Note that according to Scott himself the best modern form of seeimg like a state was an invention of private corporations (Taylorism) from where it spread to states, including both US and USSR. Waterfall planning came out of corporations too. 5y plans have corporate origins.
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When I use the term “good bureaucracy” I mean it not in a moral sense but in the sense “true to its essential Taoist nature.” Good is merely all that has demonstrable persistence and can be perpetuated without undoing anything else.
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Accretion displaces arbitrary definitions of “Progress” made up by morally self-important types that are always Regress to an opposed breed of moralist. Bureaucracy does an end run around that.
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Tired: Progress studies
Wired: Accretion studies
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I’m not trying to troll friends or mint haters. If you have genuine criticism of my theory, please submit it via Form 42, in triplicate. We are an open, responsive bureaucracy in this thread. Appropriate Actions will be taken in response to all feedback
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I thought of the perfect title for the essay I think I should write about this: Windmills of the Mods
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The essay will also feature blockchains, and given recent experiences of Indian bureaucracy that inspired this thread, also what are known as babus (bureaucrats). We will discuss Blockchain Babus.
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There is definitely some sort of natural Indian bureaucrat gene. At the risk of culturally essentializing My People, the "Indian CEO" stage of a tech company is also the "bureaucratization" stage. Consolidate and entrench.
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Also ML. The inside of a bureaucracy is actually surprisingly squishy and wibbly-wobbly gooey procedural knowledge, not machine like. A bureaucracy is a large language model wrapped in a blockchain, all human powered.
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I think I need to sub "true" for "good" in my model of the essential tao-of-the-bureau bureaucracy. In the sense that Hermes Conrad on Futurama aspires to be a true bureaucrat.
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Good example. "First do no harm" is also a "don't backslide" isomorph of sorts twitter.com/MattAlhonte/st
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Very niche joke 😂
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The inner bureaucracy
Inter family systems but you have multiple babus in you
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I'm particularly fascinated with how you'd accomodate malicious bureaucracy in this theory, like TRAP laws in the United States or Indian Act agents in Canada.


