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> What problems are people trying to solve with decentralization? oh, just systemic hierarchy.
by mr_spothawk 9y ago
> What problems are people trying to solve with decentralization?
oh, just systemic hierarchy.
- danbruc 9y agoI am not exactly sure what you mean with that, but what is the problem with it that requires a solution? Can you give a concrete example?
- mr_spothawk 9y agoyou only have to look back as far as Exodus 18:17 to understand where the literal patriarchy comes from in the christian tradition. I like to imagine the story was not created then, but written down & translated a handful of times out of oral histories. oral histories that helped our ancestors survive & coordinate. to me it looks like our systems for coordinating as humans aren't really well suited for anything _other_ than hierarchy. so we're in the process of finding out (now) whether our ancestors will have the ability to coordinate in an evolutionarily competitive way (as in a decentralized way), or if we'll be subsumed by the machine in some less competitive way. and I wonder how they'll look back on our religious traditions when they consider us then...