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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Protocols as engineered arguments ==> protocols as rules of engagement (and disengagement) “Good, clean fight”
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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This is not the same thing as a “fair fight” You’re solving for continuing the game, not for winning it, and that sometimes looks like solving for “fair” outcomes or “fair opportunities” but that’s just coincidence/correlation. For eg. Factory farming of is a set of protocols for raising and slaughtering animals, but it is entirely asymmetric and unfair, even though it is kinda sustainable as an infinite game. And it won’t be fair or symmetric no matter how humane you make the industry’s practices. One species systematically eating another is never going to fit any notion of fairness. But it can still be a protocolized activity; an engineered argument where the interests of the meat species are at least represented in the rules of engagement.
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