I’ve always suspected that dystopias are directly caused by utopians but now I have a working theory of how. It is a self-antifulfilling prophecy. If the fraction of utopians in a population crosses a threshold, a good-enough equilibrium will destabilize into a dystopia.
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Replying to @vgr
Absolute best work on this problem is James Scott's "Seeing Like a State" https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-state … the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge
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Replying to @doriantaylor @vgr
have you seen his newer one - did you suggest that to me? https://www.amazon.com/Against-Grain-History-Earliest-States/dp/0300182910 … debunks the idea that states are natural and how hard it was at first to get people to live in them.
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Yup. Read about a third then abandoned. Seemed legit but didn’t feel like going through the whole argument
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