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I kid, but I do think the problem he's pointing at is actually that the world currently runs on hierarchies rather than protocols
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Agreed! As a recovering libertarian I think my mistake was assuming that people could run on protocols and not institutions and culture.
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Sometimes someone says something you've been trying to articulate but can't put into a simple term, and it makes everything click. Hierarchies vs protocols is great. I've been casting it in terms of centralized vs distributed programming, but that was never quite the whole story.
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*computing, not programming. Your take adds the extra layer of needing an in house sysadmin to keep it all working or having the specs determine how the system runs with a few simple rules.
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This makes me think immediately of common vs civil law. Interesting that common law, which IMO recognizes hierarchies, originates from the same societies as libertarianism
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The hard part is that the protocol needs to be powerful enough to keep hierarchies from re-forming. That was essentially my dissertation topic. See also
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