This is a good read, Sovereign Individual fans!
Whenever the Sovereign Individual comes up in conversation, or when I’m on a podcast, I always quip that the entire book can be summed up in one word: incentives.
But at the same time, the world we live in now contains numerous, publicly available levers that individuals can use to both express their autonomy as well as amplify it. As I mentioned on a recent podcast, now “everybody has the bomb”. The “bomb” being: literacy, effectively free access to all the information and knowledge ever accumulated by humanity, peer-to-peer communications at the speed of light, encryption, decentralized non-state money (Bitcoin), and now, AI.
599 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 30 Jan
I like to say "if a product doesn't change incentives, it can only help history repeat faster"
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 30 Jan
Anything whose primary difference isn’t changing incentives. I’m not maligning them. Making history (or anything) happen faster is very valuable. Changing incentives is just more durable.
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Incentives are everywhere and once you train yourself to find them you can't unsee them.
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This didn't make any sense until I read the part between these two quotes. The point is that incentives have become even more important as global communications and literacy have arisen.
Since reading SovInd, I've become more accepting of the chaos of the world. Incentives are just more cogs in the emergent chaos of the whole thing, as are individual actions, as is access to energy and money. The question is, knowing the importance of incentives, what incentive would you like to change to what end?
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You mean AI will define the course of the waters for humanity.
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Words are everything and as an extension to that law is. We can just make things illegal and it will cease to exist and we can say someone is a racist and it will magically be so.
Words and law for the win :)
I will walk myself out
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Interesting as always with @siggy47
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