[FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

[Marcus Daniels]

Back in the Usenet days, people would prefix remarks like that as "Ob complexity"  to pacify the relevant people.

One example in the news of adaptive criminality are churches that give sanctuary to individuals now facing deportation.   Ob buzzword:   These agents may be symmetry breaking!

Marcus

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> On May 24, 2017, at 8:51 AM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well sure, TANSTAAFL.  But, especially given Owen's (and apparently Stephen's) loaded question "What is complexity?", to write it all off as "tools don't imply political motives" is, itself, a loaded answer.  We have overwhelming evidence that complexity is bound up with robustness through mechanisms for phenomena like scale-free, fractal, far from equilibrium, etc.  And that clearly implies that an earnest application of a tool (from hammers to blockchains), one that actually tries to solve problems rather than extract wealth for a sub-group, should make an attempt to reify those phenomena.
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> So, as I suggested in the exploit post: "get ready for blockchain" also means "get ready for exploitative tactics with and around blockchain tech."  That article Tom posted focused exclusively on the happy-go-lucky, hyperbolic, utopian dream, ignoring the nightmare that lurks beneath.
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>> On 05/23/2017 02:01 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> The concept of a secure distributed ledger (e.g. blockchain) doesn't itself really imply a political motive.   
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> ☣ glen
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