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@ vinney | opfn.co
2025-02-22 18:19:01
You're right that I am probably overly optimistic that fixing the base layers propagates solutions to the "messier" parts of the world.
My biggest weakness is that I have high confidence that if you start from layers built from pure consent and voluntaryism, then the structures that emerge on top preserve those properties. (And similarly, that if you start off with sacrifices on those principles at upper layers and build backwards simultaneously, the two ends won't meet up)
Ultimately I think this is an empirical question. But I'm heartened to see it slowly being experimented on in cyberspace. If it can cross into physical reality (and at what scale?) is yet to be seen. But I 100% don't think that's what we're seeing in the US government today... Which makes me feel like this article is arguing a straw man to some degree