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That's not how it works. But I'm sure you'd be defending paper ballots for voting forever as well. You're used to whatever works now, and I'd say that's like Lu
by EGreg 5y ago
That's not how it works. But I'm sure you'd be defending paper ballots for voting forever as well. You're used to whatever works now, and I'd say that's like Luddites (except the Luddites were actually reacting to the economics of industrialization, meaning the machines were actually replacing the human labor).
Look around you, in the last 100 years we got the ability to print and copy our own documents, to send emails and to write on forums, to use VOIP encrypted end to end, all without the permission of the government. It's based on open protocols that route around friction. Is it so far fetched that autonomous networks technology can also help obviate the need to trust intermediaries like we trusted the Post Office, the Newspaper Printers, Ma Bell and so forth? Really?
- dmitriid 5y ago> That's not how it works. That's exactly how it works > I'd say that's like Luddites Of course you'd say that. Because you have no arguments beyond flawed analogies. > Is it so far fetched that autonomous networks technology can also help obviate the need to trust intermediaries Yes. It is extremely far-fetched.