mshumi

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by mshumi 6y ago
One has to wonder what legal frauds, asset grabs, and impersonations have transpired that were never discovered. Some perspective on this is the story of Alves dos Reis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alves_dos_Reis ) wh
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by mshumi 6y ago
Variable reward, drama, and incentives; Being promoted by a source of credibility helps as well. Why do you want to go viral? What are you optimizing for? Is the desire 'to go viral' a proxy for perhaps some other unfulfilled need
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by mshumi 6y ago
Bitcoin fork (maintaining BTC balances) onto Algorand consensus, call it algoBTC, would solve 2/3 of these issues. Scalable as money and environmentally friendly pure proof of stake. The greed/scam aspect is human nature and the a
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by mshumi 6y ago
That was a very good read. Thanks for linking that!
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by mshumi 6y ago
Goodhart's law in action. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Nothing more, nothing less
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by mshumi 6y ago
So they should be free to be regulated as a publisher despite claiming they are a platform
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by mshumi 6y ago
This is probably closer to the truth. It's not a coincidence that Japan was the first developed country to experience stagflation and is experiencing these problems.
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by mshumi 6y ago
Welcome to the everything bubble. We now have to choose whether people hurt in nominal or real terms. I think we will collectively decide to hurt real wealth rather than nominal wealth. All the two-sided obligations work out better that way
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by mshumi 6y ago
Awesome! I've seen hackathon implementations of this idea, but yours is the best I've found so far. I'm curious about automatic activity recognition. Will be interesting to train a classifier on head and hand pose to count si