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Open void4 opened this issue 6 years ago • 8 comments

"Blockchains are machines built out of agreement" - Mark S. Miller

void4 avatar Nov 19 '18 01:11 void4

"Do not separate designation and authority" - Norm Hardy

zarutian avatar Nov 23 '18 13:11 zarutian

"Petabyte memory, farming robots: the realization that we could watch every single seed individually" - Joe Armstrong https://youtu.be/37wFVVVZlVU?t=2165

void4 avatar Mar 03 '19 04:03 void4

Richard Dawkins said in an offhand comment in The Selfish Gene that “Money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism.” - https://nakamotoinstitute.org/reciprocal-altruism-in-the-theory-of-money/

void4 avatar Apr 22 '20 12:04 void4

Society provides few incentives to develop common goods

void4 avatar Apr 23 '20 18:04 void4

I wish I could find the original quote for this: "money is a system of temporally delayed mutual reciprocation"

Edit: Got it!

Richard Dawkins said in an offhand comment in The Selfish Gene that “Money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism.”

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/reciprocal-altruism-in-the-theory-of-money/

void4 avatar Aug 31 '20 01:08 void4

Did you just re-discover this quote? You posted the same one on April 22nd, with the same link :)

fjl avatar Aug 31 '20 07:08 fjl

@fjl image

Edit: I was thinking about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24327989 kind of in relation to this: https://medium.com/@danrobinson/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest-ecc5f0505dff

void4 avatar Aug 31 '20 07:08 void4

a business can be open to the public because its cash register isn’t

on encapsulation, from http://www.laputan.org/pub/papers/Joule.pdf, 1.2. Rules of the Game

void4 avatar Oct 15 '21 15:10 void4