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>Any good engineer knows that it is far easier to work with the forces
>involved rather than try to combat them. Opposing natural forces is a
>stressful, unstable, temporary thing. This is why free market capitalism
>works best, it doesn't try to fight human nature, but it tries to take
>advantage of it to fullfill all needs (including altruistic ones).
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>We are learning with computing that evolved systems are capable of
>becoming the most powerful systems ever, far beyond the capabilities of
>targeted purposeful design.
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>Extropy is not anti-evolution, but for enhanced evolution.
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>Mike Lorrey
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I would make the statement that the forms of capitalism currently practised in the world are not perfect. I hope others would agree. That is not to say that they are necessarily fataly flawed. Just imperfect.
>From the viewpoint of a long (infinitely long?) lived individual, there
is a big flaw in the idea of a competitive system. The flaw is that we
are all doomed to failure. If the probability of failure for us is
greater than zero in an evolutionary "trial", then it must approach 1
over time, as the number of trials increases. And the probability of
failure in a trial must be greater than zero, if just to account for
forces out of individual control.
In my own individual, greedy, selfish way I think that this individual, greedy, selfish economic system is a bum-deal, because it dooms me to eventual (multiple) failure. If that failure can be fatal (and it can), then I'm really worried.
Hey, maybe we could cooperate. Oops, I've been watching too much Sesame Street.
Emlyn