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taelor comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: taelor 20 November 2014 07:55:25PM 3 points [-]

kings and patriarchy have been around for 5000+, which implies that they have some selective advantage.

This implies that they represent a stable equilibrium. Stable does not imply optimal (though depending on your time-prefernces and degree of risk-aversion, optimal may imply stable).