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19 May, 14 tweets, 6 min read
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Key Insights: Henry: We need to be critical of other people in the public sphere, but we need to be critical in an extraordinarily humble way—to recognize that we, all of us, are incredibly biased as individuals. We see the moats in our brothers'... 1/
... eyes very well. We do not see the beams and our own. We have a duty to others to try to help them to remove the beams in a polite, quiet, sometimes insistent way... think very carefully about the ways in which we can genuinely be constructive in criticism...

Brad: We... 2/ Image
...are in huge trouble: organizing our 7.8 billion person anthology intelligence to actually get done what we need to get done in the next century appears beyond our capabilities. It may be time to go back to the trees, or even to devolve completely and let some other more... 3/ Image
...mature species more capable of collective action and organization come up—the raccoons, or something. Nobody has a gospel. So the next move has to be, somehow. with the head...

Noah: Perhaps this is just the optimism of relative youth but I think that we're going to...
... break out of our local maximum and find a better way. If you were in the 1930s, and you looked at the state of both America and the world, you would see even more cause for despair. Yet we got our way out of that without having to leave the planet to the raccoons... 5/
... I think we will this time as well. The key insight is that we are still in the process of learning about what democracy means and about how, you know, humans can participate in their own government without turning it into an unwieldy shout fest.

All: Hexapodia!... 6/
...P.S.: Marko Kloos's Paladium Wars <amazon.com/The-Palladium-…> series is excellent. 7/END
Plus: Henry Farrell objects to my Xena Warrior Princess pronunciation of Mytilene... braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexa…
References: Jason Brennan: Against Democracy <google.com/books/edition/…>

Bryan Caplan: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies <google.com/books/edition/…>

Henry Farrell: In Praise of Negativity <crookedtimber.org/2020/07/24/in-…>... 1/
Henry Farrell, Hugo Mercier, & Melissa Schwartzberg: No-Bullshit Democracy <>

Alexander Hamilton: Federalist 9 <avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/f…>

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, & Cass Sunstein: Noise <google.com/books/edition/…>... 2/
...Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber: The Enigma of Reason <google.com/books/edition/…>

Michael Neblo, Kevin Esterling, & David Lazar: Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy <amazon.com/Politics-Peopl…>... 3/
...Josiah Ober: Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens <google.com/books/edition/…>

Melissa Schwartzberg: Epistemic Democracy and Its Challenges <doi.org/10.1146/annure…>... 4/
...Ilya Somin: Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter <google.com/books/edition/…>

Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein: Nudges: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness <google.com/books/edition/…> 5/END
& while we did talk briefly about @ebruenig , we did not claim that she rides a beast with seven heads that the Bruenigs keep in their apartment and feed the meat upon which Caesar fed... Image

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