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Sun Mar 06 15:03:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> specifically what i mean - how about quantum money ? (yes sum X settled as Y in subgrapg S1, but as Z in subgraph S2. problem ?)
Sun Mar 06 15:02:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> purely for exploratory reasons - how far are you willing to take the gossipd ?
Sun Mar 06 15:02:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> aha.
Sun Mar 06 15:01:40 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> or we can lift from a mircea_popescu article, 'Another aspect is that new blocks are mined by one group (miners) but have to be stored in perpetuity by another group (nodes). This creates a situation where X (users) pay Y (miners) to inconvenience Z (nodes), which is unsustainable not to mention sheer nonsense.'
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 14:48:51 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: it is a 'solution' in the sense that there is no exact pill against it, but is -ev for the player.
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 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: not 'bug somewhere else', but a payoff matrix that doesn't equilibrate at 'herd'
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 14:44:35 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: my notion was that bitcoin suffered from a ~game-theoretically~ poor design.