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> If software engineers united behind true ideals of freedom

You'd have better luck trying to remove jealousy from the human heart. If you can suggest a mechanism for actually making this happen, enforcing it in the face of economic incentives, and measuring it's actual impact then I'll take the ride with you. Until then it is an absolute fools errand.

> we could automate the entire stack of "leadership" and raise the floor of society.

Autonomous societies have been tried before. They have no mechanism to correctly align their long term objectives so none of them have ever lasted. Planning to build another one based on nothing other than assumption is flawed.

> with freedom unalienably encoded into the fabric of the social machine.

Guns exist. The social machine is secondary to force. You have no plan for this.

> This mindset can extend into a multi-planetary society and beyond.

Older people sell younger people pure unadulterated fantasies in order to extract cheap labor from them.



> If you can suggest a mechanism for actually making this happen, enforcing it in the face of economic incentives, and measuring it's actual impact then I'll take the ride with you.

:)




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