Moloch is a high dimensional vector against interesting gradients in [[protopoi]], often taking the form of [[violence]] (the dark side of kings, states) and unsolved [[coordination problems]].
Sometimes weakened through history after people unlocked new tools for cooperation.
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 giving chase, and maybe out-competing, [[Moloch]].
If we ever find or catch up to them, we’ll ask them plenty of questions and offer to disentangle from them peacefully first.
But I think it is with the [[Commons]] in our inventory as a tool we’ll [[slay Moloch]] if we have to.