kauffj
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Comment · 5 years ago
Gwern's Algernon Argument is relevant here: https://www.gwern.net/Drug-heuristics
Logically, it's likely there must be trade-offs for higher IQs or it would have been selected for more strongly.
Comment · 5 years ago
This problem could be fixed with less regulation, not more. Without intellectual property there would be far more diversity and choice.
Comment · 5 years ago
No, other people are unilaterally making up rules and applying them to me. I would happily live in a society without IP, but am not permitted to do so. Those who support IP demand it globally, at the barrel of a gun.
Comment · 6 years ago
There is no other method to allow local control over publishing identity combined with a coherent view of a decentralized network.
Comment · 6 years ago
Many people didn't want to send email in the 1990s either.
A blockchain is the only technology that allows a simultaneously decentralized and coherent view of what exists on a network along with local control over identity.
I think blockchain sucks in many ways and is a big hassle. We try to hide it as much as possible. It's still the right solution to this problem.
Comment · 6 years ago
More than 25,000 YouTubers now publish to the LBRY protocol, with more coming over every day, for reasons just like this. The total reach of these creators is more than 400,000,000 people.
We're just rolling out our mainstream video product explicitly designed to compete with YouTube @ https://odysee.com
To learn more about the protocol itself, check out https://lbry.tech
Comment · 6 years ago
A blockchain retains a complete, coherent, censorship-resistant listing of what's available on a network in a way that local or federated key-pairs can not.
There is no search all of PeerTube. There is search all of LBRY.
Comment · 6 years ago
LBRY is the best YouTube alternative because it is the only one that fundamentally changes social video in a way that YouTube cannot copy.
LBRY uses a public blockchain to allow creators to retain complete control over their publishing identity. It also has a beautiful consumer app experience at https://lbry.tv, which was used by about 4M people last month (P2P apps at lbry.com/get).
You can read more in our IEEE paper here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9126007
Or dig into the specification and APIs at https://lbry.tech
Comment · 6 years ago
> There is no amount of money that can be paid to someone where there is non-zero risk of dying or having long-lasting damages to your brain, heart or lungs
This is trivially false, as people accept money for health risk every day (see: working in medicine, transportation, mining, leaving your house, etc.)
Comment · 6 years ago
Robin Hanson has a been a strong proponent of this idea. If you're curious about this subject, this post is a must read:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/variolation-may-cut-co...
Comment · 6 years ago
However you feel about this, Twitter did it in pretty much the worst way possible.
1. They had someone with a clear history of strong anti-Trump and anti-Republican sentiment take the action (https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/126545757821512499...)
2. Twitter chose a prediction rather than a factual statement to fact check ("Mail-In Ballots will be..."). Why not start with a truly factually wrong statement about the past?
3. They picked something that is actually debatable! A bipartisan committee concluded it carried some risks in 2005: https://www.wsj.com/articles/heed-jimmy-carter-on-the-danger...
The notion that a company can ever be trusted to "fact check" (aka determine objective truth) is just completely laughable. The closest we can come is labeling agent beliefs about truth ("X says Y is false").
Doing nothing would be better than doing this. Even better would be building solutions that allow community-based (and ideally personalized) derivations of consensus (this is what we're doing at LBRY).
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