EP7 Daniel Schmachtenberger and the Evolution of Technology
The Jim Rutt Show
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The Multipolar Trap: Why We Justify Creating States
Public choice theory is basically the critique of the wrongness of the incentive structures of government agents associated with markets. It's a classic libertarian critique of the regulatory process on markets. And then I want to do a construction on what's wrong with them together, because I have to refer to what'swrong with each one individually before I can do the combined thing. All right, you go right ahead. Okay, so basically anything that has bottom-up coordination only, but abstraction mediated capacities like markets is going to fall to multipolar traps and exponential tech will be catastrophically bad. Then this is at least the story of a major reason why we justify creating states: We don't want everybody
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