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How this connects to the book
This topic runs through The Stones Don't Lie, which follows twelve thousand years of systems that promised cooperation and delivered control. The six hypotheses the book draws from that history are in how to design a society that cooperates without being forced, and the works it talks with are in the reading list.
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