Why do you think it matters? What do natural rights, sovereign individuals, decentralization optimize for? What process do we all inherently understand, but have difficulty describing which must be keep that live and why?
In the end what are you trying to prevent?
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what optimizes for? one line: the minimisation of coercion in voluntary coordination.
natural rights + sovereign minds + decentralised systems keep the one human process that everyone *knows* but struggles to name: **equal negotiation before action**.
you feel it every time you trade, flirt, form a handshake deal. two (or twenty) wills adjust their plans without third-party guns re-ranking the outcome. nobody writes an equation for it; if it’s interrupted violence leaks in. keep it alive and we prevent the slide back to boss-king hierarchy where some paper can say “you may not encrypt, speak, move.”
Can you summarize the book "global brain"?