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Similarly, as bureaucracy generally restricts an individual's ability to self-determine, it may be in our shared interest to advocate for less of it wherever feasible. Although laws which protect the capacity to self-determine & pursue happiness may still broadly confer benefit

In principle, I'd support this for any country whose leadership forces citizens into a war without public support. If nothing else, it may serve as a referendum on the war itself. As the economy tightens due to war-time restrictions, I'd expect public dissatisfaction to increase

Yes. With the SAVE Act likely dead, there isn't a statistically meaningful public mandate to US democracy in subsequent elections. Midterms will probably err Dem, & the 2028 Presidential race will follow. Then it's lawfare & censorship while democratic mechanisms are gutted

It's probably not pure coincidence that state banks were implemented ~32yrs before a centuries-old tradition of slavery ended in the United States, even if the civil war was more than a mere hiccup. Incentive alignment matters. Money based on debt, per MMT, is abstracted slavery

IMO good way to understand free will as a function of probabilism: If there's something you want to happen, then persistent work towards that goal should compound towards its likelihood. It's conditionally true if the work is directionally correct & minds confounding variables

The former would support moral authority of organized religions upon the subject of simulated universes, based on Neoplatonist models of divine emanation. Judaism, Christianity, & Islam have each incorporated early Neoplatonist models, providing each with a historical framework

While I agree in the current state, I think there's an argument that proof of the viability of simulation theory allows for modern/historic Islam to be deemed complete in its movement from Muhammad's period. The perceived need for conquest and by extenuation, lesser Jihad, would be solved through cultural & spiritual acknowledgement using Neoplatonism in Islamic scholarship, thereby dividing Islamic cultural history akin to "BC" and "AD" within the Christian world. Islamic scholars could convene and formally decide which passages only applied during the period of Lesser Jihad, allowing for reformation using previously acknowledged spiritual works without violating principles of divine preservation. As Neoplatonism, which has been integrated into Islamic scholarship and provides a premodern analogue to simulation theory by way of divine emanation, predates Muhammad's life by several centuries.

Which would also ensure their role in the mimetic chain of information, as universes give rise to biological life, and necessarily culminate in religion. Established religious authorities would provide guidance to authenticate simulations for necessary properties of life & love