[FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

[Marcus Daniels]

Ok, repeated unusually big wildfires or hurricanes would not be of the revolution type of perturbation because those are less coupled to a low-dimensional artificial control system.    Revolutionaries are just turning knobs in ham-handed ways trying to change a much more complicated system without really knowing what one is doing.   The system rebounds to an equilibrium.

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The "heating" refers to an over-simplified optimization analogy, particularly low-dimensional and where the landscape is static. If you allow more nuanced actions other than breaking the law or violence, then the "heat" can be anything from walking down main street with a BLM sign to gathering initiative signatures to pretty much any other form of action.

What fraction of the population has to "get involved" in these non-voting ways? The answer depends on the type of "heat" you want to generate. Our snowflake trigger cancel culture is working to some extent. Our "bring your guns to town" culture is working to some extent. Use of tools like onion routing work. Etc. If the son of your friend is too lazy or disinterested to come up with his own satisfying ways to act, now, then it's difficult for me to prescribe one action or another, much less how *emphatic* he should be in those actions.


On 9/14/20 4:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Well, I think of a son of a friend of mine.   He seems bewildered as to why he should vote.   To him, the revolution will come and will change things in unrecognizable ways.   What fraction of the population has to ignore the law or use violence to be analogous to heating?   Where energy barriers are small compared to the kinetics of individuals?  Or it just never happens?


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