garden/moloch.md

Moloch

• a being.
  • juntos venceremos a moloch
  • an egregore.
    • Apologies for calling it a thing at some point.
    • Called by some the machine.
    • Lives in Antiflancia, maybe.
  • wp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
  • I believe humanity is entangled with Moloch.
    • A manifestation of ignorance, greed and lack of coordination which keeps us in a suboptimal space.
    • #pull meditations on moloch
    • Moloch is a high dimensional vector against interesting gradients in protopoi, often taking the form of violence (the dark side of kings, states) and unsolved coordination problems.
      • Sometimes weakened through history after people unlocked new tools for cooperation.
      • Currently includes social evils due to missed opportunities and the tendency of self-sustaining systems to stay put in idiosyncratic equilibriums, local optima.
      • Better optima become available with improvements in availability of resources, and improvements for communication and collaboration.
  • The Agora is my proposal for a tool for giving chase, and maybe out-competing, Moloch.
    • If we ever find or catch up to them, we'll ask them plenty of questions and offer to disentangle from them peacefully first.
    • But I think it is with the Commons in our inventory as a tool we'll slay Moloch if we have to.
      • #pull slaying moloch
    • twitter https://flancia.org/t/moloch