12-1a2c Digital network can solve the problem of network defects (both as a failure and a political defection) because not constrained by the arbitrary state and its physical borders means it doesn't get too big or too complex

“I’m a libertarian at the national level, a Republican at the state level, a Democrat at the municipal level, and a communist at the family level.” – Nassim Taleb

“Historically, successful models like Venice, Dubai, or Singapore were small city-states. Scale enables effective governance, but as the U.S. economy grows in size and complexity, governance becomes harder. We need even more localism than we had 50 or 100 years ago, but our systems haven’t adapted to this reality.” – Nassim Taleb (20250923)

Fragmentation ≠ Localization (and I think we need the latter)develop

Related:

• 9-2a0 The Identity Stack - To build something great means becoming someone’s top primary identifier

  • 2-1a0c1g No lock-in = 去る者は追わない・追えない
    • 7-1a2a3 Win at the corner then come back (傾く・バロック)
      • 7-1a2a You will be solving universal problems by attending to local-parochial problems first

• 6-3b2 In corporate networks you can only quit

• 8-2b Crypto will disrupt everything because it can change how organizations are formed, monetized, and exited. It could take decades to play out.

• 5-1b1b1a3 Network effects (digital) ＞ Supply and demand (physical)develop

  • 3-1c2e4.2 ‘Supply and demand’ - Physical is getting expensive partly because 5-2a3 People fight over tangibles

Next:

• 12-1a2d Abstractions such as ‘the economy’ and ‘the supply chain’ can be realized arbitrarily well (never exhaustively)

  • Remember how “six degrees of separation” and “written history” became real with social networks
    • 10-2g2e2 Abstractions are real, and created the same way as with any other knowledge
  • Maybe such a system can solve Hayekian calculation problem
    • 7-1b4b You can let the tech decide what are the problems to be solved. Otherwise, it will decide by itself. It’s about possibility and not about should.
      • Remember Uber beat Sidecar because the former had a global view of supply & demand better and riders wanted speed not price shoppingdevelop
        • Not every top-downs are inherently evildevelop
  • 大東亜共栄圏 2.0 (this time excluding every element that suggests imperialism) will be digital?

• Digital world is still constrained by the laws of physics, but is primarily run by human-written code

  • Algorithms and databases >>> Physics and biology
    • 8-1c2a What matters is the creativity per se, because non-creative parts will be made easier
      • 4-1a4b3d The ‘ledger of record’ shifts the focus to adjacent layers
    • Counter-argument: 2-1b2b0b Do not underestimate the essential—don’t risk what you have and need, to get what you don’t need & 8-1b3 The software can control the hardware

• Not every digital network can solve the problem of network defects

  • 6-3b3f Blockchain network ＞ Protocol network ＞ Corporate network