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1. Bartosz Milewski (bartoszmilewski@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 11:02:31 JST Bartosz Milewski

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   Human societies are orders of magnitude more complex than even the most complex engineering endeavors. There is no easy fix. The solutions we have at our disposal are badly flawed, but we can't just throw them away and hope for a miracle.

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   • Bartosz Milewski (bartoszmilewski@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 11:02:33 JST Bartosz Milewski

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     It's true that too much government, too much regulation, too much taxation is bad. This doesn't mean that minimizing these things will solve all the problems--quite the opposite. Libertarians endulge in magical thinking...

   • Bartosz Milewski (bartoszmilewski@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 14-May-2022 11:02:34 JST Bartosz Milewski

     I'm lucky to have so many smart people following me here. But being smart doesn't make you immune to fallacies. A lot of software engineers I know fell for the libertarian fallacy...