it isn't enough. out of the nearest 100 a warlord always emerges due to the instinct to seek protection.
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The right incentives will turn the mugger into the miner. Otherwise, that radically local consensus will serve as a settlement layer for private property disputes.
not if the bugger is a sociopath.
It’s exactly the outliers that consensus checks, whether with violence or math.
what happens when sociopathy isn't an outlier.
Interesting: the most vulnerable minority is always the individual. On the one hand.
On the other hand: If the incentives are right (objective ledger of history, for instance), consensus will prune for justice. It won’t matter how many evil bastards opine, the code will not budge and the proof of work will out over low time preference deception.