Table of Contents

Dedication	5

Acknowledgments	7

Chapter 0 Introduction	1

Chapter 1 Preface	7

Part 1 What keeps us from getting along?	11

Chapter 2 Jailbreaking the Prisoner's Dilemma	13

The Prisoner’s Dilemma	14

From MADness to Cooperation	23

From War to Evolutionary Biology	25

When Competition Beats Cooperation	28

We’re All Prisoners of Reality	31

War	31

Pretend wars and real wars	34

Capitalism	35

Commercial competition: Value proposition	36

Commercial competition: Advertising	37

Environmental pollution	38

Political gridlock	38

Racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination	39

Reducing Recidivism in the Prisoners’ Dilemma	40

Recap	42

Chapter 3 Learn About The Ultimatum Game -- Or Else	45

Trickle down theories	48

Chapter 4 Survival of the Most Cooperative	53

Cancer	55

Scarcity = Competition; Abundance = Cooperation	57

Past scarcity and future abundance	62

Recap	64

Part 2 Does human nature allow us to get along?	67

Chapter 5 Is it even possible to get along?	69

Goal stacks	70

What if the goal stacks don’t match?	72

If your goal stacks differ, trade	74

Once our goal stacks align, we can collaborate on solutions	75

Reaching agreement by taming complexity	76

Chapter 6 Interpersonal Relations	79

Abundance to the rescue, sort of	84

Keeping up with the post-scarcity Joneses?	86

Conclusion	88

Recap	88

Chapter 7 Genderism	91

Chapter 8 Nationalism and Racism are Obsolete	97

Cultural and historical differences do not imply “nationality”	99

Racism: A failure of science education	100

American Unexceptionalism	102

Chapter 9 Can at Least Some of Us Get Along?	105

Consensus process	106

Lack of consensus on consensus	111

Consensus in Intentional Communities	113

Cooperative Enterprise	115

Chapter 10 Sometimes, irrationality doesn't make sense	119

Chapter 11 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation	127

Competition and extrinsic motivation	129

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation and the Prisoner's Dilemma	131

You can win fabulous prizes!	133

The bankruptcy of incentive	135

Livin’ the Life of Riley?	136

Part 3 Can we get along economically?	139

Chapter 12 The Productivity of Dead People	141

Inequality and Incentive	143

The Fundamental Theorem of Capitalism	143

We’re all heirs to the fortune of Technology	145

Your check’s in the mail	146

Can money buy happiness?	148

Poverty is too expensive	149

Chapter 13 ­ The World's Best Business Model	151

Chapter 14 Slapped by the Invisible Hand	157

The Myths of Capitalism	157

Chapter 15 Can Capitalism Be Saved?	171

Capitalism’s Life Expectancy	171

Tweaks to Capitalism	172

Big Changes	174

Communism	174

Plutocracy	174

The jagged spiral of progress	175

Chapter 16 Makerism	177

The economics of Makerism	179

Meet the Makers	181

When is this going to happen?	183

Civilization	184

Chapter 17 Software Makerism	187

The key to programming is language	188

Hackathons and the Maker movement	191

Chapter 18 Artificial Intelligence: Not the Son of Frankenstein	195

Chapter 19 A Day in the Post-Scarcity Life	201

Part 4 Can government help us get along?	213

Chapter 20 The Beginning of History	215

Chapter 21 Toward Low-Power Government	219

Power, Violence and Fear	220

Low-power government	222

Chapter 22 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 23 No Leaders	233

Meritocracy	234

No time?	235

No President?	236

No bias?	237

No psychopaths?	238

Ideas should lead, not people	238

Chapter 24 The Trouble With Voting	241

Ideal Democracy and US Democracy	241

A vote against voting	242

Fake News	244

Confirmation Bias	244

Corruption	246

If not voting, then what?	247

Chapter 25 The Process of Science	249

Science 101	251

Does Science Work?	251

The Social Process of Science	252

Can Government Utilize the Process of Science?	254

Politics meets Science	255

Chapter 26 Introduction to Reasonocracy	257

Don’t we already use reason in government?	258

Direct Democracy	259

Random selection of representatives	261

Can it work?	262

Recap	263

Chapter 27 Some Days in the Life of a Reasonocrat	265

Chapter 28 Tools For Reasonocracy	275

Goals	275

The Devil's in the Details	276

Negotiation	276

Justify	279

Language	280

A Tale Of Two Governments	280

Power-Based Government Scenario	281

Reason-Based Government Scenario	281

Complexity	283

Can We Afford Government by Reason?	284

Part 5 How can we get along in...?	287

Chapter 29 Constructionism: Education for Makerism	289

Instructionism: The factory model of education	290

Constructionism	291

Cooperation and competition in education	292

Meta-knowledge	294

Complexity	295

Leaning about life skills	296

Self-Sufficient U.	297

Online education	298

Making Curricula	299

Education: The real panacea	300

Chapter 30 Transportation	301

Reduce Transportation	303

Efficient Transportation	306

Personal Rapid Transit	306

Autonomous Automobiles	309

Hyperloop	309

Airplanes	311

Terrafugia	311

Efficient Transportation of Goods	312

Chapter 31 Changing Climate Change	315

Problems Galore	319

Piecemeal Solutions	320

Disease, Migration and the BIG FIX	323

Chapter 32 Justice	325

Police	326

White Collar Crime	327

Racism	328

Determining Guilt	329

The Prison Industrial Complex	330

Chapter 33 Guns	333

Hunting	333

Home Defense	333

Car Defense	334

Police Misuse	335

Defense Against The Government: Militia	335

Anger	335

Drug Dealers	335

Freedom	336

Chapter 34 War Crimes	337

The war frame and the crime frame	338

Does the war frame make sense for combatting crime?	339

Chapter 35 War	345

The citizen	345

The President	346

The Secretary of State	349

The General	350

The Congressman	351

The Recruit	352

The Terrorist	353

The Terrorist’s Brother, Demha Ahmed	354

The Vet	355

Chapter 36 Deploying Innovation	357

Yankee Ingenuity	357

Why are we stuck?	357

Two steps forward, but how many steps back?	358

Heuristics for self-improvement	360

Generate & Test and Hill Climbing	361

Goal stacks	363

Who decides about deploying innovation?	365

Little Government	366

Big Companies	366

Little companies	366

Consumer Reluctance	367

Is that mousetrap really better?	368

Some mousetraps aren’t better	368

Bang Per Buck	369

Net solutions	369

Partial vs Precluding Solutions	369

Sufficiency of solutions	370

Search By Design	371

Recap: The real Innovator’s Dilemma	372

Chapter 37 Afterword	375

Appendices	379

Chapter 38 Essential Reading	381

Part 1: What keeps us from getting along?	381

Part 2: Does human nature allow us to get along?	382

Part 3: Can we get along economically?	384

Part 4: Can government help us get along?	385

Part 5: Can we get along in…	385

Chapter 39 Frequently Asked Questions	387

Chapter 40 About the Authors	413

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