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They're trying really hard to solve a problem that hasn't been solved yet, which requires placing oneself beyond the "reason" of skeptics. https://www.lockhave
by api 5y ago
They're trying really hard to solve a problem that hasn't been solved yet, which requires placing oneself beyond the "reason" of skeptics.
https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm
Their solutions may not and perhaps probably will not work because it's a hard problem.
The payoff for solving this problem is civilization without single points of failure. No more wheel of rising and falling empires that take all our progress and knowledge with them when they die. No more pretending to bow down to megalomaniacs and ideologues to achieve stability. No more vast centralized moral hazards that attract sociopaths like moths to a lamp.
I've taken to calling the zero-trust decentralization problem "computer science's fusion." It's perpetually N years away, but if we solve it the payoff is immense.
Edit: Proof of work sort of kind of solves it, but not really, and at tremendous cost. Nevertheless the fact that it gets close is maybe suggestive that the real solution is somewhere nearby.
- dash2 5y agoI'm really sorry, bud, but I count you as one of my "beyond reason" group. Sure, your technical solution will bring in utopia!
- api 5y agoThere will never be a utopia because when you eliminate one set of problems you reveal new ones. The fact that we are even discussing this is because we are not dying of cholera, starving, or being eaten by lions. The goal is to advance one step at a time. Eliminating civilizational SPOFs would be a fairly large step.
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- micromacrofoot 5y agonone of this is a computer problem, they're all people problems
- dmitriid 5y ago> Proof of work sort of kind of solves it, but not really, and at tremendous cost. Nevertheless the fact that it gets close is maybe suggestive It doesn't solve it, and it will never be close. If you ant just one reason, it's easy: enforcement. You smart contracts mean zilch if you can't enter a house some scammer just sold you.
- dash2 5y agoYup. Cheap slogan: noone has yet decentralized the gun.