#society #politic # [[Epistemic status]] #schroedinger-uncertain # The centralized state is obsolete >Instead, one part of the explanation for farmer power lies in the much denser populations that food production could support: ten naked farmers certainly would have an advantage over one naked hunter-gatherer in a fight. The other part is that neither farmers nor hunter-gatherers are naked, at least not figuratively. Farmers tend to breathe out nastier germs, to own better weapons and armor, to own more-powerful technology in general, and to live under centralized governments with literate elites better able to wage wars of conquest. Hence the next four chapters will explore how the ultimate cause of food production led to the proximate causes of germs, literacy, technology, and centralized government. >~ [[Jared Diamond]] If we have [[Decentralized Autonomous Organization|decentralized companies]], why not decentralized state altogether? Corporations, like [[Politic|the state]], are another kind of [[Philosophy/Humans/Story|story]] we like to make, and by story I mean what **Harari** so often argues about. > morality before the church, trade before the state, exchange before money, social contracts before Hobbes, welfare before human rights, culture before Babylon, society before Greece, self-interest before Adam Smith, greed before capitalism > ~ [[Matt Ridley]] The state has its origins in the emergence of trade, which required some laws to be enforced to ensure proper game-theoretic interactions. My idea of what we need to become a decentralized state is to automate the law using [[Artificial intelligence|artificial intelligence]], because the law is just a collection of heuristics, and to make the processes secure using [[Blockchain]]. I don’t want to be French or American or whatever, just human. > When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. > ~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]] But perhaps the idea of a decentralized state makes more sense when we are in space, as it will be much harder to hold the leash of centralization. ## History is flattening cooperation We went from very hierarchical society of the style of the Inca having 15000 women just for him, to kings, to decentralized, flat, society. ## Where is decentralized police? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/etuk3rsSz3iiXgcp7/louis-beaumont-s-shortform?commentId=9xQbgAzwCM37Ydzon#9xQbgAzwCM37Ydzon Actually we don’t need it or do we?