The closest thing we have to a decentralized community, which is not coincidentally also the closest thing we have to an AGI, is the American-style free market. And that has speculative boom-bust as a defining feature since tulips.
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“Extraordinary communitarian delusions and the madness of decentralized communities”
Exhibit A: Jo Freeman, tyranny of structurelessness
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Hypothesis: All apparently well-posed problems featuring moving goalposts are equivalent to each other. Goalposts-complete problems
You can’t define them in terms of platonic ideals of what they are, only as a series of Cauchy-convergent approximations away from what they’re not
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Goalposts-complete problems
1. AGI
2. Ideal government
3. Decentralized community
4. Meaning
5. Creativity
6. Humor
7. Narrative
The moment you think you have a specification the intension of the problem shifts unpredictably in your head plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-
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Simple facts, like capitals, names. Recipes, ikea instructions, driving directions, making steel, heavier-than-air flight… blurry edges are not moving goalposts
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Nah, you’re conflating corner cases and solution breaks with fundamental ambiguity. It’s rhetorically dramatic to claim everything is goalposts complete but I don’t think it’s true in any useful sense
