[ExI] Self-driving tiny homes

efc at disroot.org efc at disroot.org
Fri Nov 29 11:58:40 UTC 2024



On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 4:41 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>       On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
>       > Nonetheless, these situations come up a lot.  Government, law, et al as they currently exist (in most countries,
>       anyway) provides
>       > solutions when this does.  This is among the reasons why this form of governance has won out in practice over the
>       libertarian ideal. 
>
>       Crappy solutions, that hardly work for the common man.
> 
> 
> Crappy compared to the ideal, but the others are even worse.

Have you tried all the others? There's plenty of betamax stories around 
I'm sure.
   
>       The libertarian
>       ideal has never been tried
> 
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
> 
> Any example I bring up, you'd redefine "the libertarian ideal" to say it was somehow not that.  For example:
> * Grafton, New Jersey.
> * Crystal, Minnesota.
> * Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2010-2015.
> * Prospera, Honduras.
> 
> I'm excluding the ones that never came to full power, such as the Free State Project and the Libertarian Party, since I think we can
> agree that if they weren't in power, they couldn't implement their ideals.  But they were in power in each of the above examples.

So? This is not an apples to apples comparison, and an example of moving 
the goalposts.


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