Starring game theory expert Liv Boeree, Faces of Capitalism seeks to integrate the insights of pro-capitalism and anti-capitalism into a synthesis view.Faces of X is a reader-supported publication.
Thanks for going beyond the binary choice of C vs S. There is something that I've only seen Thomas Friedman allude to that is a major critique of capitalism that you didn't mention. It destroys intermediate levels of organization between individual humans and states or large companies (e.g. villages, tribes and small companies). It's as if we had a force that destroyed our organs, cells, and organelles, and left us as a soup of organic molecules. The reason for intermediate levels is a cost/benefit analysis. The more parts, the more synergy, but also the higher the cost at each level, so beyond a certain (Dunbar-like) number of parts, it makes sense to abstract a new level and reset the marginal costs to zero. Our bodies don't have to keep track of (incentivize and punish and monitor) millions of organic molecules. Organelles have tens of them to deal with, cells have tens of organelles, organs have hundreds of cells (skin has trillions, too many, cancer can happen easily in the skin), and our bodies only 10s of organs. This in turn leads to a way to avoid Molochian dynamics. There is a way to improve this aspect of capitalism, following the nested organization of our bodies.
The book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman alludes to it. I've written about it on my substack in several articles, and the research is still ongoing (so far just theoretical and computational evolutionary game theory that should lead to an article in the journal Evolution). I'm trying to get others interested in the ideas. I thought Daniel Schmactenberger and other people on his team would be interested, but so far I have failed to convey these ideas to them, for whatever reasons. So I need help! But also debate and trying to find flaws in my ideas, in a good faith conversation.
It's also not clear that our bodies give as much autonomy/subsidiarity to their parts as we would like humans to have in a family, tribe, nation, etc (it might be more of a totalitarian scenario than a third attractor).
Also, it relates to another possible way to get to AGI, mimicking how nature seems to do cognition from organelles all the way to the human brain, in a nested level network topology.
Please start by reading my substack articles. The Evolution article will be too technical for you. To get a flavor for why I say that, you can try downloading and reading the last one I published (The emergence of group fitness) here:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Congleton/research. You don't need to read the technical stuff though to have a good conversation about the basic ideas (which are no-brainers once you understand them).
What is America's version of capitalism? It's organized crime, monopolies, cloud capitalist techno-feudalism, and "crackpot realism" - not an organically organized economic ideology with a foundation of free markets. This is one of my core areas of study and there's evidence to prove everything I assert here. Great work!
"Episode 2 of 5 - 'The Con,' Watch Party & Discussion Group, with Jeff Thomas Black & Rose Ann Miele"
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Love Liv!
Thanks for going beyond the binary choice of C vs S. There is something that I've only seen Thomas Friedman allude to that is a major critique of capitalism that you didn't mention. It destroys intermediate levels of organization between individual humans and states or large companies (e.g. villages, tribes and small companies). It's as if we had a force that destroyed our organs, cells, and organelles, and left us as a soup of organic molecules. The reason for intermediate levels is a cost/benefit analysis. The more parts, the more synergy, but also the higher the cost at each level, so beyond a certain (Dunbar-like) number of parts, it makes sense to abstract a new level and reset the marginal costs to zero. Our bodies don't have to keep track of (incentivize and punish and monitor) millions of organic molecules. Organelles have tens of them to deal with, cells have tens of organelles, organs have hundreds of cells (skin has trillions, too many, cancer can happen easily in the skin), and our bodies only 10s of organs. This in turn leads to a way to avoid Molochian dynamics. There is a way to improve this aspect of capitalism, following the nested organization of our bodies.
Wow, I've never heard this critique! It's beautiful. Very biomimick-ey. Do you have a link for it?
The book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman alludes to it. I've written about it on my substack in several articles, and the research is still ongoing (so far just theoretical and computational evolutionary game theory that should lead to an article in the journal Evolution). I'm trying to get others interested in the ideas. I thought Daniel Schmactenberger and other people on his team would be interested, but so far I have failed to convey these ideas to them, for whatever reasons. So I need help! But also debate and trying to find flaws in my ideas, in a good faith conversation.
It's also not clear that our bodies give as much autonomy/subsidiarity to their parts as we would like humans to have in a family, tribe, nation, etc (it might be more of a totalitarian scenario than a third attractor).
Also, it relates to another possible way to get to AGI, mimicking how nature seems to do cognition from organelles all the way to the human brain, in a nested level network topology.
Sounds BRILLIANT. I'd love to read whatever you end up writing......
Please start by reading my substack articles. The Evolution article will be too technical for you. To get a flavor for why I say that, you can try downloading and reading the last one I published (The emergence of group fitness) here:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Congleton/research. You don't need to read the technical stuff though to have a good conversation about the basic ideas (which are no-brainers once you understand them).
Will do, thank you! <3
What is America's version of capitalism? It's organized crime, monopolies, cloud capitalist techno-feudalism, and "crackpot realism" - not an organically organized economic ideology with a foundation of free markets. This is one of my core areas of study and there's evidence to prove everything I assert here. Great work!
"Episode 2 of 5 - 'The Con,' Watch Party & Discussion Group, with Jeff Thomas Black & Rose Ann Miele"
https://www.youtube.com/live/4CP7plH659Q?si=UsUhkxNsw4ZKvu2h