theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: A Penny for Your Books
They can't be resold ... But They can be copied and transmitted for free
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theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
Oh I didn't know that ...I guess that is what you get when you think about things without studying them first. Those ideas are probably latent in lots of things I've read which is why I picked up on them so easily
theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
yeah but now you are switching your argument from won't work because people cant hold all the issues in their mind to wont work because people will decide to delegate their votes to idiots ??? And hackers.
If you believe that generally democracy works pretty well now then I agree that it isn't a good alternative.
If you don't believe that then it is an interesting alternative. that attempts to solve some of the problems that modern democracy doesn't. Like people who think differently about different topics and want their differing opinions to matter.
theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
yeah exactly what I've though about... a nomic code base :)
theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
To me the Id issue isn't the biggest hurdle at all. My government (Canada ) already has a way of verifying my information when I want to access my tax return or something like that. It mails me an access code to the address that they have on file for me and that plus the pass word i enter at account creation gives me access to the system
theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
That is why this system has vote delegation. You can delegate an issue to someone else ...and then they in turn can delegate it to someone who knows more than them
theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network
I've thought about a structure like this for a long time. And I independently came up with most of the same ideas as they did. One additional thing I've also thought would be cool would be to have the implementation of a liquid democracy system itself under control by this same system. So you could use it to vote on pull requests and bug fixes and other things like that. I think this step would be necessary for real government because the code that was responsible for this system would in effect be part of the laws of the country.
theatgrex | 10 years ago | on: Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds
Maybe you should figure out how to do that :)
theatgrex | 11 years ago | on: Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
you could just have self powered led pins that have a switch in the head that turns on when you press the head down
...this way you could also selectively light up pins!
theatgrex | 11 years ago | on: Machine intelligence, part 1
Machine Superintelligence is basically the same thing as the singularity. you can't have one with out the other
theatgrex | 11 years ago | on: How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire
You're hired!
theatgrex | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind
the fastest point of sail is a beam reach or a broad reach (perpendicular to the wind) ...not upwind
theatgrex | 11 years ago | on: Trial by Fire: Extreme rituals forge intense social bonds
use this one weird trick to forge a bond among your peers and vanquish your enemies
theatgrex | 11 years ago | on: How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
That's cool I actually wanted to do some thing similar ... a site that would guess your sex, age, and country of birth from the name you gave
theatgrex | 12 years ago | on: AI
if by alchemy you mean making gold from another element then it does exist. we just cant do it yet
theatgrex | 12 years ago | on: AI
But we do have proof that general intelligence exists. So How would it be impossible for artificial general intelligence to exist ? Do you believe in mind body dualism? AGI will be difficult but comparing it to Bigfoot or Leperchauns is rediculous.
There is a huge difference between very very very hard and impossible.
theatgrex | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: A developers-only news site you join via pull request
also interesting because presumably... as more of the low hanging fruit get fixed or added...it will take more effort to become a member
theatgrex | 12 years ago | on: Tell HN: Nest Software Update Failed and Now We're Freezing
you are right from a marketing persepctive it would be bad . y built in failsafe would be a much better way to go.
theatgrex | 12 years ago | on: Tell HN: Nest Software Update Failed and Now We're Freezing
It would be cool for things like this to ship with a dumb backup that can be easily replace if/when catastrophic failure occurs
theatgrex | 13 years ago | on: Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
Oh yeah you are right, my mistake!
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