How much counterfactually available outcome-value is left on the table by Hansonian instincts?
I.e. you have a community that tries to achieve X, but they don't achieve X as well as they could because of social status drives. How much better could they achieve X if they didn't have those drives (at same level of intelligence)
Update. Turns out that John #Deere has been using open code under the #GPL w/o living up to the license. The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) is calling on it to comply — which would greatly enhance #farmers' #RightToRepair.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/
"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."
We could quarantine them all incommunicado on an island with no technology newer than 1920, if you want a humane option.
Behold, the rarest card in all of magic:
Foil Tengwar The One Ring
(Only one copy printed.)
Cassius: Brutus, might I entreat a word?
Cassius: Hail... Brutus?
Brutus: Caesar must die.