> any day now technology will reverse the millennia-long trend in the logic of power, and states will become weaker and smaller. Any day now, I promise - big brain silicon valley intellectuals
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A bit of gentle mockery is occasionally appropriate. Balances of power are highly unstable, held back only by diseconomies of scale, which technology consistently decreases.
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Black pill?
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Only for libertarians. If freedom means absence of power, you're screwed. But there are other reasonable goals, like freedom to act according to natural law.
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Freedom doesn’t mean absence of power for rights wing libertarians afaik. Only monopolized power. But still foreboding.
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Power monopolizes by nature, but there is an important distinction btwn having power within a larger power order, and getting crushed by a larger power order.
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Haha. I was waiting for the power-monopolizes after writing last tweet
perhaps think about it as monopolized power structures are robust but not antifragile. -
Nature dictates hierarchy, but whether that hierarchy is decentralized and antifragile, or centralized and fragile, and how that power is deployed, is a more open choice.
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