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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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What's the Role of Government in a Society That Thrives?

I worry that sometimes it's more like being the river I'm just a fat frog sitting in the leaf and a dirty muddy lake. What do you think what's the role of government in a society that thrives is anarchism at all compelling to you as a system for not just small government but no government at all? You don't see how this would work, he says. The government is an agent that imposes an offset on your reward um function on your payout matrix so it your behavior becomes compatible with the common good. He sees all government as fundamentally getting in the way or even being destructive to collaborations between human beings thriving.

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