ericb

48 ms·

751.
by ericb 8y ago
> There is seemly at least a Director of <insert title here> for everything. I would argue some of the things you list as causes of increasing tuition are the effects of tuition surpluses from additional income from a trillion
752.
by ericb 8y ago
> Raising the overall level of education in this country should be a much larger goal that it seems to be. On one level, I totally agree. At the same time, well-meaning attempts to make college loans available to everyone for everything
753.
by ericb 8y ago
> that it came into existence from nothingness You assume the default is "nothingness" but what if the default is "everythingness?"
754.
by ericb 8y ago
Similarly, my joke is that bitcoin is an alien species or hostile AI's bloodless, costless, infinitely scalable weapon to get potential spacefaring competitors to abort themselves by subverting their star's energy to fruitless lab
755.
by ericb 8y ago
> However, the only reason for bitcoin to exist is to avoid banks and payment processors. Not true. If your purpose is holding inflation-resistant money, payment processors and bitcoin banks may be perfectly ok.
756.
by ericb 8y ago
> Provably false. Bitcoin has been forked into multiple chains numerous time, creating many more then 21 million tokens. This is absurd. You could say the same for the dollar and the canadian dollar. You seem to think a new currency deva
757.
by ericb 8y ago
Why is it a "shitcoin"? Your comment is ...confusing.
758.
by ericb 8y ago
Hold up. That's really reductive. It isn't just a merkle tree. It's a merkle tree that you can look at and say "this merkle tree would cost 2 billion dollars to forge." This is valuable because if someone hands you
759.
by ericb 8y ago
> Consider the example of origin / provenance tracking. That's not a problem that needs to be solved by blockchain unless the company can't trust its own audit logs and database team. It is if: * you want if you want more
760.
by ericb 8y ago
I follow the point you're making. We do have options and perhaps if we were worried enough, they'd be put into effect. You could make AI research illegal. You could place massive R&D to human/brain interfaces. You could r
761.
by ericb 8y ago
I think the only way to win is to make sure the first one is perfectly friendly, or to make sure we are integrated with the first one. I don't give us great odds on either front.
762.
by ericb 8y ago
I think any breakaway AI would be a highlander situation in that it would ensure there can be only one.
763.
by ericb 8y ago
I think there might be some pretty draconian side effects to properly implementing GDPR, but I'd like to hear from someone who knows to what extent these things might be true: * The legal tracked information includes IP addresses, whic
764.
by ericb 8y ago
> If a Q/A site allowed basic questions then the site would be flooded with them since the population of novices greatly exceeds sophomores or experts. This is really excusing bad UI/UX (like surfacing existing answers while a
765.
by ericb 8y ago
Fixed rate debt. If you have an income that will keep pace with inflation and you have low-cost debt, like a mortgage, you get to pay off the "dollar amount" of that debt using the inflated funny money.
766.
by ericb 8y ago
I'm claiming that the realized potential was maybe 1/100th of what we have today. Perhaps I should have left 98 out, but the idea stands. And that's after the component parts had been around for years: https://www
767.
by ericb 8y ago
The web was nearly useless and mainly business card style web pages from 94-98 even though the building blocks were available.
768.
by ericb 8y ago
I feel like proof of work reduces to proof of stake because the rich get richer, there's just an intermediate step of buying miners with your dividend.
769.
by ericb 8y ago
What happens when bitcoin transaction fees spike again?
770.
by ericb 8y ago
> The senate is two votes per state... That's embarrassing that I forgot that. Is Tim Draper a republican?
771.
by ericb 8y ago
Interesting. Since the senate is one vote per state, what was California would go from 1 to 3 senators. If carved up in this manner, I wonder how the new states would vote?
772.
by ericb 9y ago
From 1993-1997 the internet had similar potential to what we use it for today, but the websites were roughly the equivalent of business cards. Nothing was real time. You couldn't get theater tickets, or shop, or do much of anything.
773.
by ericb 9y ago
If you read the Redfin 10k, they were doing this already as a service called "Redfin Now." I think it is interesting that two large data-driven pricing services are both pursuing this strategy. If you have better data, it might be
774.
by ericb 9y ago
The impossible problem of digital scarcity is finally solved, but it will have no practical uses.
775.
by ericb 9y ago
> People want a premium product, but a premium product doesn't exist. So, the market spoofs it with marketing. I had never heard it described this way. I love it.
776.
by ericb 9y ago
> then these 2 copies diverged and are not the same I agree. For me, this implies divergence, even divergence of location (which happens automatically on a copy) is a change of identity, and so true identity must be inextricably linked t
777.
by ericb 9y ago
There's no merge. The question is not whether it is a crime, that's irrelevant. The question is, which one you prefer I terminate. You, the one I'm talking to, or the other person in the other room. The preference most people
778.
by ericb 9y ago
Ok, I have a clone of you in the other room and a gun. I am going to kill either you or them. You pick. Who do you pick? Why? My suspicion is that most people suddenly realize they prefer the instance of their consciousness they are inhabit
779.
by ericb 9y ago
> Why would existence of a copy change anything? In programming it doesn't, yet you seem to argue it does. It isn't the copy that changes things. It is the potential of a copy that makes it glaringly obvious that the result is
780.
by ericb 9y ago
> If I cloned you, tortured your clone and killed it while you were asleep, then merged his memories to you - was it you who I was torturing or not? Why is the difference meaningful? If I merged the bash logs where I nuked rm -rf /

More ›