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Nov 22, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
@prathyvsh I've seen this before and it was a pretty disappointing take, to be honest, especially due to its unnecessarily anti-anarchist intrusions.

But there's an immensely important formal counterargument to heterarchies provided by Stepehen Omohundro here:

selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/nature… @prathyvsh The bottom line is this: if any abstract organization structure of any sort is heterarchical, then it can be driven to cycles where losses can accumulate arbitrarily for everyone, and it's also seen as "logical" for the agents to participate in that cycle of losses.