Mini-thread: against the "One Commandment"

Balaji's The Network State (see my review https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/07/13/networkstates.html ) has a concept called "the one commandment": a new startup society should have one key moral value that differs from the outside world. I argue that this is wrong.

Good thread. TLDR: one commandment is an oversimplification, but a useful oversimplification.

One way to think about it: when you pitch your community to a new recruit, how do you describe it?

Culdesac: car-free
Kift: van life
Praxis: vitalist

Note what this is *not*. It's not an economic pitch. It's a values pitch.

France: egalite, fraternite et liberte

US: freedum!