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Thought I’ve been pondering. The lower left of the political compass (left libertarian) is unique in not having a clear definition or caricatured archetype. Left-authoritarian: actual Stalin Right-authoritarian: actual Hitler Right-libertarian: Ayn Randians Left-libertarian: ?
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Left libertarian = intersection of South Park fans, Rick and Morty fans, Doctor Who fans, and a touch of Star Trek fans too (though you could argue Star Trek is aestheticized left authoritarian due to latent militarism, and bureaucratic slant to what us otherwise meritocracy)
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Rick in Rick and Morty is the closest for me but has the drawback of being fictional. A defining moment in LL identity asssertion is when Dan Harmon distanced himself firmly from the danker part of the RL fandom
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It looks like a prerequisite is an identity system. We cant align with human values closely unless we have something that trustlessly quantifies the preferences of unique humans. Otherwise we are left with money, which only vaguely aligns and sometimes conflicts with human values
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Working on this, actually. Would work through an app like — USD in the front, crypto in the back. If we can write smart contracts that give money directly to people in need, and a UI that allows them to withdraw in USD like any bank... it's a start.
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Between the lines of every left-libertarian 90s book (SLAS), the answer was meant to be markets ("capitalism is how we take care of people we don't know") but then whoops it turns out oligarchs emerged in the former USSR, and globalization whittled away the middle.
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