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All of the sneering intellectuals are the ones buying the iPhones and ordering everything through Amazon Prime. How many high-minded Atlantic articles did you read on your iPad Pro today while waiting for your Tesla to charge? Lenin was right - the intellectual class is parasitic and must be eliminated for true progress.
FTFY... and Lenin :)
Forget competition... What about market-wide transparent collaboration?
What we need is a revolution in how people think about complex systems. People nowadays throw ideas around thinking they have a good understanding of how systems operate or should operate, when in fact most are clueless and fail to realize their ignorance. Society, economy, biological organisms, climate, cognition, etc are all complex systems, and no single person can claim to understand how they work, or the types o…
I agree that people generally should realize that their broad viewpoints on subjects that they are not familiar with are in a different category from those that they are very familiar with or those that are about specific situations. I disagree that the issue is just that these systems are too complex to understand on any level or that we can avoid having worldviews that encompass these subjects. I mean we can just a…
When you are just another commenter on the Internet, your opinion just doesn't matter that much. It can be hard to get used to that.
Instead of just sharing our outputs, we need to share inputs. What did you read or experience?
All of the sneering intellectuals are the ones buying the iPhones and ordering everything through Amazon Prime. How many high-minded Atlantic articles did you read on your iPad Pro today while waiting for your Tesla to charge? Lenin was right - the intellectual class is parasitic and must be eliminated for true progress.
What we need is a revolution in how people think about complex systems. People nowadays throw ideas around thinking they have a good understanding of how systems operate or should operate, when in fact most are clueless and fail to realize their ignorance. Society, economy, biological organisms, climate, cognition, etc are all complex systems, and no single person can claim to understand how they work, or the types o…
I agree that people generally should realize that their broad viewpoints on subjects that they are not familiar with are in a different category from those that they are very familiar with or those that are about specific situations. I disagree that the issue is just that these systems are too complex to understand on any level or that we can avoid having worldviews that encompass these subjects. I mean we can just a…
Sure, we all have world views. When it comes to predictive power however, some world views are superior to others. At the end of the day, and at the level of detail we're currently capable of understanding reality, all of our models are wrong, but some are useful, hence why we keep pushing the process of scientific method, even though it has its limitations.
By acknowledging that something is complex, we can recognize we are limited in our ability to understand it – at least for now – which in turn leads us to question our current views and seek to discover and adopt better models, with even more predictive power.
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Behemoths like Amazon are taking a flamethrower to complexity already. Want practically anything? Just click and the day after tomorrow it magically appears at your door. Google, Amazon, Apple...they are reducing our IQs by simplifying our lives to the point of stupefaction.
Have they? Go to Amazon and search, say, for "scissors". Which one would you buy?
This is one of those really tough areas where the problems are so significant and comprehensive that the approach people want to take immediately gets into their worldview and belief system. And no one readily changes their worldview, so its difficult to have productive discussions about such things. Nevertheless I will state my worldview and hopefully mention a few specifics that might be anchor points for an attemp…
Hilarious. What a desperate attempt to pump ETH by some poor bagholder.
Ethereum doesn't exactly have the best track record of being a truly "decentralized" cryptocurrency, does it?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Behemoths like Amazon are taking a flamethrower to complexity already. Want practically anything? Just click and the day after tomorrow it magically appears at your door. Google, Amazon, Apple...they are reducing our IQs by simplifying our lives to the point of stupefaction.
Have they? Go to Amazon and search, say, for "scissors". Which one would you buy?
I'm not seeing the problem here?
This is one of those really tough areas where the problems are so significant and comprehensive that the approach people want to take immediately gets into their worldview and belief system. And no one readily changes their worldview, so its difficult to have productive discussions about such things. Nevertheless I will state my worldview and hopefully mention a few specifics that might be anchor points for an attemp…
Shameless plug: I wrote a blog post a while ago using your premise to argue why decentralized technologies wouldn't be useful to society: https://www.notion.so/Yet-Another-Rant-About-Blockchains-ece...
But even when there is a notion of competition you say that to avoid the traps left around by an imperfect (perhaps unavoidably) system of incentives, coordination is necessary, questioning the need for a decentralized system in the first place. But is that really so bad/superfluous? What if the coordination necessary to make a decentralized system work led more easily to a desirable and elastic result than something crafted by hand. Again, maybe it's too abstract, but I picture a decentralized governance system where members would have to coordinate to achieve a proper equilibrium. For example the biggest hurdle to fighting lobbyism effectively isn't coordination from competing interests, it's the lack of resources. Wouldn't a decentralized system negate the power of money, networking, services, preferential treatment (and even blackmail) even if it still ended up causing/requiring coordination?