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Subject: Re: A Mathematical Model for Radical Centrism
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I want to thank Neil Olsen for fleshing out something I dashed off on
the spur of the moment.  It works better than I had hoped.  My original
thought was that one measure of the desirability of a society was the
size of the "satisfaction space" bounded by the degrees of freedom and
security that it affords.  Overoptimizing for either freedom or security 
results in a smaller, distorted region along the favored axis.

        ^
        |
      f |
      r |.   .        <- Libertaria
      e |!!!     .
      e |!!!       . 
      d |###++++++++ .    <- The evasive optimum
      o |###++++++++  .
      m |@@@%%%%%%%%===.
        |@@@%%%%%%%%===.        <- The "iron rice bowl"
        --------------------->
               security


					Baba