Ambolia

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by Ambolia 6y ago
Unfortunately the format of most ebooks at Project Gutenberg is usually really bad. Usable on computer screen, but unusable on eBook readers. Just checked the "mobi" version of the volume 1 from this link, and it looks like all pa
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by Ambolia 6y ago
It's meta-capitalism, you are working at a level where you are creating and directing markets rather than just investing as an internal player, as well as guiding country policies for the same goal.
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by Ambolia 6y ago
Imaginary numbers are not so scary if you just think of them as 2d vectors with a different multiplication operation added to it.
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by Ambolia 6y ago
Even without moving to the practical realm, if you ask most people if they would slaughter 1 random healthy person if his organs could be used to save 5 people will say no. The trolley with the pulley is too sanitized.
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by Ambolia 6y ago
It's generally cheaper to buy a scientist than to buy a politician.
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by Ambolia 6y ago
The general public could choose to inform themselves through alternative institutions that got it correctly in the first place. But this is disincentiviced and labeled as conspiracy theories.
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by Ambolia 6y ago
Really nice project, seems like some keys to open up the internet again would be: - Decoupling of data (articles, videos, ...) from platforms. - Decoupling authorship claims from platforms - Decoupling online identities from platforms. - De
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by Ambolia 6y ago
I don't think zero-moderation is possible, at a minimum you'll have to ban bots and spam. The larger problem is concentration of communities in 3-4 big providers, there was heavy moderation before, but it was easy to move to a dif
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by Ambolia 6y ago
The same could be said about decentralization of information sources. And big tech seems to be trying to contain it rather than embrace it. Maybe not because they want, but because they get political pressure. If big tech can't embrace
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by Ambolia 6y ago
This is a related article: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/tech-solutions-to-the-tech... The first part is about politics, if you only care about the tech part, you can jump to the following headlines: - Encrypted cl
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by Ambolia 6y ago
"this claim about election fraud is disputed"