But positive-sum is easy to claim and hard to prove. So here's my test, and the core premise of DUKI: if a community can consistently contribute 1% of its surplus to everyone else, and do it transparently on-chain, then that's not just talk. That's proof.

Duker News is my very first attempt to manifest this. It's early, but it's real, and it's all on-chain. Let's see where this goes.

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Feeling sad I am 'the reason'. But that's ok.

> asking for a policy

It is always the same sad story. Someone learns a new name, gets trapped inside, and tries to escalate conflict. I will not call that 'open mind'.

The deeper reason is that there is no kindness — many really don't care about others who seem alien to them. They just hide that behind all kinds of names.

Same here. And sometimes, I got downvoted and treated as an LLM — in the name of valuing the human.

To me, what matters is the will behind the words. Ideas and words themselves are cheap (this becomes clearer every day in the AI age) — they're almost nothing until they're executed and actually help someone.

> "The Dao can be told, but what is told is not the eternal Dao. The Name can be named, but what is named is not the true Name." — Laozi, Dao De Jing

Like code we write — it's dead text on a screen until it's running. And what we really care about is the running effect — and that is exactly the reason, the will, behind why we write the code in the first place.

And without that comment, we wouldn't have talked this much. LLM is the friend.

I like HN, and I'm not a native speaker.

I do use LLMs to refine my wording, but I am not an LLM.

Kind of. And as a guy with a solid science background, I just don't buy into that kind of interpretation.

But if it is numerology, I believe I CHING divination is more like a commit-and-reveal scheme — you can't infer the future from the proof alone. You might only get to verify it once the future actually plays out. Kind of like a zero-knowledge proof — it gives you a proof/advice based on a possible future, but you gain nothing from it since the underlying computation is NP-hard. So better to treat it as a kind of thinking framework — like SWOT or scenario planning, but from a different cultural tradition.

100% agree with geohot's point on creating value for others and playing the positive-sum game. It is the way. Just a small reminder that sometimes we could worry about the return a tiny bit, as we need returns to verify positive-sum value creation and to scale it.

Fair point — updated to "most of the time."

> the opposite is the literal definition of rent-seeking behavior, which produces gobs of money, but provides no (or very little, at best) new value to others.

Rent-seeking is real, and you're right that it can be very profitable — while creating very little value for others. But even so, it remains the best available option when nobody else steps up to offer something better in free markets.

There are always two sides to any deal — the deal maker and the taker. The more competition on the maker side, the more value the taker can get. And the more takers demand real value, the less room rent-seeking behavior has to survive.

Sorry, I don't know the full story behind Hyperloop. But I really doubt he is trying to play a zero-sum or negative-sum game as the article hinted.

Setting aside all the disputes — the deals he made with people are positive-sum. Nobody is forced to buy a Tesla, or invest in, or work for SpaceX.

And in my personal view, all the article brings is deconstructive criticism — which does not fit my tastes. Maybe because I believe the world doesn't owe anyone anything. In fact, to make money, most of the time you have to play a positive-sum game and bring value to others. There is no shame in seeking profit — there is glory in it, if it comes through a positive-sum game.

Those who complain — they can always reject the deal and choose something else. And even better, go offer or support better products in the market and help the best one win.

Wille-Driven Development — I prefer the word from Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation).

What we will begins to matter more. The gap between desire and existence is collapsing. In Genesis, creation is a pure speech-act: fiat lux, and it was so — no implementation details, no build step, will and result simultaneous. We're not there yet. But I find the distance is measurable and shrinking.

The Representation — code, syntax, toolchains — is receding. The Will asserts itself more directly. Welcome to the future.

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I wish I figured this out years ago. I spent significant time learning and building with Flutter, iOS native — chasing that "native feel" — only to realize that for most of what I was building, a well-crafted web app would have been not just good enough, but actually better.

That's the reason I like the idea of DUKI/dju:ki/ — Decentralized Universal Kindness Income, similar to UBI but driven by voluntary kindness and sincere marketing rather than taxation. If AI makes creation trivially easy and IP loses its justification, the question becomes: how do we ensure a tiny part of the wealth generated flows back to everyone?

Those who benefit others deserve to be benefited in return — and if we could, we should help make them more fit.

You're right, nobody should be forced to connect a wallet just to try the app. I'll work on changing this — the plan is to let users explore and watch freely, and only prompt for a wallet when they want to save words.

For now and for better security, anyone interested can create a throwaway MetaMask wallet to try it — no gas needed, it's just wallet connect + SIWE sign-in for identity. (No other transactions will ever be issued.)

A few months ago, I got really into Tao Te Ching and I Ching. The ideas inside stuck with me so much that I felt a real need to build something to share them. So, I made this: https://IChingDAO.Love

The goal is to create a simple, quiet place online where anyone can read and reflect without distraction. No ads, no analytics, no pop-ups—just the original texts and some interpretations.

I just launched it and would love to hear your thoughts.

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If a DUKI-licensed project (similar to MIT, but requiring a business using it freely to “donate 1% of its net profits to a global fund”), how does this conflict with the Open Source Definition and prevent it from being called open source?

It’s simple: you only need the wille to rig and the power to freely manifest that will. No matter how elegant the design of a democratic system, or how many procedural safeguards exist, nothing can stop you.

Sad but true—if there isn’t enough power to balance that wille.

May all who value freedom also have the power to defend it.