great questions!

blockhash prevents a sybil attack

what stops me making 1 million pubkeys until I roll the perfect character?

using blockhash i am limited to wait a bit for a confirmation, and dungeon master can set a fee or limit number in a campaign

there can of course be multiple DMs you choose from, or guilds of DMs

Brian Green thinks consciousness might be just an arrangement of fundamental particles in some structure we don’t yet understand.

What do you think?

The spam is getting more diverse and adaptive.

Science does nullify religion, because it keeps pushing it to the boundaries. Scientific progress forces religion to continuously change its discourse and even its most basic definitions, like "God". I have never heard two Christians give the same definition of that very fundamental concept (supposedly).

Lately I've posted a couple of times about the trick that religious intellectuals like Jordan Peterson use nowadays. That is, they use in their discourse the most sophisticated and abstract conceptualizations and explanations to justify religion and God, as a device to produce the headline "It's hereby demonstrated", so the common believer who didn't understand anything and doesn't really want to anyway, can simply applaud and quote when confronted. Even though he is really being told that his idea and belief in god as learnt from his family and his church is completely false.

Jordan Peterson's argument is that atheists like Dawkins are dishonest because they attack a series of strawmen, namely, the anthropomorphic god that intervenes in human affairs, and the belief in the scriptures as literal. Peterson's argument is that because those two things are false, the atheist argument is moot.

I would say sustaining that there is no such thing as a human-like interventionist god, and that the Bible is just a bunch of metaphors that talk about psychology and should never be read as literal, are pretty much classic anti-religious ideas, and closer to what atheists have been saying forever than to what the vast majority of religious people believe.

If instead of religious types, it was some other group who acted like that, we would dismiss them as dishonest for "moving the goalposts". But because Americans, basically, still drag around this cultural bag, we continue to tiptoe around the idea and intellectuals keep torturing their discourse to avoid making the US mainstream upset.

Afaik in The Netherlands they switched everyone over to an EU entity last year but nothing changed.

Looks more likely that is a technical problem, not a privacy crackdown. For now, sleep soundly.

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Ultimately, in principal, what counts as 'spam' is a subjective judgement and should probably be treated as such. To me, that suggests an elegant reputation system.

I'm just thinking out loud here, so take the technical feasibility with a huge grain of salt: What if there was a mechanism for automatically muting anyone who 10% of my follows had already muted? - and that would cascade so that if I were automatically muting someone based on 10% of my follows (or explicitly muting), that would count towards the 10% threshold for any of my followers to also automatically mute, and so on. So, once a new spam bot popped up, it seem like it wouldn't be long at all before that spam bot was effectively eliminated for anyone with just a few follows via a cascading reputation system. BTW, the 10% threshold is just an arbitrary example value. Ultimately, It would probably be best to be adjustable on an individual user basis.

We actually do. They were all rebuilt after the Berlin wall fell. What you are looking at is not older than 30 years.

Why don't we make buildings like this anymore 😭

Its not Oktoberfest tho

I'm standing on a beer bench in a beer tent. AMA.