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.

Instead, any realistic new community is going to have a complicated jumble of various legible and illegible values (and "vibes") that appeals to a particular group of people. And this is the *only* realistic way to define a new (or existing) community.

To take one example, let's briefly pick on the new city project Praxis. Praxis defines its primary virtue as "vitality". On its home page it says:

"EXCEPTIONAL MEN AND WOMEN SEEKING MORE VITAL LIVES"