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Markets are some of the best tools we have at coordinating behavior in a decentralized way. I wouldn't advocate some capitalist wasteland. For example if we added market dynamics t…

Assuming you can't also choose to move yourself and your assets to another country offering better terms. That's how the dynamics are changing. Peter Thiel and New Zealand are a sm…

The money exists in a closed system controlled by a central banking system. You might move your money around but the control remains. I didn't mean to imply that my free will is at…

It is a balancing weight because the states military power depends on a landed citizenry that is easily taxed. If you remove the easily taxed part you also remove the military powe…

Right. But every change in the societal order will be illegal by definition. Its more that our capabilities to rebel are increased over time. We would all be in feudal bondage if m…

Voluntary taxation might be taken as just asking people to pay taxes which I am thinking is a bit of a strawman. If instead you chose to pay for the services you wanted and subsidi…

A customer relationship is different in that the feedback loop between your wants/desires and the governing body is more immediate. The rules that were arrived at seem to be less a…

For example, Keynsian economics requires everyone to be forced to save through a central banking system. Otherwise the whole thing collapses. Keynsian economics has dominated the l…

What about the idea that it acts as a balancing weight to the perverse incentives for countries to debase their currency? Radically if the relationship to taxation was more of a vo…

The kind of men particularly predisposed to aggression need an outlet that is not war or tearing each other apart. That is not a waste of time and resources. Probably does a lot of…

I think the criterion of tolerance depends on if the beliefs are open to falsification or not. Nazis are not up for a debate about their ideas and so can be punched. I think misinf…

You can roll this yourself with Cells ( https://github.com/trailblazer/cells ) and Stimulus Reflex ( https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/ ). I've been watching view_component too but t…

This article focuses on micropayments for consumers for something like movies or news subscriptions. But what about micropayments for something like micro work. Platforms like Amaz…

Thomas Sowell splits it down collectivist lines: "If we attempt to define the political left by its proclaimed goals, it is clear that very similar goals have been proclaimed by pe…

What was the book he recommends at the beginning? It is hard to make out. Also can anybody recommend their resources for machine learning or AI in general?