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by dqpb 4y ago
Before committing all your time to solidity, I recommend taking at least a quick look at Algorand as an alternative. https://developer.algorand.org/
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by dqpb 4y ago
> Status is zero sum Nobody really likes status. Everybody likes competence. Competence increases the pie for everybody.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> This is the very definition of a shallow dismissal Short and succinct is not the same as shallow. > You are trying to insinuate that people who believe crypto is bad technology and bad for society, are doing the equivalent of arguin
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by dqpb 4y ago
The skeptic voices are almost always as idiotic as the hype voices.
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by dqpb 4y ago
You could replace “crypto” with “web” and it would make these statements equally broad and absurd.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Temporal Difference Learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_difference_learning
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by dqpb 4y ago
This sounds false. Couldn’t you make the same argument about the entire stock market?
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by dqpb 4y ago
> “Supposed” by whom? It’s fundamentally what a market is. It’s like me saying a sorting algorithm is supposed to produce a sorted set, and you saying ‘“Supposed” by whom?’
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by dqpb 4y ago
> There is no objective way to determine the value of a thing outside of the economy. Claims like this are in general not well-founded.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I disagree, I think there are many tools we could use to quantify it. For example, Reinforcement Learning is primarily about quantifying value. Operations Research also has similar tools for estimating value. And of course, markets themselv
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by dqpb 4y ago
The economy is supposed to be a pure meritocracy, where decision making authority is allocated to each person in proportion to the value they produce. Every deviation from this is parasitic to the system.
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by dqpb 4y ago
State Machines are the natural paradigm in TLA+. OOP is just poorly organized state machines. Try rewriting an OO program with state machines and you’ll have something that directly maps to TLA+, and it should demystify much of formal verif
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by dqpb 4y ago
My working hypothesis is that we have a hierarchy of intelligence: 1. Emotional responses are the output of a policy that has been trained over the course of evolution. If you convinced yourself out of an emotional response, but it turns ou
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by dqpb 4y ago
I’m a little disturbed by the nonstandard ordering of these options
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by dqpb 4y ago
Nobody has ever asked me what my GPA was.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Isn’t this more-or-less how Chinas social credit score works?
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by dqpb 4y ago
In RL, reward does not mean positive only. You could train an agent on purely negative rewards and it would optimize for the policy that is least negative. Also, +1 and -1 do cancel each other out by definition. If your model has suffering
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by dqpb 4y ago
what does ether-rot refer to?
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by dqpb 4y ago
I want a game, driven by AI, whose sole reward metric is my biological response, like maximize heart rate, eye dilation, adrenaline, etc. I want to see if an AI can break me.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Bitcoin launched the industry. But I think Algorand is a better technology. The historicity of Satoshi/Bitcoin is not something I care about when evaluating the actual technical details.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Take a look at Turing Award winner Silvio Micali's talk on the Algorand proof-of-stake protocol, and you will have a better understanding of why Bitcoin is needlessly wasteful: https://youtu.be/NykZ-ZSKkxM
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by dqpb 4y ago
Bitcoins proof-of-waste system is a dealbreaker for me.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I think the right way to roll this out is to create a new party as an abstraction layer between the new proposed system and the existing system. Within the party, you can use whatever voting mechanism you like to set the agenda of the party
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by dqpb 4y ago
The interview stats for the company and candidates should be available to the matchmakers. If matchmakers see that a company never hires, then they will stop wagering on matches for that company. As for crypto adoption, I would treat it as
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by dqpb 4y ago
> A good portion of this value is predicated on the reality that consumers and businesses have cash to spend Your argument is that I’m overestimating the value engineers produce because that value depends on them getting paid to do the w
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by dqpb 4y ago
I think you can do better than using crypto as a flat incentive to apply for jobs. A better application, in my opinion, would be to create a matchmaking market. From the view of the job seeker, they would see a list of jobs sorted by how go
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by dqpb 4y ago
Engineers produce way more value than they’re paid. That will be even more true during a recession if companies freeze hiring. (Although one could make a queuing theory argument that a hiring freeze could reduce efficiency of existing engin
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by dqpb 4y ago
> society keeping the 'less fit' members procreating Society is part of the ecosystem within which fitness is determined.
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by dqpb 4y ago
A currency could be a good investment if you expect the value backing the currency to outpace or be more stable than the value backing other currencies or assets. But in my opinion, Bitcoin is not backed by a lot of value, rather it’s backe
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by dqpb 4y ago
This sounds far-fetched, until you count the hours per day that people currently spend in front of one screen or another, and then it doesn’t sound far-fetched at all.

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