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Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception(medium.com)
2 points by zby 8y ago|0 comments
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by zby 8y ago
The strange thing about this is that there is no visible effect on the price of BTG. It is going down true - but most crypto go down now - and when you look at the chart you would not guess that there was such a dramatic event: https:&#x2F
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by zby 8y ago
For anyone who hasn't read the article - I wish Tether was investigated too - but this article is not about that: "The illicit tactics that the Justice Department is looking into include spoofing and wash trading"
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by zby 8y ago
"Even if Kaspersky were spying for the Russians, they won't give a damn about your porn, tax cheating, affairs, your padding of expense reports, or whatever they find on your computer" How can you be so sure about that? You n
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by zby 8y ago
I like the idea that mental models are the most condensed form of knowledge. But I don't quite agree with the premise that there is some universal list that will be equally useful for everyone. Investors like Charlie Munger need to hav
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by zby 8y ago
"A mental model is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world. It is a representation of the surrounding world, the relationships between its various parts and a person's intuitive
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by zby 8y ago
Early stage is just not very well suited for dispersed ownership. The investors need to do a lot of work to dig up and verify the information and this only makes sense if they have big stakes in the company. This is a general problem with c
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by zby 8y ago
Store of value is a legitimate use case. How bitcoin is useful for that is debatable, but cryptocurrencies do have some advantages over precious metals. There should be a niche for 'internet gold' ( https://medium.com&#x
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by zby 8y ago
There is a paradox in it: if it was easy to tell them apart - there would be no place for the connoisseurs - but if you cannot tell the difference - then it does not matter which you are drinking.
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Memes That Kill: The Future of Information Warfare(cbinsights.com)
2 points by zby 8y ago|0 comments
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by zby 8y ago
It is a store of value. I would not call it an investment - because it does not really produce anything. It is like gold - but digital: https://medium.com/@zby/proof-of-work-8d8265def194 I don't think it is a very
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by zby 8y ago
Gold as a value store is kind of better tested in all circumstances. Some time ago I wrote an essay on proof of work and gold: https://medium.com/@zby/proof-of-work-8d8265def194
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by zby 8y ago
How the cost is divided between burned electricity, hardware and human labour does not make any difference. It is all value burned on 7 transactions per second.
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by zby 8y ago
Graeber has been pushing this for some time now - it is an interesting observation. In this particular article he does not even try to explain why this happens - but in other places he made silly theories about capitalist employers doing th
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by zby 8y ago
A note to the readers - the real article starts somewhere after the middle point - the whole first part is just rehashing all the information YC readers know by heart. The main thesis seems to be that framing the problem as health issue (as
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by zby 9y ago
What I really want in Linux is some way to kill apps when it gets low on memory and everything gets stuck. I know there is Magic SysRq Key - but I always forget about the keys and also it requires recompiling the kernel.
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by zby 9y ago
English is not very well suited for the Latin alphabet! Learning writing in English is much more difficult than in Polish for example despite the additional letters in Polish. Especially with vowels - come on: 'a' can mean 'æ
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by zby 9y ago
And Athens is about 35% of Greece :)
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by zby 9y ago
Yeah - that is how it works! Blockchain can be solution to anything - you just need the definition of blockchain to be broad enough. It is an empty signifier.
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by zby 9y ago
When I was still working as a programmer I noticed that many, maybe most, breakthroughs in my work I made at breaks - at lunches, tea breaks, waking to meetings, etc. I was stuck and not making any progress trying to work through the proble
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by zby 9y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003401/http://www.namesy... Hans Reiser had some good ideas. And by the way there is a good analogy with www - originally we had just the addresses (somehow hierarchic
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by zby 9y ago
The question is what is your platform? Does it require running your own server in your bedroom, hiring a virtual machine, or maybe even anything like hosted WordPress counts as yours, because you pay for it directly? And you know even if yo
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by zby 9y ago
Physicists became aware about the ethical implications of their work after the A bomb - with information science there will not be any such sharp censure - but the implications might be even more profound.
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by zby 9y ago
ICOs are mostly useless - they are great for the founders but useless for investors. For now there is the hype that delivers new and new greater fools - but that will eventually stop and ICOs will face the hard reality of not being a very g
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by zby 9y ago
Why do you think it was ludicurous? Admittedly I don't remember any detailed account of these events - but as I understand it Wright demonstrated that he can construct a message with Satoshi private keys. Most probably he used some tri
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by zby 9y ago
OK - it uses different notation where '=' is not the same as in maths. But that is kind of trivial. There are perfectly mathematical semantics of both functional and imperative languages.
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by zby 9y ago
The quoted text does not support your thesis - come on! It admits that C=R might be true - but argues that this is not enough.
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by zby 9y ago
This is an interesting argument - but it is based on the assumption that with the same money you buy the same security independently of how that security is implemented. That does not seem to be true. There is already an update that article
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by zby 9y ago
"Because mutation gives you tremendous flexibility ... Haskell on the other is using math to construct its patterns" - so mutation is somehow outside of math?
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by zby 9y ago
It is unrealistic now - but that will change. Also 'unrealistic' is quite different from 'not going at the heart of the problem'.

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