Hacker News: openfuture

New comment by openfuture in "Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations"

openfuture — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:54:24 +0000

Since you got answered in downvotes I suspect the answer is "because people will switch languages on you"

New comment by openfuture in "Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)"

openfuture — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:55:02 +0000

The way it has been described to me is that if you always take the same route to work then your cognitive performance goes down. Staying curious and exploring the different routes is hard with relatively few waypoints but then you can zoom into more granular decisions (or out ... to the causes).

New comment by openfuture in "Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment"

openfuture — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:57:49 +0000

I just spent the night dancing. That's what I am mostly passionate about, discovering peer-to-peer and building trust. Hoping to see people participate in the future they want rather than suffering the present that they believe inevitable.

New comment by openfuture in "Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web"

openfuture — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 05:31:51 +0000

My project datalisp.is about making something useful.

New comment by openfuture in "Centralization is inevitable, but decentralization is right behind it"

openfuture — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:26:07 +0000

So make the change. If your idea is strong and has gravity then people will follow (clearly the guy who is working hard with no reward is a FOSS developer ;)

New comment by openfuture in "Centralization is inevitable, but decentralization is right behind it"

openfuture — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:47:21 +0000

Sorry I just read this exchange again and I totally misread your first comment. Tbh I'm a bit tilted at the moment. I'll take a break.

New comment by openfuture in "Centralization is inevitable, but decentralization is right behind it"

openfuture — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:20:34 +0000

I believe it was kind but the tone does not get across the textification.

Glad to hear your justifications. They are more persuasive than the initial representation.

Thank you for engaging the constructive conversation.. now w.r.t. the power of financial interests, I think it is overestimated and easily shattered but we will just have to see what happens.

New comment by openfuture in "Centralization is inevitable, but decentralization is right behind it"

openfuture — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:38:04 +0000

Preach yo! the medium is the message.

New comment by openfuture in "Centralization is inevitable, but decentralization is right behind it"

openfuture — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:35:53 +0000

Sorry but you are full of shit. Centralization is not digitization. Centralization is relying on the use of coercion. It's a /central/ source of truth.

The identity system we've been stuck with since WW1 will finally be replaced with something decentralized and approaching fair thanks to digitization. What we're lacking is the software that gives individuals self sovereignty.

New comment by openfuture in "SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed"

openfuture — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 11:37:48 +0000

Degrading? Hah! man.. I've prioritized this problem over everything else in my life to the point where it has almost killed me and it has robbed me of everything.. when you are living on the street with 0 money in your pocket and you need to take a shit and the bathroom costs a coin to enter then what do you do? Cause I guess the difference between us and dogs is that you can poo straight into the plastic bag, no need for the intermediate step... Now if I would accept a job creating problems for regular people I'd have north of 100k for sitting in my chair and occasionally pressing a few buttons on my keyboard. But my refusal is absolute, the problem I am working on is important and if no one is willing to pay me for it then that is not my problem (yes it is but it is even more everyones elses problem than it is mine).

New comment by openfuture in "SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed"

openfuture — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:43:46 +0000

It is meant to solve the class of problems (in the computer science sense) that is cryptocurrency. This is because I want a name system where the definitions are given meaning relative to our economic system but where the economics within the network should converge on better incentives (which is why the approach should encompass the space of solutions; so we can find the points in that space which have good tradeoffs w.r.t. reality, our current central currency model systematically produces pollution and the motivation of datalisp is to eventually replace that system with a provably better one).

New comment by openfuture in "SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed"

openfuture — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:30:36 +0000

Am I affected? sr.ht/~ilmu/tala.saman ... I would appreciate knowing so I have time to move and since you (drew) are in this thread this is the expedient way to find out...

New comment by openfuture in "How to communicate effectively as a developer"

openfuture — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 17:20:34 +0000

Rather than poor theory of mind what about good understanding of economics. The cost of absolutely clear context is too high to bear in many situation, it is often better to get the message across in whatever way works for those who are also in the know.. that way collaboration can cheapen the cost of constructing context. Of course if there is an off-the-shelf context available that you can refer to then there is no communication problem in the first place.

New comment by openfuture in "Reinvent the Wheel"

openfuture — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 05:37:00 +0000

Yeah my grades were terrible but there was this one time that the teacher had to regrade everyone because I spotted something he hadn't seen himself and so my solution was better than the one everyone was repeating by rote memorization.

I always took the elite classes so that stung a lot for all those perfect students.

I don't give a fuck about grades, that system of assessments is cruel and inaccurate. It makes people stupid.

New comment by openfuture in "Reinvent the Wheel"

openfuture — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:05:19 +0000

For me this is how I learned mathematics up until university. By just going unprepared to exams or doing extracurricular competitions and then "inventing the math" in the exam. In the case of competitions it was a bit more fun than exams which would still just be testing one or two ideas with a few examples but still it is in my opinion the more fun way to go about it. All these kids who were memorizing things, or studying the thing to death, a lot of them had trouble understanding what it was that they were doing.

New comment by openfuture in "The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (1997)"

openfuture — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 22:17:48 +0000

Doubt. Attention is definitely important but as I keep saying; the value of your contribution is not based in opportunity cost but rather the dependency structure. If many people are providing you with attention then that is making you an important dependency in some sense but someone who maintains critical infrastructure is also worth alot, even if no one pays attention.

New comment by openfuture in "Most people don’t finish online job applications"

openfuture — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:00:31 +0000

> I'm all about actually changing things.

Me too.

Where I am from there is a lot of bullying. All the way.. from small kids and up to the political representatives.

What I am doing (and I do not recommend this btw) is to exit every norm, so I do everything superficial poorly. I never edit anything I write, I just post the first draft, I don't cut my hair, I don't wear shoes, my clothes I've just found, I can't remember when I last bought clothes, I don't own a phone, I don't use any social media. Basically I set myself up for being bullied.

However! I also work on the most important problem; the idea being that the absurdity may wake people up to the idea that maybe it's better to help me (by editing things or contributing things) than it is to bully me when what they are doing is nonsense and what I am doing is necessary... The point is that if you cannot use violence then you've got to use humor and poke fun at the holes in the opponents argument.

New comment by openfuture in "We're Drowning"

openfuture — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:01:46 +0000

How about building on solid ground for once? Datalisp.is the thing I keep posting here and it keeps getting overlooked but a solid foundation means longer lasting structures, just look at the 3-4-5 triangle; it still has a right angle.

New comment by openfuture in "I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems"

openfuture — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 23:04:38 +0000

Yeah I am not a fan of the login walls and all that either but there is a reason that we should try to use free and open source software and currently matrix is the option that is convincing enough to use.

Datalisp.is the web of trust / semantic web / whatever. It doesn't exist outside my head currently but it also exists in lots of other heads (at least bits and pieces) so I believe we should manifest it.

New comment by openfuture in "I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems"

openfuture — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:35:34 +0000

Why twitter man.. these questions are clearly important but there is a space to discuss them https://matrix.to/#/#datalisp:matrix.org