The former discusses liberty in the context of clannish behaviour, arguing that it is the existence of the institutions of modern democracies that allows people individual liberty, as it precludes the need for clan structures (extended family groups, crime syndicates, patronage networks and such).
The latter is a author's summary of a white paper on the subject of decentralised Bitcoin prediction markets with a link to the paper.
Yeah, and the timeline doesn't work either. England and her American colonies had a large degree of individual liberty long before becoming "modern democracies."
A pair of links I found recently (via Marginal Revolution) and haven't found on LW:
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/03/10/mark-s-weiner/paradox-modern-individualism
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475054.0;all
The former discusses liberty in the context of clannish behaviour, arguing that it is the existence of the institutions of modern democracies that allows people individual liberty, as it precludes the need for clan structures (extended family groups, crime syndicates, patronage networks and such).
The latter is a author's summary of a white paper on the subject of decentralised Bitcoin prediction markets with a link to the paper.