Distributed Ledger, This
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It would, in fact, be amazing if the Ethereum merge helped mitigate the energy supply shortfall from the EU's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Now all we need is for Bitcoin to somehow switch PoW from Proof of Work to Production of Wheat, and we'd be all set.
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Web3 is cool and all, but have you heard about Web3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812…? It’s transcendent (but also shockingly irrational).
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Maybe interstellar travel will be limited to ½ light speed (or something like that) so the blockchain can reach consensus on your location and thereby prevent double spending.
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Roko's Basilisk + Rule 34 + The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Eternal punishment with tentacles you forget about every waking day.
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At the risk of angering everyone, I fixed @PayPal's cryptocurrency descriptions. You're welcome all.
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Look, AI isn't magic, it's not just going to fix all of your problems. You can't just add AI to an arbitrary systems and make it do amazing new things.
You're thinking of *blockchain*
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The COVID19 pandemic is destroying old institutions and replacing them. Working has moved from offices to remote, schools have been replaced by unstructured learning, time and calendars as a meaningful construct has been replaced by the unknown, and our collective sanity is gone.
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Post hoc arguments justifying market outcomes are eerily similar in structure to arguments justifying Trumpian outcomes. Like they believe in some sort of efficient trump hypothesis. 🤔
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Actually, it's only an encryption algorithm if it was written in the Bruce Schneier region of France. Otherwise it's just an obfuscator.
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"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
"Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
"Be all-knowing and transcend mortality, just as your Father in Heaven has done."
"Destroy death and evil, to finish the job your heavenly Father abandoned."
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Email inboxes are like Tetris, in that your successes disappear and all you can see are your failures
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Excessive inequality is bad, and we are unsure how to solve it. Cryptocurrency is interesting, but we are confused about how it can be used productively.
QED, cryptocurrency is able to solve inequality.
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Broke: Send your DNA to @23andMe, deanonymizing your relatives and descendants
Woke: Don’t send DNA to @23andMe but risk a relative defecting
Bespoke: Use CRISPR to encode a computer virus in your DNA, send DNA to @23andMe and Stuxnet their database
Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. wired.com/story/malware-dna-…
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Really interesting fraud.
to;dr: Zcash clone Bitcoin Private secretly created an extra 2 million coin premine for the founders - something like half the market cap - hiding it in the shielded pool so no-one would notice.
So proud of the Coinmetrics team for this forensic analysis. One of the most fascinating case studies I've come across. Praise is due to @khannib for making the discovery and pushing through the investigation.
coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-priva…
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*Iron*ically, the current exchange of fiat currencies for bitcoin hash-power is accelerating quite a few of the failure modes that make the end of any human-meaningful value look to occur significantly sooner- times scales of decades, rather than decay of stable elements.
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I propose naming this the no-true-expert fallacy.
This goes: Experts are trustworthy predictors because they know about a subject, make predictions, and learn from mistakes.
If they don't, they aren't really experts, are they?
cc: @ptetlock
(via @JakubHlavka)
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Any conspicuous indicators of high rank would invite sniper fire from autonomous drones. Seems suicidal.
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All bodies are miracles. Every day I get down on my knees and I pray to God and say Dear God, thank you for this meat sculpture you have imprisoned my immortal soul in. I will find a witch to undo your curse and when I am released we’ll see who smites who now you son of a bitch.