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David Friedman | Gaming the Future, Chapter 4: SKIM THE MANUAL | Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation.

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Importance of Respecting One Another's Rights

Both parties are better off if they can reach an agreement, but each one wants the agreement in his direction. "I would prefer the version where I also don't pay him $5," he says of a neighbor who throws garbage over fence. The book explains how it's possible to have a society which is not a Hobbesian state of nature.

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