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I believe technology has a key part to play in a more fair, yet still highly efficient, marketplace. The government should think about supporting or even manda
by ilaksh 5y ago
I believe technology has a key part to play in a more fair, yet still highly efficient, marketplace.
The government should think about supporting or even mandating technical frameworks or protocols for information exchange and commerce. For example, much (although by no means all) of what Amazon does with it's product sales that provides a lot of the value is provide an information service that collects and queries a wide range of product data.
Cryptocurrencies are the starting point for this. Along with other types of decentralized systems which provide, despite the name, the best ways we have to operate large scale systems holistically (as well as democratically).
But to take a step back, rather than mandating protocols that could easily become dated and detrimental, prescribe or at least very strongly encourage systems for sharing, subscribing to and consuming those protocols. Maybe things like package registries, or perhaps package registries for smart contract programming libraries.
But overall, I do not think that we can have effective government that is not integrated into society in a high tech way. And despite the track record of governments being horrible, I doubt we can function without them.
- ilaksh 5y agoWow! A lot of downvotes this time with no comment! That's how I know it was a good idea! And I should keep making the comment over and over regardless of how unpopular it is. Because the unpopularity of my comment is a hint that I know something that other people do not.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago> Because the unpopularity of my comment is a hint that I know something that other people do not. It may be. Or it may be that you're saying something that's obviously bogus to everyone else. Downvotes only give you one bit of information, and it's orthogonal to the "right/wrong" axis.
- ilaksh 5y agoBogus in what way I wonder? Historically, ideas that were "obviously bogus" were often unpopular.
- UncleMeat 5y agoAnd many ideas that are actually wrong are also unpopular. "I'm right because they don't like me" is not the best reasoning.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoYeah. "Right ideas are often unpopular" is not logically the same as "unpopular ideas are usually right".