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> Should be be worried that the author of Accelerando complains about things going too fast? I think Accelerando itself is precisely complaining that things ar

> Should be be worried that the author of Accelerando complains about things going too fast? I think Accelerando itself is precisely complaining that things are going too fast. In the specific scenario in the novel, the incomprehensibly fast automation of capitalism is going to eat us all.

ineedasername 5y ago
IIRC, in Accelerando the ability by meat people to even vaguely understand Economics 2.0 required something like a literal bolt-on addition to the human cognition system.
- arethuza 5y ago
  Reading most stuff on "crypto" I tend to feel I need a bolt on to my cognition system - but then again I'm probably just getting old. :-)
  - Kye 5y ago
    Nine times out of ten, when something new seems too complex to understand, it's not. It's just been obfuscated to make it seem complicated to sell you something. Most genuinely new things haven't had time to get too complicated for one person to get a functional understanding of the whole situation. You could talk to web servers in telnet and make the most complex web page anyone had ever made in Notepad long before starting a new web thing from a guide required a half gigabyte download. Cryptocurrency is a small step forward with some potential to make online transactions easier. That's it. That's cryptocurrencies. Anyone making it more complicated is trying to fleece you. The most complicated thing is smart contracts, and what they are and what they do is right there in the name.
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      > Nine times out of ten, when something new seems too complex to understand, it's not. It's just been obfuscated to make it seem complicated to sell you something. Either that, or if it actually is as complicated as it seems... Then it's usually too complicated to work.[1] (Which is not to say that uncomplicated stuff can't also, sometimes, be bullshit. Like, IMO, crypto-"currencies".) ___ [1]: At least too complicated to work well, and/or in the long run.

ineedasername 5y ago

IIRC, in Accelerando the ability by meat people to even vaguely understand Economics 2.0 required something like a literal bolt-on addition to the human cognition system.

arethuza 5y ago
Reading most stuff on "crypto" I tend to feel I need a bolt on to my cognition system - but then again I'm probably just getting old. :-)
- Kye 5y ago
  Nine times out of ten, when something new seems too complex to understand, it's not. It's just been obfuscated to make it seem complicated to sell you something. Most genuinely new things haven't had time to get too complicated for one person to get a functional understanding of the whole situation. You could talk to web servers in telnet and make the most complex web page anyone had ever made in Notepad long before starting a new web thing from a guide required a half gigabyte download. Cryptocurrency is a small step forward with some potential to make online transactions easier. That's it. That's cryptocurrencies. Anyone making it more complicated is trying to fleece you. The most complicated thing is smart contracts, and what they are and what they do is right there in the name.
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    > Nine times out of ten, when something new seems too complex to understand, it's not. It's just been obfuscated to make it seem complicated to sell you something. Either that, or if it actually is as complicated as it seems... Then it's usually too complicated to work.[1] (Which is not to say that uncomplicated stuff can't also, sometimes, be bullshit. Like, IMO, crypto-"currencies".) ___ [1]: At least too complicated to work well, and/or in the long run.