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by tdaltonc 10y ago
> There have been many solutions proposed to smart contract safety, ranging from better development environments to better programming languages to formal verification and symbolic execution . . . Why is 'human arbitration as a last
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I can't help but think about the way that Nick Bostrom outlines the AI control problem when I read "differences between implementation and intent." Maybe smart contracts (and automated mediation) is a good place to start cutt
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Am I correct in thinking that a smart contract has to be open source? Because there might be good reasons to keep the arbitration oracle's source code secret.
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Whether the random number is pulled before the hearing (picking just 1 judge instead of 3) or after (by picking one vote token at random) seems the same to me.
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Business wants a reliable and predictable legal system. They don't care that the judge has a pulse. If the machine looses it and starts making terrible decisions, people would just start using a different arbitration group. You could p
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I mean a "concept of precedent by which past decisions under similar fact patterns are used to inform decisions regarding new fact patterns." Without the need for territorial jurisdiction there will be many competing (but still di
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Yep. This is what I meant. I'd add that there could be many competing common law lineages and that contractees would selecting one when they draw up a contract.
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For example: either party to this contract submit a signed request for arbitration within the escrow period of this contacts then 1) a panel of 3 arbiters from the New Atlantis Common Law Arbitration Group will be selected at random. 2) 50-
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I'll make a prediction about where this is going longterm. Smart contracts will take off despite their rigidity but we will start writing them to include common law arbitration protocols. The arbiters will initially be 1 or more human
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Smarter people then I have said that this message is not validly signed: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oo1io/an_open_le... Though the view it expresses (but not the legal gibberish) is stil
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It looks like this is a typo. The question is, "does that matter?" It seems to me that either the code means what it says, or it doesn't. If a cabal of humans are able to overrule the machines, then what is the point of Ether
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I don't think that there was any pressure to deeply formalize contrasts before this because even if you did, there would still be recourse to a human judge (not just a compiler). If one party didn't like the strict reading they co
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As I understand it: The goal of the fork is to freeze the DAO account starting just before the 'split' drain (at the blockchain level). And then figure out a long term solution (possibly using another fork to return all ETH to the
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Any one who agree with the narrative outlined in Flash Boys (which I do), thinks that HFT is basically a drain on the economy. It doesn't help allocate capital more efficiently or provide any liquidity when it's actually needed. I
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Have they written about their experience with Holacracy?
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If they thought that Brexit would have a big impact on their business, they could just wait a couple weeks to announce anything.
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Awww ok. Ya, "a commodities market for pot" makes a lot of sense. They're vital to a functioning of any modern agricultural industry.
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I'm struggling with the "stock exchange" metaphor. Does it mean something other then "marketplace"?
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Behavior Design Part 1: Habit Design(medium.com)
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Apple launches iMessage Apps so third-party devs can join your convos(techcrunch.com)
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A Post-Human World Is Coming. Design Has Never Mattered More(fastcodesign.com)
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On your final point: Totally reasonable question. It's one of the first ones we asked ourselves (no one wants to work on a random-number-generator-as-a-service). We've seen simple reinforcement schedules increase average engagemen
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Right you are! This can't be bruit forced. We use brain wiring model and behavioral models to figure out when/how to reward users. We also run a lot of experiments when we have hunches about ways to improve the system.
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Obviously, I don't think that our product is subversive. I think that there is a moral imperative for our product. A huge percent of the world's human suffering stems from peoples' inability to do the 'simple' behav
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I totally agree. If you're in to BNW I'd recommend Huxley's little known follow up 'Island'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel) He shows that all the same technologies that the
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Show HN: Dopamine API – Turn any app into a habit(usedopamine.com)
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This is a very un-apple way to announce major changes.
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I downloaded the FoxNews app to watch a presidential debate (must have been about a year ago) and I was shocked to see them doing that. The question was something like "Do you love this app?," the 'yes' button linked dir
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As a neuroscientist, this makes me feel better about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11843376
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I'd love to hear from someone who knows more about this than I: How well do we 'understand' modern chips? I know that computers play a large hand in chip design. How well do the humans who specialize is chip design 'unde

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