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Root repository for ⿻數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and the Plurality Community
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potentially referencing Weirdest People in the World, Assemblage Theory? #254

Closed Identitywoman closed 8 months ago

Identitywoman commented 10 months ago

https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality/blob/493c1aae9183eb51fa9840b43502b35d52211dc2/contents/english/04-04-property-and-contract.md?plain=1#L78

This could be a good paragraph to talk about key aspects of the third section, "New Institutions, New Psychologies" of Joseph Henrich's book the Weirdest People in the World where the contemporary forms of organization that dominate now were experimentally innovated into being. This also aligns with Assemblage Theory as a frame - there were many different people were coming together in new context - charter cities and meeting with strangers (non-kin) to shape and form new institutions - these experiments lead to the forms that were most useful/successful spreading (this is a population slection pressure).

GlenWeyl commented 10 months ago

I agree with the former comment as I see how it could be done briefly and support your making a PR on this...though I might put it all the way back on 04-00 or even 03-02 when we talk about the more general problems with the modern Weberian state as I think Henrich's points apply across these domains. On Assemblage theory, as we corresponded about, I remain somewhat skeptic this can be done in a concise way that doesn't confuse the reader or add unnecessary and not very useful conceptual work, but I am open to looking at a PR.

Identitywoman commented 8 months ago

Created pull request - https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality/pull/356 if the grammar is not perfect - sorry. hopefully grammar elves can address any fixes that are needed.