twofish on Nostr: Some light reading 😂 "physical power is still the primary means through which they ...

Some light reading 😂

"physical power is still the primary means through which they settle territory disputes and resolve conflicting abstract beliefs about property rights. They write rules of law to define property rights, but then they use physical power to solve disputes about what the “legitimate” rule of law is, or what the “right” property rights should be. While there are many examples in everyday life where law successfully settles human intraspecies property disputes, what people often overlook is the long history of physical disputes that were used to instantiate those laws (in other words, our property rights exist because of the wars fought to establish those property rights)."
- Softwar

"Every organism can be attacked; therefore, every organism has a BCRA. An organism’s BCRA is a simple fraction determined by two variables: the benefit of attacking it (BA) and the cost of attacking it (CA). BA is a function of how resource abundant an organism is. Organisms with lots of precious resources have high BA. Organisms with less precious resources have lower BA. On the flip side of the equation, CA is a function of how capable and willing an organism is at imposing severe physical costs on attackers. Organisms capable of and willing to impose severe physical costs on neighboring organisms have high CA. Organisms that are not capable of or willing to impose severe physical costs on neighboring organisms have low CA. Higher BCRA organisms are more vulnerable to attack than lower BCRA organisms because they offer a higher return on investment for hungry neighbors to devour. Organisms therefore have an existential imperative to lower their BCRA as much as they can afford to do so by increasing their capacity and inclination to impose severe physical costs on neighboring organisms. An organism can’t just devote all their time and energy towards increasing their resource abundance and expect to prosper for long, because doing so would cause their BCRA to climb"...
-Softwar

And it goes on and on about organisms adapting to this law of nature, among other things.

I think depending on property rights as the fundamental mechamsims is ignoring the watts aspect of what it takes to control a resource.

As far as other people's property, the BCRA is fundamental, and libertarian property rights is abstract power. I just like having this perspective rather than assuming that if I respect other people's property that the reverse will be true. There is so much to think about here, but if I am a plant, and I grow above another plant (using the watts that I collected already), taking light away from the below plant, did I infring on the lower plant's property rights? In a court case, that may be the case. Water rights for example has rules to account for this. As humans we have to deal with both physical power and abstract power. Nature doesn't care about abstract power.