cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4249593

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis called the Gadsden flag ‘a proud symbol of the American revolution’ after a a Colorado student was told to remove a patch of the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag from his backpack.

  • Kalcifer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Being individually free does not necessitate an oppressive structure within the collective – if all individuals are free, then the collective must also be free.

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      1 year ago

      This seems like it should be true, but unfortunately game theory shows that it is not, due to coordination problems. It’s possible for everyone to have individual free choice in their actions, and yet the collective to be incapable of making the choice that everyone would individually prefer it to make. The elementary example of this is the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

      Interestingly, real humans turn out to be better at resolving coordination problems than a purely selfish algorithm is.