Figure 1 A mess of links about the state and its capacity to do things, incorporating institutions, social licence and the like. Participatory budgeting, participatory resource management, lack thereof. Practically speaking, it seems that most citizens would kinda like the state to invest in maintaining a society that was not a crumbling pit of poverty awash in disease and toxic waste and ruled over by robber barons. However, given that they don’t trust the state to get anything right, the...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Figure 1 On whether we make things, or allow them to evolve. I thought I first read about this in a passage from Hayek, but I can no longer find it. The idea was that we model ourselves as having more agency than we do. So, imagine the most fundamental unit of human scientific endeavour, the laboratory experiment: Say a scientist wishes to measure the boiling point of water. They might describe the steps in the experiment: pouring water into a test tube, heating it with a bunsen burner, watc...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises