sweetbitter

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by sweetbitter 4y ago
> One of the points that Aurynn Shaw makes is that federation hampers the addition of protocol features because new features have to be agreed upon by all participants in the federated network. This adds friction to the evolution of prot
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
You are correct, the researchers just did not realize this.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
> Tor is now the largest network provider in Bitcoin; just about 55% of Bitcoin nodes were addressable only via Tor (as of March 2022). A malicious Tor exit node can modify or drop traffic. Tor's onion services are end-to-end encryp
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
I've bought them to rent VPS many times. They have their value, since they are effectively the ability to teleport cash (with similar ramifications as physical cash) from point A to point B.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
>Privacy is not something that can be controlled at the individual level when you're up against billion dollar budgets. Use FOSS, now the price of direct compromise rises above $0. Turn on NoScript? Whoops, there goes like 90% of we
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
I don't think anything could be better for cryptographic currencies than most of the speculators having their investments crushed.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
Hm, I am not quite sure I understand. Are you saying that people should not have the ability to withdraw their USD into cash either? Cryptographic currencies are exactly the same thing imo- they are not meant to replace trusted third partie
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
As opposed to what, science? That thing relying on the axiom that perception somehow lets us predict reality? No, science is nothing more than the arbitrary notion that a pattern perceived right 'now' will continue into the '
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
> This isn't a matter of narrow-minded computer scientists incapable of conceiving of emergent phenomena, it's the uninformed filling in the blank spaces in their mind with "here be dragons". Well first of all, an imp
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
Haha, perhaps. The only difference is that these fellows need not be threatened to realize their own passions.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
> The article gives a list 6 ways it could "defeat" humans, but doesn't bother explaining WHY an AI would do that. Why should an AI care about accumulating wealth or power? Because there are people who think it would be am
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
> The author misses an even scarier prospect - people will want to run such an AI. They will be absolutely giddy at the prospect of running such an AI and it won't be anything like a really smart human trapped in a computer. Exactly
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
If it's something that you think can be stopped, go ahead and try to stop it. Just know that you will be Open Sourced- even artificial general intelligence, when someday invented, will eventually have its design released in the clear.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
For some of us 'bad weather' is good weather, and vice versa. Especially so for children- who doesn't like the uplifting feeling brought by rain?
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
While it is easier to be mean online, it is also easier to be nice. On the internet I like to be very lighthearted and optimistic, and I find that many people IRL do not appreciate this. Also, you can be nice to other people by helping them
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
You don't need to run social media software for leisure. My phone is an expensive paperweight that remains off/home most of the time...
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
Pseudonymous rather than anonymous, generally. And it can work better than you'd think, depending on how you've met! One interesting facet of how internet relationships are formed is that certain phases of those friendships might
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
I wager that you are having some issues reading the quote that was presented to you, so let me elaborate: Traditionally, a shared cultural mythos- that is, the set of 'stories' that the society believes in and uses to bind themsel
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
Only if your friend group tolerates closed-source messaging. Discord in particular is very unfriendly to anonymization, requiring a phone number to sign up.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
I associate "crypto" with "low fees" and "strong sender anonymity" and "transaction privacy". Really, I view it, especially those like Monero, as humanitarian money- something to act as our digital ca
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
Musk recently said in an interview that Tesla is waiting for bitcoin to consistently use more than 50% renewable power.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
What books and/or papers could you recommend for learning all about this, distributed hash tables, cosign distance, reputation systems, the whole deal?
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
Trolls would need to avoid being too overtly inflammatory, lest they get blocked by kneejerk reaction. > What problem would it solve Well, we could have a bunch of discussion boards again, ones that aren't at the permanent whims of
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
Preventing SPAM requires a lot of subjectivity, so particular people who download certain sets of posts are more like to be senders. Perhaps retrieval of messages could be routed over something like I2P.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
The moderators' biases shape 4chan and which userbase it has, not the users' own subjective choices. Similar but not quite.
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by sweetbitter 4y ago
No, it isn't impossible at all. However, it would be very subjective- like that Freenet overlay software that eliminates SPAM and child pornography with ease, such a system would be more based on subjective webs of trust and optional l
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
The point of my comment was that, if [actor] is not using any pseudonym but is instead nameless, then there is almost no active way to pursue that actor, aside from its adversary running malware on every machine in the world and scanning th
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
No you don't seem to understand. I am saying that using a pseudonym is NOT helpful to anonymity. It only hurts your anonymity to use any common set of characteristics, like a name, timezone, linguistic quirks, etc. I am saying that eve
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
It's only that hard if the person in question is dumb enough to be using a pseudonym instead of opting for anonymity, since having a name opens up your attack surface and chance to fail. Hosting a site or some kind of infrastructure th
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by sweetbitter 5y ago
Hahaha that's very true! My bias against the front-ends of those services is showing. That still doesn't mean they don't need regulation though. To elaborate, there is a world of difference between some smaller forum/boa

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