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While I don't share Erik's world view, I do enjoy his takes and how hard he tries at being internally consistent. Some fun discussion under this one:

While I don't share Erik's world view, I do enjoy his takes and how hard he tries at being internally consistent. Some fun discussion under this one: https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1835019215381627309

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

Currently: WhatsABI

I didn't read the whole tweet but I think you can further decompose the 2d graph into a 4d hyper volume. The left right axis seems like it's actually two separate axes for social and economic policy compressed into one. While the authoritarian - libertarian axis could be unravelled into a structure - unstructured axis and a hierarchal - anarchic axis

Interested in ZK, FHE, PUFs, hardware, system design, ai safety, and smart contact security.

Totally agreed that the axis is way too low-dimension to reflect meaningfully. At minimum, optimizing for collectivist vs individualist outcomes is an important yet fairly orthogonal metric. Not to mention that people vary their positions depending on issue.

I'm actually not convinced that economic coercion is substantially different than social coercion, especially in a post-crypto world (where we have fairly definitively proven that we can socially construct economic mechanisms trivially).