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by maaku 11y ago
Different stresses.
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by maaku 11y ago
I can assure you the Bitcoin Core developers see it the same way as you. But it seems that view is not universal among the userbase.
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by maaku 11y ago
> Hearn seems to be saying that Bitcoin right now is not really decentralized - aka the Chinese firewall problem and so much power already centralized in a few peoples hands. This is true, and people are working to fix it on many levels.
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by maaku 11y ago
> At the core of the debate is whether the Bitcoin blockchain should be a settlement layer that supports a number of new blockchains that can be scaled to achieve various goals or whether the Bitcoin blockchain itself should evolve in a
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by maaku 11y ago
The best sashimi I have ever had is from the small street stalls in front of the Tsukiji fish market. What will happen to those vendors? I worry there's a lot of surrounding culture and history that will die rather than move :(
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by maaku 11y ago
Most of the industrial revolution has been about replacing mindless physical labor with machines. The unemployed humans (or their children, typically) were given new jobs as "knowledge workers." In other words, jobs which required
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by maaku 11y ago
Then we're all fucked. Can we go home now?
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by maaku 11y ago
Stake in ... what?
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by maaku 11y ago
I'm quite aware :) Most people have experience running processes in isolated VMs for security reasons. I was trying to use that as an anchor point to explain why one might want to have components of a single operating system run as sep
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by maaku 11y ago
In case it wasn't clear, the GP was alluding to Hitler. I was noting that Hitler wrote Mein Kompf while in Landsberg jail on charges of high treason as a result of the Beer Hall Putsch. So he isn't really the exception the GP was
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by maaku 11y ago
What do you need the wealth for? Presumably to have your basic needs taken care of while you focus on writing. Being in prison also accomplishes that goal.
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by maaku 11y ago
Because Apple.
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by maaku 11y ago
Security. You ever run a process in its own VM for security reasons? A hypervisor is a microkernel with bloaty processes and even more hardware protections.
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by maaku 11y ago
> The real issue of course is what don't how intelligence actually works so it's impossible to set a fixed goalpost of when AI is truly achieved. No, the real issue is that people still think, intuitively, that there's a
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by maaku 11y ago
Ok, it's a more efficient way of burning coal. You're still CO2-emmision positive.
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by maaku 11y ago
Um, that's just a fancier way of burning coal.
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by maaku 11y ago
Yes, and yes.
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by maaku 11y ago
It's not a binary option. It's possible to be anti-fractional reserve while not requiring 100% reserves for everything. Mutual credit economies, for example, require no backing store, giving all the advantages of fractional reserv
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by maaku 11y ago
That's a bit like criticizing the potential for computers in 1959 because that newly deployed integrated circuit only does very simple logic gates. Cognitive architectures will improve with time.
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by maaku 11y ago
Do you trust your government?
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by maaku 11y ago
Bitcoin?
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by maaku 11y ago
We are delving into the realm of philosophy of the mind, and even epistemology, but what makes you think even human beings have what you call "agency" (which I think you are using as a stand-in for free-will)? Common-sensical free
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by maaku 11y ago
Okay. It was arrogant of Alexander the Great to think he could conquer Persia. It was arrogant of Kennedy/NASA to think they could go to the Moon within a decade. What's your point?
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by maaku 11y ago
The field of artificial general intelligence does exist. AI risk people for the most part aren't concerned over the latest machine learning buzz, but rather the potential of an AGI.
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by maaku 11y ago
Are you being flippant, or are you actually going somewhere with that?
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by maaku 11y ago
You are free to read the code and see for yourself.
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by maaku 11y ago
Oh I understand mining economics quite well. The comment I was responding to however claims that some people will continue to mine at a loss after the subsidy is negligible. However that assumes that people would be willing lose hundreds of
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by maaku 11y ago
I'm a physicist so naturally I do all back-of-the-envelope calculations to one-significant figure with rounding at each step. :) My own estimation is between $400k per day (hard lower bound) and $800k per day depending on assumptions a
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by maaku 11y ago
> And assuming it would fear anything is not anthropomorphizing at all? :) It's anthropomorphic language, yes, which is clumsy of me, especially given the context. What I meant is it would identify a category of risks, and then tak
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by maaku 11y ago
I believe you are anthropomorphizing too much. On what basis would it update its goals? What is the reason it would do so, and why does that reason make sense in the context of it's prior goals? More likely I think it mift learn from B

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