sjeohp

Location: NZ. Remote: yes Willing to relocate: depends Tech: rust, bitcoin, c, everything. Email: sjeohp@gmail.com Background in iOS and crypto. Formerly Accedo and Parity. Currently building a web gaming platform with money in it.

> fake news propaganda leads to world wars and butchery of millions of innocent people.

What are you referring to here? Wars and butchery have been reliably championed throughout history by regular news propaganda.

> There is little indication that the "slippery slope" is more than a fallacy.

If the slippery slope were real and the control of information successful, you might still think this.

> Productivity gains help the world by allowing more services and products to be provided at cheaper rates.

That can be true and still not ease the pain inflicted by unemployment. The poster is confronting the consequences of their work and you are suggesting The Greater Good should simply trump their basic human empathy... An alternative might be to accept both benefits and costs of said work and make an effort to mitigate the costs via charity, volunteering, support for social programs, etc.

I'm not saying you're wrong but doesn't that inherently favour the side claiming "there is no problem because you can't prove there's a problem." Until by the time someone can prove there's a problem we already have a generation with lead poisoning or a collapsed ecosystem or whatever it may be.

Would it shock you to learn that many politicians are liars?

Not sure what you are hoping for beyond the self-evident unwillingness of most journalists to challenge state enthusiasm for the Foreign Intervention of the Month.

Find a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.

Math has everything to do with nature.

Mining gold gets harder over time. If you want more gold that's the price you pay.

Trust-less consensus may be the same. Nature doesn't care either way.

That's like saying space travel is a stupid waste of energy because it costs more than driving. Some things are expensive, sometimes they get cheaper. In the meantime if you want to get to Mars you either buy the proven rocket or the cheap one.

Nano claims to do it in action. So do others. Some of them might even be proven right, the vast majority will not, so acting like it's some kind of trivial solved problem is disingenuous. Ethereum's PoS has been in development for years and there is still no consensus that it will be a better mechanism than PoW.

> “However, it's possible to solve without using a country's-worth of energy to support a pathetic ~10 transactions per second.”

Great! I look forward to seeing your solution in action.

> You're literally killing the planet

This kind of hyperbole suggests you didn’t read the person’s comment very closely.

How is using X joules mining bitcoin worse than using it for anything else? Eg. mining gold?

If the energy grid was 100% sustainable would bitcoin still be “literally killing the planet”? Surely not, so maybe the problem is actually the energy source, not this particular use case.

>But, it's also important to note that we don't have to answer the "how" question in order to identify halting oracles as a viable explanation. We often identify new phenomena and anomalies without being able to explain them, so the identification is a first step.

I don't think it constitutes an explanation at all, let alone a viable one, if all it does is beg the same question.

The problem was already identified: "how does human cognition work?" You've renamed it: "how does this supposed halting oracle work?" That might be an interesting framing but it is not a viable explanation of anything until you've proved that such oracles exist or in other words, solved the halting problem.

>Hence, a halting oracle is the best explanation for the human mind

What does it explain though? That the human brain has a black box capable of solving certain problems... how exactly?

> China has done far more egregious transgression to be sanctioned for than Russia

That was the initial claim.

> tampered with elections

By that metric the US is most egregious, so is hypocritical to sanction anyone

The assumptions are:

1) third party fact-checkers (eg. snopes) are credible and reliable.

2) the third party "Botometer" (machine-learning model) is valid and was trained on an accurately classified corpus.

This type of study always relies on the elevation of someone's subjective assessment (eg. "this account is a bot/human", "this fact-checker is honest") to the status of objective truth.

It is a serious weakness when studying subjects loaded with political consequence, wherein well-resourced stakeholders are constantly attempting to shape competing narratives by any means available to them.

They controlled for that using transparent glass with real ants on the other side.

https://www.udocz.com/read/are-ants-capable-of-self-recognit...

"I would like to pay/donate to an organization even though no major credit card will let me."

I wasn't really making an argument, just alluding to the fact that western governments/media have a history of undermining/overthrowing democratic left wing leaders in the region, so mocking the idea as you did was disingenuous.

That said, I think it's possible the revolution has deteriorated since the death of Chavez and that corruption is indeed rife. I'm just wary given the history of propaganda.

I also think its possible that the administration still has popular support in spite of its real problems, given the violent right-wing nature of the opposition and the apparent lack of credible evidence suggesting otherwise.

> Of course, this could all be a plot of the evil Imperialist western capitalist powers to strangle the last peoples' stronghold. /s

From your sarcasm I take it you're unaware of the history of leftist governments in Central and South America?

> an utterly bankrupt (morally and politically) government

How so? My understanding is that they just won regional elections praised by international observers as free and transparent[0].

Interestingly, western governments/media & opposition claims of fraud (without evidence) directly contradict the findings of the delegation from the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts (CEELA). From the article cited:

The CEELA delegation was comprised of 1300 international observers, including former Colombian Electoral Court President Guillermo Reyes, ex-president of the Honduran Supreme Electoral Court, Augusto Aguilar, and former Peruvian electoral magistrate Gastón Soto.

According to the body’s report, the vote was held under conditions of “total normality” and the right to a secret ballot was “guaranteed”.

I also find this interesting:

For its part, CEELA has reported that it has yet to receive any formal denunciations from the opposition, which has issued its fraud allegations via the media.

President Maduro has requested a 100 percent audit of Sunday’s elections, a call that was subsequently echoed by the [opposition].

[0] https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13442

..... wow you're adorable.

Try the past two decades of Venezuelan politics just for an appetizer.

Absolutely. Such institutions have never abused such power in the past and surely never will.

They would never use fear to manipulate public discourse for example.

> potentially hazardous messages

THOUGHTCRIME ALERT

Must protect fragile minds from dangerous messages...

> The icon would provide users an assessment of the news outlet's ratio of fact versus fiction and reporting versus opinion.

Yes, we should always trust powerful institutions to tell us what the truth is...

And no evidence against it. I believe it was intended as a hypothesis.