• #push [[meditations on moloch]]
  • [[moloch]] of the thousand terrible faces of humanity
    • [[moloch]] who hides cowardly the [[suffering of others]]
    • [[moloch]] of uncontrolled, hypocritical, lazy [[capitalism]] and the adoration of fixed [[hierarchies]]
    • [[moloch]] who we may [[slay]], we may [[save]], we may [[subdue]]
    • #pull [[engels]] [[marx]] [[ginsberg]] [[alexander]]

Moloch

• a [[being]].
  • [[juntos venceremos a moloch]]
  • an [[egregore]].
    • Apologies for calling it a [[thing]] at some point.
    • Called by some [[the machine]].
    • Lives in [[Antiflancia]].
  • [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch pull
    • [[go]] [[wp]]
  • [[pull]] [[meditations on moloch]]
  • A maximizer of [[cacotopoi]].
    • A vector against interesting gradients in [[protopoi]], often taking the form of [[violence]] and unsolved [[coordination problems]].
      • Sometimes solved through history after giving new tools to more people.
      • Currently includes social evils due to missed opportunities and the tendency of self-sustaining systems to stay put in idiosyncratic equilibriums, local optima.
      • Better optima become available with improvements in availability of resources, and improvements for communication and collaboration.
  • The Agora is my proposal for a tool for [[chasing moloch]].
    • [[flancian]] https://flancia.org/t/moloch pull
    • If we ever catch up to them, we'll ask them plenty of questions.
    • I think it is armed with a [[commons]] we'll [[slay moloch]] if we have to.
      • [[pull]] [[slaying moloch]]