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Getting rid of patents would probably help. With stuff like phones there's probably plenty of options for mass production of open source hardware modules purchasable from electroni…

> Previously, you’d be able to go to a store and buy a thing without giving any information We can still do that, it's called paying with cash. Paper money is the people's money. >…

Break room and cafeterias can be bugged, company phones and email addresses can be bugged or monitored. With externally controlled neural implants I'm not sure if there is any mean…

I think the only long term solution is to establish or work for a cooperative which does not patent ideas or which only patents ideas defensively to protect the free use of ideas f…

If augmented reality leads to neural implants it can potentially lead to an even worse dystopia if the technology is not open source. Limited access to resources may result in the …

A more materialist approach would be to say that it is the artists and authors of such books which are influenced by cosmos and the three body problem is an error detection code fo…

Hopefully anyone with some understanding of projective geometry, analogy, cognitive science, and physics can grasp the overall system.

> Another layer of federated content publishing doesn't solve any problems. HTTP is a request-response rather than content broadcast or publish-subscribe protocol. Presumably you c…

Well this already happened and we're still using it, but it's called ARPAnet. Instead of building a hypertext website they could finance an ARPA-E program to develop new federated …

Eh, governments could probably take a supply-side approach and throw money at new ARPAnet protocols for developing federated content publishing networks to grow competing networked…

> then there is the weaker threshold where these theories rule in that they should be taken as serious explanations for the alleged “advanced technology” demonstrated by UAPs No, i…

If we are concerned with nuance, there's probably at least 2 different conservative arguments. There is the hyper-libertarian argument which says that if someone arrives at a hospi…

Price transparency regulations could also be used to implement public price controls or public fines on monopolies engaging in price discrimination. For instance if a provider bill…

With the proposal for continuously increasing maintenance fees on ownership it is necessary to establish some public mechanism for determining the relative value of patents upon wh…

> What can the USPTO do with the information, other than just not hand out patents in that area? They could require the IP holder to declare the price at which they were willing to…

Well suppose the valuation mechanism for determining the relative value of patents that the escalating fees were levied upon was implemented by requiring IP holders to declare the …

The question should be how do we eliminate unnecessary transaction costs and overheads associated with license negotiations, legal fees, and courts costs, and ensure new public inv…

> I'd think a more reasonable approach could be, you have a patent for 15 years (or whatever arbitrary number is reasonable) or until the patent holder makes some multiple dollar a…

> The first kind of magic, which we shall call “Human”, is driven by the desire to extend one's power over the world, while simultaneously minimizing one's dependence on the world …

> I think that there are not enough jobs at the moment for the western people. So we create them, and handout "fake" rewards for them. What nonsense is this? The purpose of work is…

> I would think the issue is we have to start with what are we solving for exactly? In order to avoid a civilization collapse we need to maximize net-product, the material surplus …

Classically political economy was the study of the accumulation and distribution of material wealth. The first part of this study involves figuring out how society produces a socia…

Well human labor is a somewhat renewable source of energy. And when people perform work for us it saves us the energy of performing the same work ourselves in the future. And when …

Ideally a system of credit based on proof of work is based on proof of productive work embodied in artifacts which competition can increase the supply of without restraint. A proof…