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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 Purpose of Volunteerism

If you try to move there, then you're creating a conflict that puts you down into the Hobbesian trap in the lower left. In which Alice could argue, well, let's move there because it'll make me more better off than it will make you worse off. So I do believe that the recommendations we're making can be justified from a utilitarian value theory and other value theories. And I think that's the part of the appeal we're trying to make for volunteerism.

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