Systems can be designed to resist external control. The third foundation of the book, after the Action Axiom and the Argumentation Axiom, is the one a reader can coherently reject.

Resistance is the capacity to impose costs on adversaries attempting control. The claim rests on computational hardness conjectures that have survived decades of attack research, and on the empirical record of Tor since 2002, Bitcoin since 2009, and end-to-end encryption at scale.

Chapter 5: The Axiom of Resistanceby Max
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