What would you have me do instead?
Decorate the concept like a fucking christmas tree and argue about the diferences in ornaments?
Mate, technology has 3 building blocks:
Anytime one of these is "no" then it's not tech people use.
If it's not buildable (or unprofitable to build) noone will have acess to it, no matter how great the benefits are.
If it's not sustainable, there's no reason to keep it around, so no reason to build it.
If it's not efficient, it will not be sustainable against competitors and thus not be built at all.
You wanna argue metaphors, argue with these 3 blocks since governments and technologies are techs too.
Is your government buildable? (do you have the resources to do it?)
Is your government sustainable? (can it keep it's integrity and power structure?)
Is your government efficient? (is it good at doing what it's suposed to do?
Ancap is a "yes, yes, no" situation.
You can build it, since the requisites are zero. You can sustain it, since everyone sustains himself (or dies). But it's not efficient, since it doesn't do what it's meant to do.
Ancaps main goal is ensure your private property and your private rights.
Simply abolishing the state, police and laws is the least efficient way to do so.
Having an NAP is not efficient way to do it.
At the end of the day, someone will fail. He's unfit, or he's lazy, or just bad luck. When he fails to survive on his own, he'll get hungry.
And I dunno how popular this saying is in your country, but in mine everyone knows it: "Hungry people have no laws."
Sure, some criminals do it for the heck of it, some do it because they want more luxury or for greed. But there's a bunch of people that do it because they need to. It's survival at it's fittest.
Socialism decided that you should help these people back up on their feet with the help of everyone.
Capitalism decided that person can always get back on her feet by making a profit of anything.
Fascism decided that person will get back up on it's feet wether it wants to or not.
Ancap decide that person either dies of starvation or from getting shot in the head.
OR, if he has the foresight to notice he's going to starve and hire additional arms, he's going to make sure YOU either die from starvation or getting shot.
Yeah, my bad. I was wrong here. Many inventions had their basis on something we observed in nature (like the whole field of ergonomics). But a few of them DO in fact have an origin on someone truly discovering something new one day. Pretty much stumbling on something noone ever thought of before.
You're right here.
You're talking about that "Singularity Event" thing right?
I only work with hardware. Software is out of my scope, all the knowledge I have about it is from hobbism and curiosity. I know about the "NP and P problems" theory for instance and some it's implcations but I rarely manage to remember the specifics of it.
I guess when that point happens, all bets are off. Current technological trends tell us "no system may produce another system with a higher complexity order".
Genetic algorithms eschew the "making a complex system" to "make a simple system that produces complex systems".
From what I know about hardware, the problem always comes back to parmethers. A system is never as complex as the one who built it because it is unable to adquire new parameters or respond to new things.
Genetic algorythms might change that, or they might make machines simply learn up to our level. I really don't know here user.
It's fascinating stuff, but I'll take your word for it since we're already going off from my expertise.