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by igorkraw 4y ago
...you know why they need to do that? Because they have an incentive to let basically anyone join and have an adversarial relationship. A workers cooperative can be a faceless organisation, but unlike a company it is also an actual commun
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by igorkraw 4y ago
With natural monopolies like those promoted by the network effects crypto projects pin their hopes on the stable point is the same, minus democratic institutions ensuring some semblance of justice and equity.
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Sounds like fun in jurisdictions where seeding a torrent can get you a copyright lawsuit like my native Germany
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Can't help for the 2nd one. For the first one, I assume it's a mix of rust is amazing, a few initial libraries made it easy to set up crypto projects and it has grown into an ecosystem, for low latency bit banging like you might n
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I'm not against religion, but you just want to add you don't need religion to get what I think is the good core of religions: healing stories and narratives, texts, mantras, rituals that help you in the moment, a community which
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by igorkraw 4y ago
No, I'm simply asking the inconvenient question, that's different. How can it change?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Might be a European perspective, but I wonder how much a "right to speak to a human" would improve Bit UX as a 2nd order effect. Like, after a certain amount of revenue, your 1st level support needs to be able to be able to( or fo
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I meant things like the current Twitter debacle where it might be costlier for Twitter to enforce a legally binding contract than for them to go along with Musk wanting to renegotiate, or the cost and risk of a patent litigation making it e
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by igorkraw 4y ago
And where do you plant the crops or build the wind turbines and solar plants to harness these?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
The amount of trust displayed in a supposedly trustless ecosystem is amazing to me
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Okay, so how do we go from "better than the average human in 50% of specific benchmarks" to "AGI that might lead to human extinction" then? Keeping in mind the logarithmic improvement observed with the current approaches
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by igorkraw 4y ago
From the top of my head - Suing a powerful adversary if you are in the right - democratically changing a law (and abolishing old laws) to adapt to changed technologies - patents and copyright as a way to motivate innovation (those are trans
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by igorkraw 4y ago
All of this AGI risk stuff always hinges on the idea of us building an AGI, while nobody has any idea of how to get there. I need to finish my PhD first, but writing a proper takedown of the "arguments" bubbling out of the Hype
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by igorkraw 4y ago
But unless you have a completely independent physical layer, that network and alias is only reachable via an IP you rent or buy from the normal Systems. So what's the added value once you have that IP pointing somewhere? Like, if every
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by igorkraw 4y ago
You are probably getting downvoted because of people objecting to framing human relationships as owning property. I want to point out to the downvoters that this post did not endorse this, but simply claimed it's traditionally so, wh
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by igorkraw 4y ago
So again, what can you do with it? What's the usage except "I have it and you can't"? Because, if you use it to point to an IP, who's giving you that IP? An asset has value, just because you call it an asset doesn
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Without armchair parenting: people always say this, but the better parents in my life I have have never ever seen using punishment , only consequences that were clearly communicated ahead of time. And for those parents, looking disappointe
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by igorkraw 4y ago
What is is it good for compared to a traditional domain? If it's censorship resistance,if you break the laws of your country using it, how will you hide from the police trying to force you to take down the content?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
And believers always pull of this subtle shift in frame: you bring in trust-less peer to peer decentralised networks, and of course there's no other solution, because it's a setting invented by the same people who came up with c
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by igorkraw 4y ago
There is: Horowitz celebrated "art of electronics" https://artofelectronics.net/
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by igorkraw 4y ago
First I would like to thank you for actually engaging in a non-defensive way. Second, I would like to point out some flaws I see in your argumentations: On ruling class/"dependency hierarchy":no, there does not always need to
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Given the great success of trickle down economics, benevolent dictators etc. throughout history, I call this out as the bad rhetorical technique of "no, but this time it is different". The very framing of dividing "civiliza
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by igorkraw 4y ago
No it's not. If you run a trust based economy without clear property rights, this whole scenario doesn't exist. If you have property rights, you have a state to enforce them, so that state has a court, sues Alice (or Bob), sues Jo
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by igorkraw 4y ago
No, you aren't going insane. Cryptocurrency (block Chain ledger+distributed consensus) so far has no use case that is not covered by better technology. The one thing it facilitates (an online, permissionless, trustless, decentralised,l
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Nice job, are you available in europe? If not, do you know any competitor doing something similar/when are you heading here?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I agree with you on the more nuanced distinction, I just didn't want to open the discussion of what legitimate power structures constitue. Re your criticism of left-anarchism, one of the big unsolved challenges in my eye is exactly you
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by igorkraw 4y ago
It's really not that hard. Libertarians, minarchists and "anarcho-capitalists" take one of the things which inherently need a state to uphold it (private property) and use it as the conceptual foundation of their social ord
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by igorkraw 4y ago
> more political science than history? The fall or the Roman Empire is a part of history, but how it’s used in political discourse has nothing to do with history, until decades from now anyway This exact example shows how interwoven they
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by igorkraw 5y ago
> Should our government protect (idiots|naive investors) from getting scammed? While the answer for me is yes I also dislike the framing of this. We live in a society that (the US even more than Europe) 1. Over centuries has moved towa
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Are they? I have a couple of Russian expat friends on Switzerland and Germany. This might be my bubble and I appreciate your calling out a bias in who we think of as "foreign" but I'm not sure it's this clean cut

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