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Funny. Anarachism, like every other political philosophy, is not an antidote to stupidity. That said, it is easy to think that some other decision making mecha

Funny. Anarachism, like every other political philosophy, is not an antidote to stupidity. That said, it is easy to think that some other decision making mechanism (besides the rotating decision makers these guys were practicing) would always lead to better outcomes. A common consensus mechanism is decision by majority voting. Which often works, but often just picks the suboptimal solution, because it the average of the actual close to optimal solutions different subgroups are advocating for. Every decision making mechanisms has some failures (and advantages). It's good to know what they are.

duxup 2y ago
Even if just putting someone in charge of collecting some data that might say "looks like we feed more people with PPJ sandwiches than X,Y,Z, let's mix that into the rotation a bit more". Could even satisfy all parties. Unfortunately there's an underlying "i do what I want" in a lot of political philosophies where it just doesn't work that way, even for getting what they want..
squigz 2y ago
> Which often works, but often just picks the suboptimal solution, because it the average of the actual close to optimal solutions different subgroups are advocating for. It's called a compromise, and it's fairly critical to a functioning group of humans of literally any size.
Verdex 2y ago
| Anarachism, like every other political philosophy, is not an antidote to stupidity. Not necessarily picking on your comment in particular, but it does remind me of several (what I considered at the time) broken software development methodologies that I've encountered. Someone tells me their philosophy of development, I point out what I feel is a problematic edge case, they respond with something like the above: "well you still have to use your brain". It seems to me that everyone's real philosophy is just being sufficiently smart and the "formal" definition is really just brought out for story time.

duxup 2y ago

Even if just putting someone in charge of collecting some data that might say "looks like we feed more people with PPJ sandwiches than X,Y,Z, let's mix that into the rotation a bit more". Could even satisfy all parties. Unfortunately there's an underlying "i do what I want" in a lot of political philosophies where it just doesn't work that way, even for getting what they want..

squigz 2y ago

> Which often works, but often just picks the suboptimal solution, because it the average of the actual close to optimal solutions different subgroups are advocating for. It's called a compromise, and it's fairly critical to a functioning group of humans of literally any size.

Verdex 2y ago

| Anarachism, like every other political philosophy, is not an antidote to stupidity. Not necessarily picking on your comment in particular, but it does remind me of several (what I considered at the time) broken software development methodologies that I've encountered. Someone tells me their philosophy of development, I point out what I feel is a problematic edge case, they respond with something like the above: "well you still have to use your brain". It seems to me that everyone's real philosophy is just being sufficiently smart and the "formal" definition is really just brought out for story time.