
Meditations on Moloch [Classic]
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Strongest Conservative Argument for Authoritarianism
The strongest argument for authoritarianism is that multipolar traps are likely to destroy us. We should shift the tyranny multip multipolarity trade-off towards a rationally planned garden which requires centralized monarchical authority and strongly binding traditions, he says. "I think this is one of the strongest conservative arguments just as a random change to a letter in the human genome will probably deleterious rather than beneficial since humans are a complicated fine-tuned system"
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