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As a kid I remember wondering why all the countries that exist seem to be jerks. Why aren't there any nice countries? Then I thought about it for another 5 seco
by andai 7mo ago
As a kid I remember wondering why all the countries that exist seem to be jerks. Why aren't there any nice countries? Then I thought about it for another 5 seconds and it made a lot more sense.
- Pay08 7mo agoI'd very much hesitate characterising countries as a whole.
- andai 7mo agoNo I mean if you set up a simulation where there's a bunch of entities who are chill and a bunch of entities who are not chill, and then you run the simulation... Wait a minute, that rings a bell! https://ncase.me/trust/ https://ncase.me/trust/
- Pay08 7mo agoBy that logic, every single human should be a psychopath by now.
- BLKNSLVR 7mo agoI think that's far from true, going by the simulation game thingy.
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- BLKNSLVR 7mo agoThat game / simulation is fantastic. Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna pass it on at work. More than fantastic, it's beautiful.
- BobaFloutist 7mo agoCooperation usually beats out competition though. Which is why for all that things look bad right now, alliances of at least modestly liberal countries have handily dominated and out-competed most autocracies. And the autocracies that have thrived have mostly done so by liberalizing, at least a little.