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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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Will the Global Mob Survive?

The global mob uses legal mechanisms to enforce its power. To what degree can we limit or destroy such mechanisms? Well, my claim is that you can actually destroy these mechanisms fairly consistently. And fairly strategically. Destroy sounds a little strong, but you make circumvent in a case, for example, that the mob doesn't reach everywhere all the time with full force. That's different than like exterminating the mob, making no longer effect. Yeah, the kind of like legal structures that exist that give the mob power. Those are the things that I mean destroying in this aspect. The mob, the mob can survive for now. But there is the question, will it. Or more where can you

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