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Fun Exercise
Fun creative exercise: Describe an x-based theory of y.
For instance, describe a play-based theory of language.
Theory: Language is the inevitable outcome of optimizing play for safety.
Language allows us to play in our minds, rather than in the real world. This minimizes the risk to our person, external and internal.
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Deficiency of Utility
Crackpot theory hour:
Deep connection between neoliberalism, market fundamentalism, efficiency above all else, and utilitarianism.
Each is deeply hierarchical in nature.
All hierarchical philosophies are ultimately inflexible and unresponsive in the face of contradictions. They reject dialectic and open-mindedness. This fundamental characteristic of inflexibility undergirds all ideology. In this way, dialectical anarchism can be considered not ideological.
Ironically, efficiency-minded purely consequentialist thought processes tend to miss their own goals because they lack an explicit ontology of damping and exploration, two somewhat opposite techniques that have been shown to be necessary for the most information-efficient machine optimization processes (machine learning) known to date.