scalio

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by scalio 10y ago
Benet said in a talk that they're working on making e-commerce work in distributed systems. Ethereum for instance does exactly that.
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by scalio 10y ago
Parents are more important than schools, because things the parents fuck up in their kids' education are nearly impossible for the school to reverse. The reverse isn't true, though. The disenchantment with education a child experi
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by scalio 10y ago
They certainly could do good, theoretically. Problem is their business model, because manipulating people doesn't fall under "doing good". As long as they make profit by selling people, they're the opposite of good bec
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by scalio 10y ago
Why do autistic people have to go extinct? Can't we support them in this wealthy day and age? Couldn't great cognitive tools lie beneath autism and other supposed illnesses? In my experience, "normal" people are the most
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by scalio 10y ago
Less, because the choices you would be offered would be limited compared to the messy free-for-all that is natural evolution.
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by scalio 10y ago
The author has a point. As long as we don't understand how we're built and functioning, modifying our code is a bad idea. Learning by doing is only applicable when the thing in question is expendable, which is definitely not the c
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by scalio 10y ago
I think a lot of fear is rightly grounded in history: it's clear that this much power in very few hands turns to shit at some point. Facebook may well be humanity's biggest concentration of power (knowledge being power). How do yo
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by scalio 10y ago
Why would the warlords, narcissists and sociopaths get rid of their own privacy? Zuckerberg seems very keen on preserving his...
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by scalio 10y ago
> What tradeoffs are worthwhile that ensure an overall positive experience? And still be a profitable business? Facebook is a business, and real life is not always profitable. When people interact with real life through facebook, they on
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The Matrix, Inverted(vimeo.com)
4 points by scalio 10y ago|0 comments
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by scalio 10y ago
Very nice. I don't know what my tipping point is, but I suspect we have long since overshot it. The only reason everything's so relatively peaceful is because of the lack of transparency. We only ever hear what's going wrong
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by scalio 10y ago
Might work for a while until enough incidents pass unnoticed (which will happen given the mass). The police is a very specific group of people that's already under massive scrutiny.
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by scalio 10y ago
Huh, do you think all the status-quo-preserving douchebags will want to live by themselves? That's no fun, is it? Then again, the internet is young. Maybe such segregation would work, but I'm not a fan of the idea. I'd rather
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by scalio 10y ago
Oh of course, but do you have any practical suggestions? I fear the whole thing needs to be ripped apart to have any chance of actual change as opposed to the less-than-superficial "yeah that's a problem, gotta do something about
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by scalio 10y ago
In theory, yes. The problem is that many government officials act to further corporations' objectives for example by enacting laws enabling or making shady activities easier.
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by scalio 10y ago
Thinking of corporations in terms of its employees means said employees have to take responsibility for their products. I'm all for it. The same can be applied to governments (though I believe it's less of a problem than with corp
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by scalio 10y ago
That's some idyllic thinking, but I agree such interoperability would be awesome. However, I don't see how it could be realized with current closed ecosystems. Seems like this would almost require open software...
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by scalio 10y ago
http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalro... is a nice text about the rival/non-rival nature of things.
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by scalio 10y ago
You've hit the nail on the head. Some jobs come from unnecessary complexity in the system (civil servants, accounting people); some jobs exist because they're too complicated for machines (for now); some are just plainly unneeded
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by scalio 10y ago
So what are suggesting for when the vast majority of job sectors vanish? "Everybody relax and wait for the coffin?" When there's nothing to do anymore in the traditional sense, we receive an opportunity: millions, possibly bi
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by scalio 10y ago
What you want is people to take responsibility for their actions. That's not gonna happen anytime soon.
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by scalio 10y ago
I would tend to agree in theory. Data is a very valuable thing that is necessary to improve beyond a certain point. Complete, unrestricted transparency of every facet of everything gives the data-wielders (humanity) unprecedented insight. I
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by scalio 10y ago
Well, save some immense breakthrough, we won't detect anything, that's for sure. That's why it's so important to live, work, educate in a sustainable fashion ;) . Let's face it, we don't know a whole lot abou
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by scalio 10y ago
The confidence comes from two things: proportional representation and direct democracy. The people vote about the tiniest of issues (should the sound-proofing be extended on this bit of highway?), which gives a feeling of direct power. It&#
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by scalio 10y ago
I think the instability you're describing is only a result of human nature: aggression is by far the most universally motivating factor because everybody can get behind some camp and feel righteous. This means people can get enormously
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by scalio 10y ago
Yes, should have clarified, obviously hardware wasn't built for free. Regarding the sweepiness of my statement: I feel like digital freedom would be in a much, much deeper hole if it weren't for the loads of FOSS software running
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by scalio 10y ago
The internet's infrastructure is a good example of relatively rich people doing good for everybody. Our digital world is built on tech developed largely for free by people rich enough to be able to afford this unpaid labour. Nobody eve
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by scalio 10y ago
Tell me again how finding 10B to go to Mars is impossible? This is a satirical comment, trying to make a point: Depending on the context, the same amount of money can be considered anything from huge to tiny. It seems ridiculous to me that
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by scalio 10y ago
Thank you for that link, and for changing my view on the subject. The thing about capitalism, though, is that it's an apparently reliable way of doing things in such situations. Apart from the odd crisis, it has worked fabulously for t
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by scalio 10y ago
China disagrees. They're still growing, in spite of a bloody ruthless birth control system (though I seem to remember that they've loosened it a bit, not sure). Also, the Romans died out because they fell into decadence, which is

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