On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:18:19PM +0530, Amit Varma wrote: > Very nice piece, Udhay. I loved "The Machinery of Freedom", it's a great > primer on anarcho libertarianism, lucid and compelling. But it seems to me > that anarchy is unstable in the sense that governments (and states) of some > sort are inevitable. In any situation where no one is in charge, it is
Degree of cooperation (or defection) is a function of the agent's intelligence (ability to track past interactions), and frequency of interaction. In humans cooperation is empirically also a function of consensus/climate. The same kind of agent makeup can support a wide spectrum of degrees of cooperation/defection. > inevitable that you'll have power politics, with affiliations forming on the > basis of territory or common interests or shared ethnicity or whatever. > That's human nature. And those struggles will result in governments and Human nature needs not be a constant. We've been running on unsupported neolithic firmware for too long. > states of some sort. > > That's just my personal feeling on the subject, of course: we have no way of > finding out. But of course we have. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
