- 23 Jun 2014 01:14
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A society without toil. A society of robotic property.
I identify two main concerns; physical security and resource security. Support for a certain level of deregulation weighs the fears of bad outcomes against the benefits, and the two main categories of bad outcomes are that people will slaughter each other without central authority, and that people won't be able to have the resources they need to survive.
Physical security:
-If A: armor technology progresses to a higher level than ballistic technology's ability to penetrate armor, and B: human beings adopt transhumanism en masse and are therefore able to compose their bodies out of such technology, then we can C: get closer on an asymptote to anarchy. If propellants reach a ceiling and armor reaches a ceiling whereby propellants don't provide the power density necessary to defeat armor (likely relying on advanced bulk nanoproperties), and we are in a transhuman paradigm with a low cost of upgrade, then the potential population philosophically amenable to anarchy will increase because it will include people who worry about gun control who now have less to worry about. If propellants win the race, then support will decrease however.
-If people become more peaceful, whether through cultural change or some sort of eugenic change, such as designer babies/passive positive eugenics, then support for anarchy is also likely to increase, as it is less dangerous, and the benefits versus authoritarianism become worth the risk for more people.
-Healthcare becoming less costly.
-The human body becoming easier to fix/more modifiable.
Resource security:
-If all people can easily find food and water, and possess shelter, then support is also likely to increase. If the paradigm of the automation of labor ends with free availability and replicability of that labor, then anarchy's support base grows, due to the ending of human toil by this mechanism also ending stratified survival based capitalist relations, and governmental taxation to fund the state labor force, among other elements of high statism.
-If the raw materials which go into making most of the things we need become more common - as we find replacements for rare earths and other important components for modern electronics - then this is promising for a subsidiarity based route to liberty. Carbon, with its allotropes like graphene and nanotubes, is seeming to be the material of one thousand and one uses, so developments may be headed in that direction, tentatively. Properly fulfilled, this paradigm would allow very local sourcing of necessary materials, and end gigantic supply chains involving a myriad of absentee relations. In this way, the necessary authority of society can become more "municipal", and we can advance closer to the infinity line of anarchy.
Physical security:
-If A: armor technology progresses to a higher level than ballistic technology's ability to penetrate armor, and B: human beings adopt transhumanism en masse and are therefore able to compose their bodies out of such technology, then we can C: get closer on an asymptote to anarchy. If propellants reach a ceiling and armor reaches a ceiling whereby propellants don't provide the power density necessary to defeat armor (likely relying on advanced bulk nanoproperties), and we are in a transhuman paradigm with a low cost of upgrade, then the potential population philosophically amenable to anarchy will increase because it will include people who worry about gun control who now have less to worry about. If propellants win the race, then support will decrease however.
-If people become more peaceful, whether through cultural change or some sort of eugenic change, such as designer babies/passive positive eugenics, then support for anarchy is also likely to increase, as it is less dangerous, and the benefits versus authoritarianism become worth the risk for more people.
-Healthcare becoming less costly.
-The human body becoming easier to fix/more modifiable.
Resource security:
-If all people can easily find food and water, and possess shelter, then support is also likely to increase. If the paradigm of the automation of labor ends with free availability and replicability of that labor, then anarchy's support base grows, due to the ending of human toil by this mechanism also ending stratified survival based capitalist relations, and governmental taxation to fund the state labor force, among other elements of high statism.
-If the raw materials which go into making most of the things we need become more common - as we find replacements for rare earths and other important components for modern electronics - then this is promising for a subsidiarity based route to liberty. Carbon, with its allotropes like graphene and nanotubes, is seeming to be the material of one thousand and one uses, so developments may be headed in that direction, tentatively. Properly fulfilled, this paradigm would allow very local sourcing of necessary materials, and end gigantic supply chains involving a myriad of absentee relations. In this way, the necessary authority of society can become more "municipal", and we can advance closer to the infinity line of anarchy.
A society without toil. A society of robotic property.