The process of creating addictive things is accelerating, the same acceleration that
increases progress on the things we wan to want is increasing with things we dont want to
want.
”which means increasing numbers of things we like will be transformed into things we like
too much”
These two senses will grow further apart
”One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is
the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of
machinery: what works best."
"We’ll increasingly be defined by what we say no to”
Fairly moving image of child going off to concentration camp
”the mere existence of this longest block-chain is proof that the majority of generals
(over 50%) were involved in its creation.”
Each node in the blockchain as a general that wants to know if we have consensus on the
latest transaction.
Im a bit confused. So, there is no inherent correct plan at the start,
There is agreement that the plan that has spent the most time in circulation is the agreed
plan (because more generals have worked on it (this is the only way to increase the
likelihood of solving the problem, one general can’t just work extra hard, as long as
compute resources are dispersed))
Im getting my concepts muddle up here. What is the goal?
How can we solve the consensus problem with lack of trust between individuals? There
is no way to verify that everyone has heard the initial plan.
What we are saying now is, every time you get a plan, do some work on it.
The earth spins at roughly 460 meters per second. So if the world stopped spinning, I would be
moving at that speed into the nearest wall.
Reading on the toilet, thought I got a nice grasp of DNA as being a general information
machine and its adaption, being its knowledge. Knowledge in how to be something. Which is
fragile to change, or in other words its highly adapted to its use case.
The goal of the cypher punks was to have a distributed system act as one system. This could be
viewed as another form of consensus, so despite the individual nodes the system will operate
with integrity.
In the spam case, we could verify that a certain amount of work has been done to send a
message, as a spammer couldn’t possibly be sending out 1000 of messages to 1000 of
accounts
Views on how China sees the western classics and how they are kind of manipulating them
for their own needs. It interesting how, just from reading The Story of China where
the historian manipulates for the current leader is still in play. To be fair I think this
is less likely in the US (although still prevalent)
Also I should look at old testament translations and read shadi’s Aeneid. It seems interesting
how she might portray the female characters.
I really think it would make sense to learn some mandarin
May 20th, 2021 Could I use remarkable to sync notes with this?
May 20th, 2021productivity Is Roam too expensive?simple notes Jess Martin. Ah man Roam would
be great if it wasn’t so expensive. I think my thinking is messy.
Think about workflow. What does my work activity look like vs my interests, how do they work
in tandem.