# Federated systems make it so disruptive changes cannot be completely damped out Both Chinese Govt and European Guilds resisted tech that would change the social order but the Chinese government could actually succeed. ### Related * [[Government monopolizing any role is dangerous]] * [[Decentralized systems are slow to come to a consensus]] * [[Decentralized systems are the ideal way to enable many uncorrelated mistakes]] * [[It takes a lot of bandwidth to pay attention to decentralized efforts]] * [[It is rational to try something that failed in the past as long as you explicitly call out why you will succeed when they failed]] * [[Federation]] ## References * [[mokyrLeverRichesTechnological1992]] * [[bahcallLoonshotsHowNurture2019]] <!-- #stub --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Federated+systems+make+it+so+disruptive+changes+cannot+be+completely+damped+out) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Federated+systems+make+it+so+disruptive+changes+cannot+be+completely+damped+out)