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Sun Mar 06 15:16:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> now the chains are split.
Sun Mar 06 15:16:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> because B mined on the basis of the chain that it saw ; and A idem. there's no guarantee these would stay coherent, and so they didn';t.
Sun Mar 06 15:15:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not being a superposition of eigenstates myself, but a resolved one, i can't both credit and not credit the 5btc. would seem i have to choose one.
Sun Mar 06 15:14:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> at all.
Sun Mar 06 15:14:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> huh ?
Sun Mar 06 15:12:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> now - person X comes to me with a 5 BTC which he wants to spend on milk. B sees the 5 as valid ; A, as invalid. i know both A and B. does this mean i have to choose ?
Sun Mar 06 15:12:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ok, take the nonsense practically : there's A, as illustrated yesterday, the group of six nude ladies ; there's B, b-a. i hope you folks aren't nude atm ?
Sun Mar 06 15:10:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so the option is "either create a money that drives a government, or else create a money that drives a crazy" ?
Sun Mar 06 15:10:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> from a "critique of pure reason" standpoint, it is.
Sun Mar 06 15:09:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> apparently.
Sun Mar 06 15:09:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yup.
Sun Mar 06 15:09:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so basically, forking is +ev for participants until everyone's on his own chain. how does anyone transact this assperger coin ?
Sun Mar 06 15:07:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you're supposed to be a stabilizing influence in my life, world! wtf is this!
Sun Mar 06 15:06:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> why do i always run into people nuttier than myself ?
Sun Mar 06 15:06:35 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> and money, as i stole from another mircea_popescu article, 'is a function of the forum'
Sun Mar 06 15:06:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "non-inflationary, non-traceable" suddenly means something very different.
Sun Mar 06 15:05:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i don't expect this realisation to be within common reach.
Sun Mar 06 15:04:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this notion of money is disjunct enough from the commonly held to be scary.
Sun Mar 06 15:04:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ie, THEY think i paid you 5 btc, but THOSE OTHERS see that same 5 btc going to him. and well.. it's just how it is.
Sun Mar 06 15:03:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the [fundamentally centralzising] question of "tell me the one and only god-given truth as to ownership" dissolves in a cloud of acceptances.