# Individualism

`kaal:entity:individualism`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 5 claims that carry the concept tag `individualism`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

5 claims across 2 works, 2020 to 2021.

**2020**

- [3709041-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-001) [mechanism/argued] -- Centralized coordination of behavior for the common good risks undermining individual effort, whereas blockchain technology's autonomous and anonymous decentralized coordination of individual action can deliver common good outcomes without suppressing individualism and its welfare enhancing effects.
  > While centralized common good coordination of human behavior risks undermining individual effort, blockchain technology's autonomous and anonymous decentralized network coordination of individual human action can help overcome the threat to individualism and its welfare enhancing effects.
  Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**2021**

- [3808867-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-001) [mechanism/argued] -- Decentralized systems create a self reinforcing feedback loop between unique individual inputs and personal freedom: as the quality of unique individual inputs improves the system, the system places higher value on the uniqueness of human inputs, and personal liberties expand as a result.
  > As the system improves with the quality of unique individual inputs, the system increasingly values the uniqueness of human inputs, and as a result, personal liberties and freedom increase.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867
- [3808867-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-002) [mechanism/argued] -- Decentralized systems invert the collectivist tradeoff: rather than demanding that individuals sacrifice personal fulfilment for the group, they prioritize personal fulfilment because it produces the unique inputs and innovation that raise the collective wisdom of the group.
  > Where collectivism would demand a sacrifice of personal fulfilment for the group, decentralized systems would prioritize personal fulfilment as it enhances unique inputs and innovation that increase the collective wisdom of the group.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867
- [3808867-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-003) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Appeals to individual sacrifice for a common good constitute ethical collectivism, which corrupts society and undermines the reason and rational thought of individuals.
  > Appeals to a human individualistic sacrifice for a common good is a form of ethical collectivism which corrupts society and undermines reason and rational thoughts of individuals.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867
- [3808867-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-032) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Because of its autocratic and efficiency focused tendencies, centralized algorithmic automation is prone to create structures for the evolution of dataism, which ultimately denies the value of human inputs and individualism.
  > Because of it autocratic and efficiency focused tendencies, centralized algorithmic automation is prone to create structures for the evolution of dataism, which ultimately denies the value of human inputs and individualism.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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