- To effect political change you must obtain power because only those who control institutions and resources can allocate funds, change rules, and enforce decisions, so intentions without power remain ineffective.
To effect political change you must obtain power because only those who control institutions and resources can allocate funds, change rules, and enforce decisions, so intentions without power remain ineffective.
- A democracy becomes vulnerable to seizure when it grows very poor or a huge resource is discovered because the expected rewards from controlling the state spike, changing backers' calculations and making a small organized group's gamble more attractive.
A democracy becomes vulnerable to seizure when it grows very poor or a huge resource is discovered because the expected rewards from controlling the state spike, changing backers' calculations and making a small organized group's gamble more attractive.
- Ideas that have passed through many minds are often optimized for spread rather than truth because repeated transmission selects for versions that exploit emotional triggers and sharing incentives.
Ideas that have passed through many minds are often optimized for spread rather than truth because repeated transmission selects for versions that exploit emotional triggers and sharing incentives.
- Popular memes can burn out quickly once they saturate a population because when most people have seen or agreed with an idea, discussion and transmission stop, ending the replication chain.
Popular memes can burn out quickly once they saturate a population because when most people have seen or agreed with an idea, discussion and transmission stop, ending the replication chain.
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