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Sun Mar 06 15:02:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> aha.
Sun Mar 06 15:01:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform well, not exactly what you said :)
Sun Mar 06 15:01:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is what most molds do under environmental stress - which is exactly what the environment was designed to do to them.
Sun Mar 06 15:00:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not so. bitcoin had 3 types of animal, minerS, nodes, owners. notwitstanding the very problematic weakness of nodes, the minerS unicellular molds merged in one major piece of dogvomit.
Sun Mar 06 14:49:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you're kicking the can. -ev for the player +ev for the group, we're buiolding the soviets omfg fuckme
Sun Mar 06 14:48:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ie, humans have a very lengthy, selected ability to centralize against the possibility of a nice world.
Sun Mar 06 14:48:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> lemme say that schelling points exist PRECISELY because ~irrational~ behaviour is an UNDEFEATABLE solution to your matrix.
Sun Mar 06 14:47:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well you'll have to be a lot more detailed then
Sun Mar 06 14:47:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and i'm telling you, the solution to a broken knee is not to break an elbow.
Sun Mar 06 14:46:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> trust me, unlike you that doesn't play, i ~created~ a homeostatic game world.
Sun Mar 06 14:46:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the problem is that margin-driven mining creates centralisation necessarily.
Sun Mar 06 14:46:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so yes, bitcoin does suffer from game theoretical poor design, but this problem specifically can not be resolved by "adding another bug somewhere else, they'll cancel out".
Sun Mar 06 14:45:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is nonsense. you needn't balance the desire of syphilis to defect from syphilisdom by injecting my with tb ffs.
Sun Mar 06 14:44:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> males trying to get together to gangrape individual females ; females getting together trying to create wailer choruses to keep the male group at bay, everything we don't like about society reduces readily to "it's not made up of individuals", ie, poolmined.
Sun Mar 06 14:44:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the chief problem of human society is pool collusion in this view.
Sun Mar 06 14:43:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ipso definition, individual women in any gendered species are in the pool of womanhood ; and respectively males.
Sun Mar 06 14:42:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is "pools under another name"
Sun Mar 06 14:42:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> !s chiral miners
Sun Mar 06 14:40:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> lettuce not blame the bearer of bad news.
Sun Mar 06 14:40:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is not a problem of scaling, even if it is a problem made apparent by scaling