Every time you attempt to build an institution or organization these are always the central questions. There are no eternal and universal answers. Only particular configurations that work for a specific group for a specific period of time, under certain environmental conditions.
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“What is THIS environment like, and how do we enable good social dynamics and collective action here and now for THIS group” is a more interesting and well-posed question than looking for universal and timeless principles. There is no perfect society or mode of collective action.
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Through creation of institutions with *fallible* mechanisms, codes, rules, institutions that allow and are predicated on change and error correction. Surprisingly that's what our own western european culture discovered, and what our institutions do!
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These institutions have the miraculous property of remaining stable under rapid and ever accelerating change; if you look at the institutions of other civilizations before ours, they are apparently more stable to the individuals that make it up, but they are also static and dead
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