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Should we be afraid of AI?

Accept that the AI made in our image could be conscious or accept that consciousness is  something non-physical. Or at least requires squishiness.

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High Anxieties doco – the mathematics of Chaos (BBC 2008)

Documentary from the BBC just when the GFC was unfolding. It was obviously in the works beforehand and covers how the determinist idea of mathematics was fractured by chaos theory and the “butterfly effect”. The last segment with Lovelock (from Gaia theory fame) and how we are on a slope of climate change rather than a tipping point is more …

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The problem with staking in the decentralised world

The decentralised/blockchain community holds independence, freedom and a lack of hierarchy as a core ideal, however they are using a flawed method from game theory that will do the opposite of their intentions. Staking Staking is everywhere in the new decentralised economy. Whether it be Proof-of-Stake to determine who gets to verify a transaction – and get the rewards, to …

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The Age of Idleness

We stand idle in the heat  Crammed onto a platform waiting for a train delayed by 10 minutes The  platform is overcrowded  move down the platform, move down the platform the announcer keeps saying To where I wonder I have spent the last 8 hours idly moving data around a spreadsheet something a computer could and should have done  It …

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Decentralised UBI with stable coin and uses – DemoKratia

Integrated decentralised Guaranteed Income (GI) of 30k (K30,000), with a full-Ampleforth scaled stable coin, face recognition based verification of unique identity  + Idena (flip tests) sweep to weed out fake accounts. Demurrage and flow siphon (transaction tax) to control inflation. Automated self-lending (DeFi) service, coin/token/fiat exchange, pay per use social media. And social money for civic organisations.  Names: Coin – …

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Suburbia – an odd thing to choose

Suburbia – An odd thing to choose “The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car.  We shall use up tires, …

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Lender-less borrowing – the end of banks

There is no reason to have a lender when you borrow money, you can just borrow from yourself at zero interest. How is this possible? Our view of money and debt has changed significantly in the last 12 years since the GFC. We used to think banks took our deposits of government printed cash and lent them out to borrowers. …

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Fixing the world

Modern Monetary Theory: democratising money Universal Income: Empowering real people Trustless decentralised bureaucracy: decreasing the labour and difficulty in doing simple tasks, and eliminating nepotism. Liquid democratic organisations: Real democracy for shared resources and infrastructure including healthcare Automate: Its still cheaper to exploit cheap workers than to automate, we need to automate all labour and increase leisure and contemplation. If …