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> "To have a maximally creative society, you have to have freedom, you have to have liberty, and therefore you will have a non-violent society. You’ll have a so
by lainga 5y ago
> "To have a maximally creative society, you have to have freedom, you have to have liberty, and therefore you will have a non-violent society. You’ll have a society that values creativity as an end in itself. ...They can gather all the matter, they can create anything they want, and they can have any reality in VR space that they want."
The post turns a very narrow Whig conception of Earth history into a law of sapient development. I am not sure how to read it except that it is predicated on the galaxy being gene-seeded by a species of Francis Fukuyamas.
- whimsicalism 5y agoVery well put, but Whig historiography seems popular on HN.
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