[extropy-chat] Heinlein and thinking for yourself

[Damien Broderick]

At 12:17 PM 10/30/2004 -0700, Adrian wrote:


>thus a central
>government must operate (and collect funding for)
>these improvements if their benefits are to be reaped.
>Others can, for various (including technical) reasons,
>be funded and operated a lot more efficiently if done
>so by one or a few agencies on behalf of everyone,
>rather than each obtaining their own, so again more
>progress per unit time is enabled by having government
>do this than by leaving it to individuals.  (Also
>known as the "tragedy of the commons".)

More exactly: also known as *avoiding* or *circumventing* the tragedy of 
the commons.

Damien Broderick