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··· 10 10 - Stronger and more powerful [[organizations]]. 11 11 - Tools like smart contracts that allow interactions with reduced levels of trust. 12 12 - [[Governance]] technologies (voting, shares, decision markets...). 13 13 + - Groups either coordinate around principles, coordinate around a task (powerful but temporary), or coordinate around a leader. 14 14 + - Principles are factories of tasks and more resilient than leaders. 13 15 - [Keep the work parallel, the groups small, and the resources local.](https://codahale.com/work-is-work/) If possible, factor work products into independent modules; if not, grow slowly and optimize. 14 16 - Trust increases coordination. To increase trust: 15 17 1. Repeat interactions. ··· 36 38 - Something similar could be achieved at a society level, where pain triggers processes that make it stop. 37 39 - Only a few bits of information are possible to reliably convey to a large number of people. [The larger the group, the smaller the message needs to be](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-get-about-five-words). 38 40 - The requirements to govern a commons without tragedy: 39 39 - - Clear boundaries. 41 41 + - [Clear boundaries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#%22Design_principles_illustrated_by_long-enduring_CPR_(Common_Pool_Resource)_institutions%22). 40 42 - Managed by locals. 41 43 - In a small community, everybody knows everybody, and can keep track of what they do. This makes small groups iterated games which rewards trust and penalizes sociopath behavior. 42 44 - Community makes its own rules.

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··· 62 62 > Even if Louis XV had offered a large monetary bounty for ways to immunize himself against the pox, he would have had no way to distinguish Benjamin Jesty from the endless crowd of snake-oil sellers and faith healers and humoral balancers. Indeed, top medical "experts" of the time would likely have warned him *away* from Jesty. — [What Money Cannot Buy](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YABJKJ3v97k9sbxwg/what-money-cannot-buy) 63 63 64 64 - We all have a web of concepts in our minds, our [[Knowledge Graphs]]. The collection of all the concepts we understand, all of our existing knowledge and intuitions, connected together. And you have learned something when you can convert it to concepts and **connect it to your existing understanding**. This means not just understanding the concept itself, but understanding where it fits into the bigger picture, where to use it, etc. 65 65 + - Knowledge is not as a hunt for a single, ultimate and universal truth. [Is similar to the spirit of ecology: a gradual evolution of stably coexisting diversity that speciates and complexifies as it develops](https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/why-i-am-a-pluralist/). 65 66 66 67 ## Learning Soft Skills 67 68

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··· 2 2 3 3 - [Plurality is a political philosophy and framework](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/21/plurality.html) that seeks to create mechanisms for large-scale cooperation while preserving diversity and autonomy. 4 4 - Plurality stands between [[Governance|Technocracy]] and [[Decentralized Autonomous Organizations|Libertarianism]], offering a third way that emphasizes connections between individuals and groups. 5 5 + - The core element is the principle of [cooperation across diversity](https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/why-i-am-a-pluralist/). 5 6 - Plurality recognizes that there is no single model that can explain the world perfectly, and we should use a combination of different models instead. 6 6 - - Key ideas of [Plurality](https://www.plurality.net/): 7 7 - - [[Identity]] should be intersectional and social, using the entire set of a person's actions and interactions to determine trustworthiness. 8 8 - - [[Governance]] mechanisms should count uncorrelated signals additively but correlated signals with diminishing returns. 9 9 - - [[Organizations|Organizations]] should allow different degrees of membership, not just true-or-false. 10 10 - - Local currencies and property rights can coexist with global mechanisms for cooperation. 7 7 + - Pluralism has two sides: institutional (fostering cooperation between diverse groups vs. atomistic individualism or centralistic universalism) and epistemic (embracing diverse ways of knowing vs. single rational logic or technocracy). 8 8 + - Plurality offers a distinct technological vision from AI (which seeks singular "general" intelligence) and Web3 (which focuses on "sovereign individuals"), instead building on the internet's "network of networks" architecture where diverse local communities use interoperable protocols. 9 9 + - [[Identity]] should be intersectional and social, using the entire set of a person's actions and interactions to determine trustworthiness. 10 10 + - [[Governance]] mechanisms should count uncorrelated signals additively but correlated signals with diminishing returns. 11 11 + - [[Organizations|Organizations]] should allow different degrees of membership, not just true-or-false. 12 12 + - Local currencies and property rights can coexist with global mechanisms for cooperation. 13 13 + - We should understand the world through a patchwork combination of models, and not try to stretch any single model to beyond its natural applicability 14 14 + - There is a set of principled mathematical techniques by which you can design social, political and economic mechanisms that treat not just individuals, but also connections between individuals as a first-class object. 15 15 + - We should take connections between individuals really seriously, and work to expand and strengthen healthy connections. 11 16 - Plurality technologies include: 12 17 - [Polis](https://pol.is/home) for large-scale conversations that identify consensus across different viewpoints. 13 18 - [Community Notes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Notes) that surface content rated highly by people who disagree on other topics.