“To make your job easy, let me translate Curt’s model for the folk below +3 sigm

—“To make your job easy, let me translate Curt’s model for the folk below +3 sigma: conflict resolution and cooperation among sovereign peers is a different GAME than organization of non-sovereigns by a central sovereign. This cybernetic differential produces different optimizations, which we call civilizational strategies. If you can cut the lifeblood of other agents on a whim (centrally organized irrigation), then you can rule by fiat. If you can’t overwhelm, force other agents cheaply into submission, then you’ll have to discover a method of adjudication in conflicts such that you get stable cooperation instead of retaliation and defect/defect equilibrium. In other words, you’ll discover natural law, and you’ll incrementally get better at truth telling to make it work.”— Propertarian Frank