Ah, but if there's more than one group of them, they *do* care about decentralization. We only need to avoid the Leviathan

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They care about it in the sense that it scares them and they'll do anything to stop it

If that's the kind of caring you want, I don't care for you

Unless you're talking about coordinated groups pretending to be independent, they need decentralization to compete with one another. If you think they're actually all appendages of the same group, then this is the Leviathan we need to worry about

You're not making sense

Leviathan is a word from fiction

The world is an omnicide cult trying to wipe out the last few survivalists standing up for survival

Decentralization could help the survivalists so the omnicide cult don't like it

There aren't many survivalists, I'm the only one smart enough and with enough time to be doing much on nostr so far

A (proper noun) Leviathan is an iron fist that creates the peace of an empire through fear. Essentially, a Death Star. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)

The Bible is fiction used by the omnicide cult to prop itself up

I really recommend using real words, misusing words on purpose is one of the main reasons people's brains are so broken

The Leviathan is a well known book on the philosophy of social contracts. But, point taken: I'll look for more universal terms

Claude:

Hobbes' "Leviathan" presents the thesis that human beings must surrender their natural freedoms to an absolute sovereign power in order to escape the "state of nature" - a condition of perpetual war, fear, and chaos.

In this state of nature, Hobbes famously describes human life as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." He argues that humans are naturally self-interested and competitive, leading to constant conflict when left ungoverned.

The central argument is that individuals should enter into a "social contract," transferring their rights to a powerful sovereign (the Leviathan) who maintains peace and order through the monopoly of force. This sovereign power is necessary because without it, society would collapse into anarchy and violence.

Hobbes justifies this seemingly harsh position by claiming that even an authoritarian government is preferable to the chaos of the state of nature. The sovereign's absolute authority is legitimized by the consent of the governed, who voluntarily surrender certain freedoms for the security and stability that only a powerful central authority can provide.

I suspect your "omnicide cult" IS the Leviathan, but I'd have to do some research to know whether they really are the same

Sounds sensible now that I got the explanation πŸ€™

Thank you for the summary

We will probably need a powerful central authority to kill all the omnicidal denialists that outnumber survivalists

But we also seem to need decentralized communication infrastructure to keep natural selection going so we can evolve into a good species instead of getting locked into selective breeding and atrophying while we're still shitty to begin with

Ah, sorry -

The link broke and sent me to what you see in this screenshot, which matched what I thought I knew

But now that I look at the link again I see how it broke and I see where you were trying to link me πŸ€™

We've got sea serpents, Death Stars and medieval English dictators. I'm not quite sure what any of them represent, but if we need to attack at dawn then count me in.

Pretty sure you're a stormtrooper in this scenario

Alright then I'll take the Death Star. You can do the serpent.

The Death Star IS the serpent πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Oh, the parentheses probably broke the link. πŸ€” I think that's client-side, but I could have better URL encoded it

Probably nothing you could do, nostr πŸ…±οΈroke

I should have noticed to begin with before giving a rude reply

No worries. Better to be emotional than ambivalent

Thank you so much, I needed to hear that

Nostr has a Death Star?