[ExI] Under the libertarian yoke was Re: Next Decade May See No Warming

[Emlyn]

2008/5/3 Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>:
> It wouldn't be a matter of a few people forcing their views on
> everyone else. The issue is that, as Jef said, the superrational
> course of action is to cooperate, while the "rational" course of
> action is to defect.
>
> The two choices are:
>
> (a) no-one is compelled to do anything - everyone gets 50 units of utility;
> (b) everyone is forced to cooperate - everyone gets 100 units of utility.
>
> Knowing all this, I and everyone else would *willingly* agree to be
> compelled to cooperate. Collectivist anarchism might allow for such
> cooperation while free market anarchism would not. If the advanced
> aliens are all libertarians this may explain the Fermi Paradox.

Interestingly, the major commercial players in markets sometimes
behave in the "superrational" manner, working towards and welcome
regulation - ie: externally imposed restrictions. The great example of
this must be supporting the state's monopoly on force.

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Emlyn

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