Agora
  • Agora ethos
    • Agoran institutions
    • Ethos
    • Passing on the Ethos
    • Deme ethos
    • FIX LATER Agora: Contrast to modern Western civilization
    • STUB: Continuing Western civilization
    • Destroying institutions
  • Cyber Sovereignty
    • Overview
    • Charter
    • Legal Mechanisms
    • Articles
    • Experimental
  • Synapse
    • Wallpaper signaling
    • Beacons and maps
    • AI intelligence & networking
    • Authentication
    • Hoverboards and home
    • Ideas inspired by Synapse: Trust and signals
    • Commercial signaling WIP
    • Legal contracts built in AI (WIP)
    • Design principles & privacy safeguards
    • Opening non-native apps in Synapse
    • Transaction screen
    • Command-based operating system
    • Profiles in Synapse
  • Community
    • Agora specifically
    • Community management
    • Manifesto for digital societies
    • Overcoming the pitfalls of online community
    • Why digital societies fail
    • Reality distortion field
    • Wars of identity & ostracization
    • Agora as the keystone of digital civilization ⭕
    • The failure of the metaverse
    • Intentionality in community design
    • Listening to others as key to community
    • Democracy in a digital society
    • Digital societies & mob dynamics
  • Economics
    • Why wealth is a divisive community foundation
    • Crypto vs Synapse
    • Currencies in virtual worlds
    • The societal benefit principle
    • The economic collapse of a digital society
    • The problem of money printing
    • The gold-silver concept of digital money
    • Synapse reputation system
    • The distribution of Digital Gold
    • Digital vaults
    • Synapse and economic coordination technology
    • Digital Gold as a third jurisdiction - Link
  • Statecraft
    • Rebuilding institutions
    • Systems
    • Psychology
    • Why civilizations fail (WIP)
    • How civilizations empower criminals over time
  • Future proposition
    • Digital Legal Rights Framework
    • Digital Polity Legal Framework
    • Creating social apps: Update needed
    • The notorious toxicity of small group power dynamics and how World Lab strives to avoid them
    • Keeping a community together via currency
    • Reputation-based gold storage
    • Rights and duties of citizenship
    • A third option
    • How Cyber Society, Local Community and National Government mix
    • Open source government powered by Synapse
    • Key talking points
    • The rights of digital society owners
    • Challenging or problematic scenarios
    • Potential citizenship tests
  • Participating in Agora
    • Content guidelines
    • Agora submission requirements
    • Agora's selection process in detail
    • Becoming an Agoran citizen
  • Volunteer only
    • How to do an interview
  • Library
    • The ambient os vision
    • The injustice of the modern justice system
    • AI ideas on Synapse
  • Prerequisites
    • Eustress vs distress
  • Deprecated articles
    • Participating in Agora: Update needed
    • Creating social games: Update needed
    • Creating apps
    • Incubating Synapse community applications
    • Laws of precedence
    • Cyber Sovereignty & innovation in organization
    • The right to statistics.
    • Evolution of digital societies & required rulesets
    • All old article leftovers, to do list, left
    • Cyber Sovereignty
    • Behind the Manifesto OLD
    • How digital societies take precedence
    • Criminal vs. civil law
    • A list of potential issues.
    • Digital Collectivism
    • Other potential weaknesses.
  • Meta
    • How to write better
  • Agoran Accord
    • Preventing over-regulation while protecting rights
  1. Overview
  2. Statecraft
  3. Psychology

Psychology

  • How perverse incentives, rather than evil deeds, corrupt society

    People often think that society crumbles under the weight of evil conspirators. And although they do exist, the real rot that destroys a society is not deliberate evil, but a system which rewards it. When a society provides people perverse incentives, peo ...

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