Table of Contents

Dedication	7

Acknowledgments	9

Chapter 0 Introduction	1

Chapter 1 Preface	5

Part 1 What keeps us from getting along?	9

Chapter 2 Jailbreaking the Prisoner's Dilemma	11

The Prisoner’s Dilemma	12

From MADness to Cooperation	21

From War to Evolutionary Biology	23

When Competition Beats Cooperation	26

We’re All Prisoners of Reality	29

War	29

Pretend wars and real wars	32

Capitalism	34

Commercial competition: Value proposition	34

Commercial competition: Advertising	35

Environmental pollution	37

Political gridlock	37

Racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination	38

The High Rate of Recidivism in Perpetrators of the Prisoners’ Dilemma	39

Recap	41

Chapter 3 Learn About The Ultimatum Game -- Or Else	43

Trickle down theories	46

Chapter 4 Survival of the Most Cooperative	51

Cancer	53

Scarcity vs. Abundance	54

A Scarcity of Forward Thinking; An Abundance of Possibility	60

Recap	62

Part 2 Does human nature allow us to get along?	65

Chapter 5 Is it even possible to get along?	67

Goal stacks	68

What if the goal stacks don’t match?	70

If your goal stacks differ, trade	73

Once our goal stacks align, we can collaborate on solutions	74

Reaching agreement by taming complexity	75

Chapter 6 Interpersonal Relations	77

Abundance to the rescue, sort of	82

Keeping up with the post-scarcity Joneses?	84

Conclusion	86

Recap	87

Chapter 7 Genderism	89

Chapter 8 Can at Least Some of Us Get Along?	95

Consensus process	96

Lack of consensus on consensus	101

Consensus in Intentional Communities	103

Cooperative Enterprise	105

Chapter 9 Sometimes, irrationality doesn't make sense	109

Chapter 10 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation	117

Competition and extrinsic motivation	119

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation and the Prisoner's Dilemma	121

You can win fabulous prizes!	123

The bankruptcy of incentive	125

Livin’ the Life of Riley?	126

Part 3 Can we get along economically?	129

Chapter 11 The World's Best Business Model	131

Chapter 12 The Productivity of Dead People	137

Inequality and Incentive	139

The Fundamental Theorem of Capitalism	139

We’re all heirs to the fortune of Technology	141

Your check’s in the mail	142

Can money buy happiness?	145

Poverty is too expensive	145

Chapter 13 Slapped by the Invisible Hand	147

The Myths of Capitalism	147

Chapter 14 Can Capitalism Be Saved?	163

Capitalism’s Life Expectancy	163

Tweaks to Capitalism	164

Big Changes	166

Communism	167

Plutocracy	168

The jagged spiral of progress	169

Chapter 15 Makerism	171

The technology of Makerism	172

What things need to be made by the microfactories?	172

The economics of Makerism	173

What are the motivations for transition from Capitalism to Makerism?	174

Meet the Makers	176

What does Makerism solve?	177

Status of advanced printers	179

Market Forecast	180

What problems remain post-scarcity?	180

Civilization	181

Chapter 16 Software Makerism	185

The key to programming is language	186

Hackathons and the Maker movement	189

Chapter 17 Artificial Intelligence: Not the son of Frankenstein	193

Chapter 18 A Day in the Post-Scarcity Life	199

Part 4 Can government help us get along?	213

Chapter 19 The Beginning of History	215

Chapter 20 Toward Low-Power Government	219

Power, Violence and Fear	220

Low-power government	222

Chapter 21 ­ Government at War with Itself, and You	225

Design criteria for government	226

Architectures for cooperation, and for competition	227

Is US Democracy fixable?	229

Chapter 22 No Leaders	233

Meritocracy	234

No time?	235

No President?	236

No bias?	237

No psychopaths?	238

No elections?	239

Ideas should lead, not people	239

Chapter 23 The Trouble With Voting	243

Ideal Democracy and US Democracy	243

A vote against voting	244

Fake News	246

Confirmation Bias	247

Corruption	249

If not voting, then what?	251

Chapter 24 The Process of Science	253

Science 101	255

Does Science Work?	255

The Social Process of Science	256

Can Government Utilize the Process of Science?	259

Sen. Politics, meet Dr. Science	260

Chapter 25 Introduction to Reasonocracy	261

Don’t we already use reason in government?	262

Direct Democracy	263

Random Selection of Representatives	265

Can it work?	267

Recap	268

Chapter 26 Some Days in the Life of a Reasonocrat	271

Recap	279

Chapter 27 Tools For Reasonocracy	283

Goals	283

The Devil's in the Details	284

Negotiation	285

Human Limitations	287

Justify	287

Language	288

A Tale Of Two Governments	289

Complexity	292

Can We Afford Government by Reason?	293

Part 5 How can we get along in...?	295

Chapter 28 Constructionism: Education for Makerism	297

Instructionism: The factory model of education	298

Constructionism	299

Cooperation and competition in education	300

Meta-knowledge	302

Complexity	303

Leaning about life skills	304

Self-Sufficient U.	305

Online education	306

Education: The real panacea	307

Chapter 29 Infrastructure	309

Solutions	311

Infrastructure and Cooperation	319

Chapter 30 Transportation	321

Reduce Transportation	323

Efficient Transportation	326

Personal Rapid Transit	326

Autonomous Automobiles	329

Hyperloop	330

Airplanes	332

Efficient Goods Transportation	333

Chapter 31 Changing Climate Change	335

Problems Galore	341

Piecemeal Solutions	341

Disease, Migration and the BIG FIX	345

Chapter 32 Justice	349

Police	350

White Collar Crime	352

The Prison Industrial Complex	356

Chapter 33 Guns	359

Solutions	359

Chapter 34 War Crimes	365

The war frame and the crime frame	366

Does the war frame make sense for combatting crime?	367

Chapter 35 War	373

Chapter 36 Deploying Innovation	385

Yankee Ingenuity	385

Why are we stuck?	385

Two steps forward, but how many steps back?	386

Heuristics for self-improvement	389

Generate & Test and Hill Climbing	390

Goal stacks	392

Who decides about deploying innovation?	394

Little Government	395

Big Companies	395

Little companies	396

Consumer Reluctance	397

Is that mousetrap really better?	397

Some mousetraps aren’t better	398

Bang Per Buck	398

Net solutions	398

Partial vs Precluding Solutions	399

Sufficiency of solutions	399

Search By Design	401

Recap: The real Innovator’s Dilemma	401

Chapter 37 Afterword	403

Appendices	407

Chapter 0 Frequently Asked Questions	409

Chapter 1 Bibliography	434

Chapter 2 Index	435

Chapter 3 About the Authors	437

Bibliography

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Index

A

Artificial intelligence	3

C

complexity	2-4

F

Ferguson, Missouri	1

L

Los Angeles	1

P

Prisoner's Dilemma	11, 13, 19-21, 26, 28, 40

R

Rodney King	1

S

scarcity	3

society	13, 19, 30, 31, 34, 38