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A hacker once quipped: "Anarchy is that form of government where you don't get to choose who your dictator is."

by noch 6y ago

schwartzworld 6y ago
So, someone who didn't know anything about anarchy made a joke about it?
- noch 6y ago
  > So, someone who didn't know anything about anarchy Be wary of anarchist ideologues who: - Don't know the utility of jokes. - Don't discuss the game theory of social and economic arrangements and incentives. - Suggest anarchist utopias are stable equilibria. - Don't point out that externalising costs and harms is a local optimum in an adversarial situation. - Don't discuss what evolutionary biology[1] has taught us about fundamental hierarchy, that is: status, dominance, and prestige. - Don't discuss in-group bias, out-groups and intergroup competition, and lineage. - Don't discuss the features of successful societies that persist across cultures, time, populations, and species.[0] - Don't discuss the Dunbar limit of social networks and the problems of coordination and cooperation.[2] - Don't provide hard theoretical or experimental evidence for their claims. - Don't discuss the costs and tradeoffs of their hypotheses. --- [0]: Consider Economist Melissa Dell, on the effects of persistence across time https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/melissa-dell/ https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/melissa-dell/: " You see the towns that were part of the stronger, centralized state going back before colonialism, so several hundred years ago. More recently, they have better-functioning local governments. They’re richer. They’re better off, which shows that places that have a long history of governance seem better able to do that more recently. " [1]: [U]nderstanding that natural selection, acting on genes [...]generates non-genetic evolutionary processes capable of producing complex cultural adaptations. (Joseph Henrich, "The Secret of Our Success") [2]: Nicholas Christakis, "Blueprint:The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society": " Each mutineer had absolute dominion over his share of the island, and life was characterized by shifting private alliances. Social organization was fluid and unpredictable. The community had no legal code, no central political authority, and no monopoly on the use of force. Hence, given the absence of ties of friendship and meaningful ongoing cooperation, there was no reliable way to mediate disputes or enforce collective decisions. "
  - schwartzworld 6y ago
    Now that's a leftist meme!

A hacker once quipped: "Anarchy is that form of government where you don't get to choose who your dictator is."

by noch 6y ago

A hacker once quipped: "Anarchy is that form of government where you don't get to choose who your dictator is."

schwartzworld 6y ago

So, someone who didn't know anything about anarchy made a joke about it?

noch 6y ago
> So, someone who didn't know anything about anarchy Be wary of anarchist ideologues who: - Don't know the utility of jokes. - Don't discuss the game theory of social and economic arrangements and incentives. - Suggest anarchist utopias are stable equilibria. - Don't point out that externalising costs and harms is a local optimum in an adversarial situation. - Don't discuss what evolutionary biology[1] has taught us about fundamental hierarchy, that is: status, dominance, and prestige. - Don't discuss in-group bias, out-groups and intergroup competition, and lineage. - Don't discuss the features of successful societies that persist across cultures, time, populations, and species.[0] - Don't discuss the Dunbar limit of social networks and the problems of coordination and cooperation.[2] - Don't provide hard theoretical or experimental evidence for their claims. - Don't discuss the costs and tradeoffs of their hypotheses. --- [0]: Consider Economist Melissa Dell, on the effects of persistence across time https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/melissa-dell/ https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/melissa-dell/: " You see the towns that were part of the stronger, centralized state going back before colonialism, so several hundred years ago. More recently, they have better-functioning local governments. They’re richer. They’re better off, which shows that places that have a long history of governance seem better able to do that more recently. " [1]: [U]nderstanding that natural selection, acting on genes [...]generates non-genetic evolutionary processes capable of producing complex cultural adaptations. (Joseph Henrich, "The Secret of Our Success") [2]: Nicholas Christakis, "Blueprint:The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society": " Each mutineer had absolute dominion over his share of the island, and life was characterized by shifting private alliances. Social organization was fluid and unpredictable. The community had no legal code, no central political authority, and no monopoly on the use of force. Hence, given the absence of ties of friendship and meaningful ongoing cooperation, there was no reliable way to mediate disputes or enforce collective decisions. "
- schwartzworld 6y ago
  Now that's a leftist meme!