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"But just because a good machine is governable doesn’t mean humans must necessarily govern it. That might not even be possible. So to embrace a machinic aspect to society is to also embrace that the societal machines we inhabit might be self-governing. We already do in fact embrace such mechanistic self-governing — what is “rule of law” and constitutional order after all, but engineered self-governance? Inserting AI or blockchains into the logic doesn’t really change that much."

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"But just because a good machine is governable doesn’t mean humans must necessarily govern it. That might not even be possible. So to embrace a machinic aspect to society is to also embrace that the societal machines we inhabit might be self-governing. We already do in fact embrace such mechanistic self-governing — what is “rule of law” and constitutional order after all, but engineered self-governance? Inserting AI or blockchains into the logic doesn’t really change that much."

study @vgr 

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/between-mandala-and-machine