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Interesting to watch all the bitter fighting over control of the narrative. I feel like the comment threads all over the internet are a more interesting story than the story itself…

Unless they've stolen the goods they're using, they're interacting with civilization/capitalism on its own terms. What more can you ask?

its related to the discussion inasmuch as the parent comment is related to the discussion.

...meanwhile in reality: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-fing...

How would you even know if you did? What would you have to see or experience about reality or yourself to make you change your mind? How can you know that you haven't already exper…

Things without boundaries will eventually cease to be things. Anti-discrimination laws remove many effective ways for communities to form boundaries around themselves. A lot of ter…

How does that make it not a problem for Germany? Are you talking about Germany the landmass? Germany the state? Germany the nation or the ethnicity? Cause, I mean, sure its no prob…

Stockholm syndrome: the secret to happiness ;P

Make things. Don't engage in primate coalition building, that never helps. Having descended from a long line of hominids you should be more suspicious of your brain when it comes u…

this perhaps? http://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1

A lot of the stuff on the cypherpunks was added fairly recently I believe. At least, I don't remember those sections being there the last time I read it. Gwern has an interesting a…

Relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/us/politics/01cyber.html

You should check out Robin Hanson's idea of 'futarchy' here: http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.pdf