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by irickt 9y ago
"Government" is governance of humans by humans. It has never been "good" because the past is so dismal and because humans collectively have not come to make it good. The challenge for those who critize government generic
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by irickt 9y ago
Surprisingly diverse and real set of applications. Personal favorite "Robotic jockeys control camels".
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Robots at Work and Play (photos)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by irickt 9y ago|1 comments
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Jobs, basic income, and the future of the techno-market economy(understandingsociety.blogspot.com)
2 points by irickt 9y ago|0 comments
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by irickt 9y ago
This is to comply with currency naming standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217 Same reason XBT for bitcoin is prefered by some to BTC.
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by irickt 9y ago
Cause in the opposite direction may be more fundamental, though in evolution all cause is circular. Because the world is variable a necessary adaptation in every lineage is a corresponding variability in each of its systems, subject to home
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The Nihilism of Julian Assange(nybooks.com)
25 points by irickt 9y ago|14 comments
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by irickt 9y ago
Yes, I was surprised that the article didn't mention neurogenesis. It's worth pointing out a result from game theory: Given related individuals (using the example of two shepard brothers who may signal each other for help) there a
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by irickt 9y ago
(I'm not affiliated wit Tezos.) The tezos protocal has a major innovation over others: formal governance by the owners of the tokens. It is also proof of stake from the beginning. In general they have made a lot of smart design decisio
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by irickt 9y ago
On the principal author's site this is referred to as the "foundational paper": https://www.prospectivepsych.org/sites/www.prospectivepsych....
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by irickt 9y ago
Here is a plausible explanation: People can't convert to local currency so they are investing in anything to diversify. https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6a0cyz/when... >>> w
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by irickt 9y ago
Is your work available to read?
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by irickt 9y ago
Though if I remember correctly he is a Buddhist.
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by irickt 9y ago
An insider who saw the failure coming (includes a promo video also like parody) ... http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas...
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by irickt 9y ago
It's a fair question. The quote is one reviewer's opinion. I posted it without explanation as context for the paper. A more neutral warning is that Tegmark has moved from conventional science towards untestable speculation. That a
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by irickt 9y ago
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6551 >>> Tegmark’s career is a rather unusual story, mixing reputable science with an increasingly strong taste for grandiose nonsense. In this book he indu
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by irickt 10y ago
Perhaps adding to the confusion, an unrelated science writer with a similar name, writing on some similar topics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ridley_(zoologist)
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by irickt 10y ago
Bitcoin only "solves" one part of trust. The blockchain transaction is perfect but to be of any use there is a corresponding exchange of some service or good or title. Even if the transaction is to exchange currencies from two dif
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by irickt 10y ago
(2015)
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Putin’s Intelligence Crisis(nybooks.com)
2 points by irickt 10y ago|0 comments
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by irickt 10y ago
HN discussion of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086751
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The Beginning of the End of Sharing Banking Credentials(cdt.org)
2 points by irickt 10y ago|0 comments
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by irickt 10y ago
Under Google's standard lease terms a City may withdraw from the lease at any time without penalty. Google would then find another site and restore the original site. Edit: http://atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Fi
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by irickt 10y ago
and from there a pdf https://www.principles.com/assets/artifacts/Bridgewater-Asso...
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by irickt 10y ago
The larger point of that article is an important frame for this discussion: Everyone's income is based on the total economic surplus. No one's value to society is equivalent to their income.
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by irickt 10y ago
That may be. Here seems to be the heart of the argument: https://meaningness.com/meaningness >>> Maintaining the confused stances — eternalism, nihilism, and existentialism — is actually impossible, because they ar
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by irickt 10y ago
> people project this onto us You might be suggesting an unconscious and in a sense innocent psychological bias. I also allow that a comment like the GP is in a style intended to twist and inflame. In this context the motivation could be
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by irickt 10y ago
I have had the feeling that HN has been surreptiously invaded by a troll army, specifically tasked with corrupting the ongoing discovery of consensus.
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by irickt 10y ago
Some part of it is open source: https://github.com/tschellenbach/Stream-Framework
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by irickt 10y ago
direct link, on the cartoonist's site: http://www.laurenweinstein.com/#/genius-of-learning/

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