skilesare

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by skilesare 9y ago
Yes, Lila is great. I think there is a lot there if you are looking to make some meaning out of a seemingly random world.
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by skilesare 9y ago
I have a modest proposal that is a kind of earned basic income. Would love comments and feedback. Http://skilesare.github.com/immortality Its a long term solution and doesn't fix the immediate problems.
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by skilesare 9y ago
Both Alexander and Pirsig are great and I think they have a lot of crossover. I actually just released my book this week that mashes their two ideas together. It is with sadness that I learned of his passing today and a bit ironic that the
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by skilesare 10y ago
If you like that stuff, check out Alexander's Nature of Order. The books are expensive, but are also beautiful books, and the content is great as well.
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by skilesare 10y ago
The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander (also The Timeless Way of Building) Lila by Pirsig (If you've read ZMM and left Lila unread you've left a lot on the table) The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutch Antifragile by Tale
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by skilesare 10y ago
One might think that that god leaves a lot to be desired and that god is probably a tool of a god.
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by skilesare 10y ago
It isn't enough to just have UI. You. You need a driver for financing as well. It is all well and good to be able to leave a job to start something new, but if you can't finance that thing you just have a bunch of people sitting a
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by skilesare 10y ago
I'm working on the problem at catallax.info. My book should be out soon. I'm going to be looking for lots of input and collaboration.
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by skilesare 10y ago
You just made my heart happy. I've been hoping for an updated and backwards compatible coffeescript update for a while. Glad to see it is coming along.
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by skilesare 10y ago
I'm trying. http://catallax.info Real life keeps getting int he way.
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by skilesare 10y ago
Yes. Depends on what you mean by close though.
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by skilesare 10y ago
This would be nice, but actually getting those services set up is currently opaque. I have a service request in asking how to actually tie one of these instances to a load balancer and it is just sitting there unanswered.
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by skilesare 10y ago
First, we have some of the cheapest housing in the US. Second, the law will Have to change in the next 10 years. Third, if we do it right, Houston can become the city with the most green space in the country if we require that 1/2 of a
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by skilesare 10y ago
I'll raise you Houston, TX.
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by skilesare 10y ago
We are using electron with nice results. It is great if you already have a stable of js devs and you need to do something with the file system and or network access. We basically have electron load in our basic tool and then have shims that
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by skilesare 10y ago
People have already mentioned Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language and Timeless Way, but I'll note that he has further distilled those ideas in his The Nature of Order Series: http://amzn.to/2b4XYf5 1. Levels
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by skilesare 10y ago
The reductionist falacy. It is ignoring the fact that the constituent systrms, while built on the operations of subsystems, evolved specifically to overcome the behavior of those sub systems.
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by skilesare 10y ago
This is amazing. Also, you need a new job, your resourcefulness is being wasted.
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by skilesare 11y ago
If this thing looks even remotely like a bolt I'll be mashing the refund button. I'm expecting something more like a Nissan Maxima (S) -> Nissan Altima (3) not Cadillac -> Golf Cart.
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by skilesare 11y ago
A better question to pose might be should we tell alphago what nationality a player is.
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by skilesare 11y ago
Because we want a tesla?
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by skilesare 11y ago
This is a great summary. All value is future value and the only real way to 'store value' is to pump water uphill(or equivalent). I've tried to address amny of the authors points with http://Catallax.info -Rather
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by skilesare 11y ago
Thanks for the recommendations.
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by skilesare 11y ago
I've proposed a number of things at http://catallax.info . It boils down to changing incentives. We are currently incentivised to get the most for our dollars in the present. When you change the incentive to allow for mor
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by skilesare 11y ago
Timeless way of building is right there where I thought it would be.
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Hacking Paul Graham’s Vision of the Future with Hypercatallaxian Economics(medium.com)
3 points by skilesare 11y ago|3 comments
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by skilesare 11y ago
If you want both Liberty and Community to emerge as the dominant platform, you are going to have to explore other avenues than legislating it or convincing people of it. You are going to have to re-align incentives. It is going to have to
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by skilesare 11y ago
1. One of the core concepts is 'Everyone is a bank'. The system has built in loan pooling complete with a marketplace. http://catallax.info/everyone-is-a-bank/ Instead of being paid interest, you receive
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by skilesare 11y ago
Don't miss A story of Robinson Crusoe chapter. Great parable.
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by skilesare 11y ago
Sure, and this provides the detergent maker more capital to create the next great detergent...which devalues the detergent you have...so only up to a point. In general it would be better to loan out your cash at a 0% rate of interest then t

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