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mircea_popescu: this identity, which may be me unless i deny it, proposes he will sign a contract so and so.
mircea_popescu: "we were going to make it, so i told the wife, go ahead and get started, i'ma grab a paper"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the price for this, of course, is immutability :)
mircea_popescu: just saying, kind of an engineering convention. no point in seeing too much metaphysics behind it
mircea_popescu: yes, well, this is more a function of louis than anything.
mircea_popescu: decimation did you actually read the whole discussion ?
mircea_popescu: i might be especially thick, but i don't actually understand what decimation is saying.
mircea_popescu: (i mean, as opposed to soft. it's not like twitter, follow X. it's the opposite, "send to X")
mircea_popescu: artifexd nevertheless, since output is always encrypted to a key,
mircea_popescu: you don't really need to hear anything back from anyone.
mircea_popescu: artifexd you will notice the spec is broadcast-oriented.
mircea_popescu: im not entirely sure it is actually to any purpose important.
mircea_popescu: if we were onm a purely broadcast network, it'd work right
mircea_popescu: so im guessing this is going to be forced by the medium.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, connections on the internet don't work unilaterally.
mircea_popescu: this part is finnicky. it shouldn't, ideally, but i don't see how it could be done.
mircea_popescu: i must say, incidentally, i thoroughly enjoyed this discussion.
mircea_popescu: which is how humanity managed to inch its way to this sad time when it's about to kill itself a thousand different ways
mircea_popescu: this is specifically because, historically, the individual is more important than the group
mircea_popescu: this is not some sort of random contrivance of boredom.
mircea_popescu: so the fundamental statement is "the group is more important than the individual"
mircea_popescu: wheras as proposed, gossipd makes the enemy outright impossible.
mircea_popescu: it is fundamentally broken and will never work exactly because it simply presumes the adversary wins.
mircea_popescu: the tor bs is an attempt to "fix" in implementation problems to whose existence it not merely contributes, but moore! whose existence it actually postulates.
mircea_popescu: this is paid for, somewhere, by someone. who is paying but me ? even if i can't show where it leeches me, it does. why should i ?
mircea_popescu: more importantly, hitler IS a lot more in that than he would be in this.
mircea_popescu: for all he knows, they're all in cahoots, sending him lulz.
mircea_popescu: artifexd you might discover it hurts you, much like the low level usg employee who thinks the fed helps him would soon discover his lot would be better without that bit.
mircea_popescu: well yes. all the signed chats of everyone = everything. absolutely as 1 = 1.
mircea_popescu: and whence and wherefore should he have anything but nothing ?
mircea_popescu: how is giving the bum EVERYTHING lowering him in any sense ?
mircea_popescu: in both cases, we are discussing user Panopticon, who sees all and says nothing. now, in spec as is, it is true that user P will know... nothing. correct ? whereas in your proposed spec, he would know... everything. correct ?
mircea_popescu: ok, let's work a different way. let us compare two scenarios.
mircea_popescu: let's go the other way. why do you think it would so lower them ?
mircea_popescu: i think i explained it half a dozen different ways, to exhaustion, but am at a loss as to why what seems obvious is not communicating itself.
mircea_popescu: the same relation as between you and me, in the scenario.
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, elevating the source to the rank of a connect.
mircea_popescu: that, it does. but it makes no representation they are from me.