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by gfodor 4y ago
I'm not making a claim on why it is superior, I'm commenting on the fact that its use for this purpose is evidence enough that some people feel it is the best choice for this problem.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Technology leads norms, not the other way around. Technology doesn't dictate norms, but forces materialization of norms that otherwise wouldn't be necessary.
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by gfodor 4y ago
> "in some cases, transacting against the law is a good thing" > "as a victim of ransomware, it is very much not a good thing" Blatantly fallacious argument, the point isn't to defend ransomware, but to defend
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by gfodor 4y ago
> Only if you consider making it easier to break the law to be solving a problem rather than creating one. The question at hand, raised by Schneier, is if the technology has the capability to solve any problems. This seems objectively tr
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by gfodor 4y ago
the bitcoin blockchain seems unlikely to ever stop producing blocks until the end of human civilization
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by gfodor 4y ago
That's not refuting my argument. My argument is that the general problem of being able to transact freely across the globe with radically reduced risk of government interception is a legitimate problem for many individuals now and in t
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by gfodor 4y ago
I read the article and do not see this point being made. Can you point it out?
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by gfodor 4y ago
There are many flaws in this perspective, but I'll pick one: the argument that there is no problem being solved with blockchain. This is trivially falsifiable: blockchains are being used to facilitate illegal transactions. Of course, f
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by gfodor 4y ago
The part where you moved BTC and ETH from the 'ponzi' slot to the 'not practical' slot will continue for other elements. BTC will slide into the next slot soon probably, going from 'not practical' to 'prac
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by gfodor 4y ago
You can repeat these claims all you want but ultimately we're going to just find out if this is true. It seems to me more likely its not true. At least, that a hypothetical future with minimal centralized exchange activity is also one
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by gfodor 4y ago
An equally plausible frame is that once a technology becomes replicated across several companies, it makes sense to open source it since the marginal competitive advantage are the possible resultant external network effects. I don't k
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by gfodor 4y ago
It’ll be thin eye covering passthrough goggles, full FoV
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by gfodor 4y ago
It becomes less clear when you consider theories like the “user interface” theory of reality by Donald Hoffman. The tl;dr is under that model the chemical and physical alterations we undertake are perceptual models far removed from the natu
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by gfodor 4y ago
It’s hard to ignore the fact that physical dynamics in the brain tightly correspond to qualia. There almost certainly is a connection between the computation going on in the brain and the experience of qualia - the question is more about th
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by gfodor 4y ago
Yeah I take it to mean this way too, its very strange that Descartes is controversial among eg panpsychics because of the fixation on the term 'think' - it seems pretty clear that he was just noticing that qualia exists and is the
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by gfodor 4y ago
One facet to the computational theory of consciousness that is worth considering is the experience of qualia may be latency-coupled, because the universe itself isn't scale invariant in terms of physical forces, etc. So it may be consi
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by gfodor 4y ago
I’ve literally never watched a Jordan Peterson video.
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by gfodor 4y ago
That’s a lot of questions. I don’t have time to write a blog post level response, but will try to write something useful a bit later.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Crypto is speed running it because it is trying to get to the terminal state of finance, but regulated through software and cryptography instead of centralized governments that have a monopoly on violence. Time will tell if this is possible
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by gfodor 4y ago
The far left in the US is materially different than the classical understanding of the far left. The far left in the US is now primarily concerned with pushing the goals of Critial Theory (a cultural neo-Marxist ideology, to oversimplify)
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by gfodor 4y ago
The left in the US is to the left of Europe now in many ways. By second tier I wasn’t referring to politics, but referring to our collapse into a weak economic and cultural power.
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by gfodor 4y ago
I knocked on doors for Obama. The far and now largely center left has gone insane.
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by gfodor 4y ago
If you read legislation going through the house it’s regularly full of Critical Theory terminology.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Nobody suggested injecting bleach. Great example of what I mean though.
565.
by gfodor 4y ago
The far left has been entirely captured by the illiberal (really, anti-liberal) sociopolitical frameworks of Critical Theory, and this has now fully been integrated into most modern day institutions by the ruling class, such as universities
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by gfodor 4y ago
I can empathize, but my point was in regards to the accusation of being a “conservative” by just coming down in the other direction on the lesser-of-two evils calculus. Sane Americans are struggling with the fact that there are good argumen
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by gfodor 4y ago
Good systems engineering can tolerate massive levels of incompetent and scrupulous operators.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Oh thanks that makes more sense, and is quite generous.
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by gfodor 4y ago
"The fundamentals" is doing a lot of work there. It's fundamentally unsafe to move at a high velocity in a meat-based body. Does this mean the risk profile of high speed transportation is invariant across technology? The &quo
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by gfodor 4y ago
China is going to do it, and you seem to believe the safety profile of nuclear energy technology has been frozen for 50 years. It's extremely strange to think something as broad as the process of nuclear fission can be spoken about as

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