What would the enlightenment look like if it took game theory into account?

That's what I want to build.
By which I mean: people should live good lives, people should cooperate, etc.

But this must not be done naively. You have to realize that any system will attract parasites and cheats.
Perhaps one of the worst mistakes of enlightenment thinking is not realizing that a lot of our traditions, myths and prejudices functioned at least partially as mechanisms to control parasitism - though not without horrific side effects. https://twitter.com/CkLorentzen/status/1368164260497489920
The side effects were horrible, but now we're in a situation where parasitism is absolutely out of control.

The latest #superstraight trend is a great example. We have people who want to coerce straight men into having sexual relations with other men using moral arguments.
It's far from the only such issue though.

Over time I think this will get worse before it gets better. Expect more of this: people using sophistry and moral arguments to coerce the majority into giving them resources in same way.
One way that we can outwit parasites is to make systems less legible. You can actually see this happening with memes, pepes, 4chan, pseudonymous profiles etc. https://twitter.com/CkLorentzen/status/1368164580518748169
The crypto economy might fuel this as mainstream institutions have been pretty successfully parasitized.
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