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mircea_popescu: anyway, i hope taaki doesn't end up sending intenret hitmen to kill me or something
mircea_popescu: already good software is gpg based as a matter of course. so what if microsoft doesn't want to sign ?
mircea_popescu: so now trust is created that's not wot-based. so in a sense old people are attacking the wot through being... stupid.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that people interact with an entity calling itself at&t and using a non-gribble method of authing.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves lol i didn't click. i guess he's a slow reader.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the chronicles didn't work that fucking well, either.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony a naming system can be secure, memorable and global
mircea_popescu: (and the fact good names aren't being squatted to fuck amazes me, and it is a testament to the fundamental economic ineptitude of geeks)
mircea_popescu: this would be fucking ideal, but unfortunately it'd yield fragmentation.
mircea_popescu: i'm making urmom a better gazelle than the wot ever was, bish.
mircea_popescu: the truth being that this shit's so bleedin' advanced ... we are without words.
mircea_popescu: like the web is the set of websites, not the set of human knowledge
mircea_popescu: the trouble is that wot is a horrible name, as it's not OF TRUST in the obvious sense, but in the other one. and it'd seem to discuss the actual web, rather than its notation.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well... so maybe the definition is broken you know ?
mircea_popescu: suppose pirate came back and went ;;rate ThickAsThieves 6 trusted guy helped me launder money
mircea_popescu: punishment is any action upon an agent that happens irrespective of the will of that agent
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves everything that moves has some economic part
mircea_popescu: anyway, a "gazette" is this ancient term of "where all the matters of record are published"
mircea_popescu: this theory is useful in design : how to make better mmorpgs.
mircea_popescu: so i put a note on a guy's "officer notesd" place that hey, you took all our x runes wtf
mircea_popescu: i CREATED IT because we have an open guild bank where anyone can take out a stack, but you're not supposed to take out the WHOLE stack of things you can use 1-2 of
mircea_popescu: it kinda has it, very rudimentarily, as the kick log say.
mircea_popescu: most of the debate dealing with strictly uneconomic matters.
mircea_popescu: not to mention the economization of politics, whereby politics are resisted or promoted on alleged economic grounds.
mircea_popescu: there's been a trend to economize welfare, and that just muddies up everything
mircea_popescu: yeah. the objection there is not so different from tlp's objection that medicalisation of welfare.
mircea_popescu: suddenly reality is actionable, which is what makes great science.
mircea_popescu: the rest is probably emotional ? or political ? or whatever the fuck else.
mircea_popescu: say, the "problem" of x. well... how mcuh of it actually is economical ? that much should be resolved economically.
mircea_popescu: and generally, it's a knife. it allows to cleave reality and the problems of reality into easier to manage bits.
mircea_popescu: for instance, what does qc do ? does it attack the forum ?
mircea_popescu: well we apply it to understand what we do and do not understand better, and formalise both.
mircea_popescu: a corporation is like a personified feud. it can even lay dormant.
mircea_popescu: if you shoot all the board of X corp, what of it ? they just hire new ones.
mircea_popescu: i know what i said, what i don't follow is what you said.
mircea_popescu: a more absolute gift of power could scarcely be devised. "even in hell, they with this staff wield power" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is the best thing you could possibly be doing with your time, not last on the list because even should it put you in prison, it will probably make you a ruler there, too.
mircea_popescu: and from unrelated news : "Nothing makes you more powerful inside the joint than a strong grounding in currency arbitrage."
mircea_popescu: if the contest is running, and it dun matter who's running, he still has to do 100 meters, be it obama or goldstein,
mircea_popescu: fairness is not a guarantee of equal resuts, even if you promise equal effort.
mircea_popescu: fairness in this context may not be what you think when you say the word.
mircea_popescu: a fair contest is a contest which does not distinguish between participants.
mircea_popescu: the problem of natural persons vs legal persons is that natural persons have constraints legal persons do not.