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<div dir="ltr">There's no system of governance that hasn't been
corrupted. They're all the worst forms of governance ever
invented, except for the alternative of dealing with a group of
self-selected fellow citizens under no system of governance
whatsoever.
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<p>And being a fan of James Scott (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6477876-the-art-of-not-being-governed">The
Art of not Being Governed</a> and Against the Grain) I am
inclined to respect this POV while on the other end, I also am
quite the fan of Michael Levin's perspective on "what is life?"
with all of it's spread across scale and across complexity and
across species (in the broadest sense). <br>
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<p>Until we might evolve from a slime-mold with psuedopods searching
around and intruding/interpenetrating into oneanother seeking
concentrated resources (like Russia's into Ukraine and now
vice-versa, or Israel/Palestine/Lebanon/???). Might we
(collectively) become something more like a "proper" multicellular
creature or a balanced, healthy ecosystem (or system of
ecosystems)?</p>
<p>We have (only) been experimenting with large-scale
self-organizing systems of humanity with lots of technological
scaffolding (lithics/copper/bronze/iron/steel through antimatter,
quantum dots, and nanotech, just to name a few?) and
religio/socio/philosopho/politco linguistic technology for a
handful (or two) of millenia, so it doesn't surprise me that we
haven't wandered/mutated-selected our way into anything better
than we have to date.</p>
<p>I am (very guardedly) hopeful that the acceleration of the latter
(linguistic technology) in LLMs and other ML/AI (material
technology) will give us the possibility of rushing this phase
forward. PInker might claim we have had material (and
psycho-social-spiritual) advancement over the centuries and
decades and maybe he is right in some sense... but the
leap-forward in collective self-governance/regulation/homeostasis
we can all seem to imagine living under feels beyond our
(heretofore?) grasp. <br>
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<p>For better or worse, it feels to me that Kurzweil for all his
nonsense in predicting an imminent singularity may be right... we
will either self-organize in a Asimovian Foundation/Psychohistory
galaxy-spanning culture (almost surely not) future or implode in a
Mad Max (or grey-goo/planet-krypton) apocalypse. Maybe even in my
lifetime, almost assuredly in my children or grandchildren's?<br>
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