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In 1776, the typical Founding Father was in his 20s or 30s. This matches the age of the typical #Bitcoin revolutionary today.

Loki 2y ago

And the oldest one was the most crucial to their efforts yielding fruits. Just like in business today we see that the 40-60 bracket is where the best leadership comes from.

He most certainly helped give their efforts the right guard rails in order to succeed, as far as it went.

The King was never gonna have much chance against a well organised insurrection, being offshore, and the taxation irking the plebs so much.

But it should also be added that before many of these guys died the process of decline had already fully started. Before even the start of the 19th century was war profiteering and favours for mates.

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Loki

Politics and policy are indeed connected, as is the word police. C is often Ts in many european languages.

It's really a form of protocol engineering, the social order protocol, you might call it.

How do you find a way, with the lowest cost, and the least disruption, to eliminate criminal behaviour - that is, activity that can only be stopped if the motivations for it are eliminated.

Politicians usually opt for "moderate" compromises that in a game theory analysis would be the opposite of the best move. The Cobra Effect is an example of one of the most famous examples of imposing order creating more chaos than the problem itself.

Policies should be a matter of engineering, and then you could call it political engineering. People even mistake the statutes of governments for being the correct way to uphold the informal (but to average joe) contract that the law should have a specified effect, and there is rarely any deep discussion about amending the rule by simplifying it, always to add more and more and more exceptions until it takes an army of lawyers to map out the loopholes.

That's why the number of laws that everyone must agree on should only be tiny. Ten was a good number. Any other decree should be ruled invalid if it substantially contradicts the base rules.

Engineering.

There is no place for rhetoric in engineering, nor for ranking intent above results.

Loki 2y ago

And note that such a legal system existed in Jericho for nearly 9000 years, and part of that story is recorded in books of the Old Testament, most especially Samuel and Judges.

Samuel 8, specifically, warns against substituting the Law of God with the Will of the Monarch, and how it leads to corruption and enslavement.

For a few hundred years the Icelanders also had a system like this where if you were unhappy with your local chief you could pay your dues to another chiefe from elsewhere to be your advocate, and the result was that bad chiefs went broke and good chiefs got rich and there was relative peace from centuries of blood feuds until the catholics came in to fill the role of organised crime cartel.

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« My shit smells better than yours.

Noooooo, take that back my shit smells good, your shit smells awful. »

This is what I hear when I see people debating politicians/political parties.

That’s not politics, not to me. That’s popularity contest fueled by emotions.

Debating policies… that’s politics in my book.

Loki 2y ago

Politics and policy are indeed connected, as is the word police. C is often Ts in many european languages.

It's really a form of protocol engineering, the social order protocol, you might call it.

How do you find a way, with the lowest cost, and the least disruption, to eliminate criminal behaviour - that is, activity that can only be stopped if the motivations for it are eliminated.

Politicians usually opt for "moderate" compromises that in a game theory analysis would be the opposite of the best move. The Cobra Effect is an example of one of the most famous examples of imposing order creating more chaos than the problem itself.

Policies should be a matter of engineering, and then you could call it political engineering. People even mistake the statutes of governments for being the correct way to uphold the informal (but to average joe) contract that the law should have a specified effect, and there is rarely any deep discussion about amending the rule by simplifying it, always to add more and more and more exceptions until it takes an army of lawyers to map out the loopholes.

That's why the number of laws that everyone must agree on should only be tiny. Ten was a good number. Any other decree should be ruled invalid if it substantially contradicts the base rules.

Engineering.

There is no place for rhetoric in engineering, nor for ranking intent above results.

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Loki

The vitamin B1 deficiency and allergic asthma have been difficult speedbumps in the process but now around 3 months dry and smoke free.

For me, the greatest pleasure that is emerging from my recovering body is the return of my laser sharp memory recall. Sure, I probably blotted a substantial amount of it, or dampened it, in the 25 years of intermittent alcoholism, but a top percentile memory is not something that you want to lose.

As clarity reigns and my noticing the noticing becomes more noticable, I notice that I very much depend on my sharp memory to do some of the oddball things I like doing, like navigating in the dark in messy environments, because my memory for space works with only tiny visual and mostly tactile triggering to recall the state of this mess I am tiptoeing through.

It's a funny thing, because as a child a recurring nightmare, and a dream that certain drugs quite consistently triggered this vision over and over again, has 3 parts in it, and one of them is something like the final scene in Labyrinth with the old lady with the pile of old memories on her back.

In it, the junk is miscellaneous, the light is dim and blue, and I just have this constant awareness that I may step on the trigger of a beartrap like jaws on ugly, rusted steel skulls.

If I were to say what the biggest gratitude I have about having finally found the motivation to stop the self poisoning, it would be, to not lose that wonderful gift of a memory so vivid that I am constantly swamped with the images and meaning it washes over me with.

You can take out my eyes, make me deaf, take away my legs, but my memory and my imagination are a private joy that can never truly be snuffed out except by also snuffing the whole thing.

Everyone has a super power, and that super power should is precious, as it is something that you create by continuing to feed into it, with practise, with exercise, with whatever thing it requires to be kept live in your circuits.

Hold on to it until the last lights of your inner kingdom of computation goes out.

Loki 2y ago

Also, btw, messages could have a special marker to indicate they are diffs to a prior message. Maybe there isn't a NIP for this yet.

And yeah, not 3 months, 3 weeks. I forget when exactly, and I am not much of an anniversary guy, but it was on or about the middle of the calendar year's second half starting, ie july..

I guess you could say that things like diffs and markdown are application layer things but how to put them in a place where nostr app devs refer to these things as guidelines and reference implementations.

Stuff about how to manage media hosting is another thing that is a little application specific, but it would be pretty cool if your nostr client also ran an IPFS host and you automatically hosted any file or clipboard buffer of images and videos, and demonstrate what is the really main point, forget the shitcoinery, of IPFS - enabling the hosting of social media while spreading the workload widely.