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With the decline in war, have we lost the selective pressure which makes governments improve over time? There are many other layers of selection (companies within markets, political parties within elections). But there's no ground truth outer loss on the system as a whole.

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Dwarkesh Patel1 year ago

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Moses Kagan1 year ago

Strongly recommend this book

Jess Riedel1 year ago

Emigration, and subsequent marginal loss of economic power, is a form of outside selection. Insofar as we focus specifically on control of territory (so that emigration is not considered selection so long as gov't remains in power), selection could be restored (without costly war) if territory sales and swaps somehow become more common.

Augustus Decimus1 year ago

Had to do a double take. Thought it was toto wolff

D E N O I S E R1 year ago

Goddamn this is an extremely good point.

Quizmaster China1 year ago

governments become less horrible; government is about violence. the use of violence to restrain violence. an effective government no longer exists. this is partly what marx meant by "the withering of the state" power becomes Pointless in a world of abundance.

Jon Burks1 year ago

@TheAnnaGat Great episode 👍

Abel TM1 year ago

This position is reactionary as f**k 🤦. I understand that with current events people may be losing faith on humanity, but no, peace is the big benefactor of society and culture

Jonas Korreborg Bertelsen1 year ago

This episode was soooo good, really gave some perspective on our history and future!

molinari1 year ago

analogously, modern medical innovations are bad because they allow bad genes to survive and continuously passed down

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