Dwarkesh Patel
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 5d ago
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I think this is getting to one pretty practical solution.
It's interesting that a problem like this that is so concise to describe can have so many different plausible solutions.
Yeah, but what is the solution?
For the viewers, you can leave your solutions in the comments.
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Okay, so to tie a couple of threads we're talking about together, the prince is painting a picture of...
just regime is incredibly unstable.
You had to worry about foreign powers.
You had to worry about rival factions in your own country.
You had to worry about mercenaries.
You had to worry about lots of different things.
And so any given regime is very unstable.
And so what had to happen for...
Things to get more stable, basically.
And we're talking about a couple of the ways in which people owed their loyalties not to the regime, but to others within the regime, which created instability.
So in Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli talks about the Roman Empire.
One of the reasons that its fall was instigated is that these generals who were months away in the frontier fighting these wars because the empire was so big...
had to amass for the periods of years, or in some cases for Caesar, of course, decades, the command of so many men who have for decades just basically been listening to this guy tell them what to do, who to fight next.
This is the person who they're loyal to.
As opposed to, say, if the consuls could be giving dictates every single day, then the loyalty could be to the regime in Rome.
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