—“Microsoft Azure, the web hosting provider for Gab, has given the company 48 hours to delete some anti-Semitic posts or face a Big Tech shut-down. Gab is a Twitter alternative that claims to protect the right to free speech. It’s not a very good alternative, as the numbers just aren’t there to keep it interesting. Most of the time it’s just righties and ultra-righties fighting amongst themselves. But Gab’s claim to fame is that they won’t kick people off for having unpopular views or engaging in insult trading that morons refer to as “hate speech.” For some, that’s a worthwhile promise.”—-
photos_and_videos/your_posts/37782797_10156523234712264_4987516826721189888_o_10156523234702264.jpg Steve PenderI was surprised their market cap is now 500B, hadn’t noticed since their IPO when I laughed at 100B. I just don’t see it, still don’t.Jul 26, 2018 4:08pmCurt Doolittlethere is a long way to go downJul 26, 2018 4:09pmRob EllermanWhen they moved past GE I knew we were in bizarro world — then GE launches their ad campaigns about how they were a millennial tech friendly company … it’s just stupidity squaredJul 26, 2018 4:41pmMichael ChurchillThey have 2.2 billion users. That is a lot, and justifies a very large valuation. Part of what’s happening is the law of large numbers: How much more can they grow? Also youths are being drawn to other, more operationally retarded platforms.
The underlying principle of Facebook is still fabulous. The problem is pollution of the commons. It requires diligence to constantly block people who post stuff that is not interesting to oneself.
Curt’s idea that it should be a utility and regulated as such makes sense in a way. That said, to say Facebook is a utility is to sort of suggest that there shouldn’t be competition between social networking sites. But that doesn’t seem right either. We have Twitter, Instagram, Linked In. They all compete with Facebook.Jul 26, 2018 4:48pmJC TrottTrump curse strikes againJul 26, 2018 4:59pmCurt Doolittle???Jul 26, 2018 4:59pmRob EllermanNot debating the value and network effects of a large user base – The economics of software development is changing rapidly … another way to state it is easy come … easy goJul 26, 2018 5:00pmJC TrottEverything/everyone that goes against him winds up fucked.Jul 26, 2018 5:00pmJC TrottIt’s been happening since before the election. Look at the CEOs that talked shit, the countries that talked shit, the international leaders that talked shit, the Hollyweird people that talked shit. Everybody/ every organization that talks shit about him gets kicked in the teeth.Jul 26, 2018 5:01pmSteven KolpekFolks who skip the Trump Train gets caught out in the rain.Jul 26, 2018 5:33pmJC TrottThat’s because there’s no brakesJul 26, 2018 5:33pmDavin EastleyInstagram is owned by FB. :)Jul 26, 2018 5:36pmSabrina SilviuI bet there will be huge buy volumes after this.Jul 26, 2018 6:52pmSabrina SilviuMy fund bought western union after it dropped 1/3 of its value amid an exaggerated downward momentum in fall of 2012. Don’t take ‘jumps’ as such too seriously as a long term investor on large caps, for more serious warning signs of downward pressure can be seen in consolidated movements over the years (see the chart of arcelor mittal for example). Of course it all depends on your time horizon
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/features/western-union-whacked-25-lower-on-gloomier-12-view.ampJul 26, 2018 7:10pmHolly MorriganUsers leaving a platform with notoriously biased and heavy-handed censors? imagine my shockJul 26, 2018 7:34pmTony SzaboUser growth is allegedly not what was projected and the EU regulations are being blamed. So it seems speculation not valuation. Might have something to do with certain people unhappy about the CEO saying holocaust denial can be a genuine point of view.Jul 26, 2018 8:13pmEric BestYounger users leaving a platform after the boomer invasion.Jul 26, 2018 9:36pmEly HarmanThere is only one major social media site in each basic format.Jul 27, 2018 2:57amChristopher IvančićIf the Zucc only banned “Holocaust Deniers” then none of this would ever of happened..Jul 27, 2018 2:53pm
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/37782797_10156523234712264_4987516826721189888_o_10156523234702264.jpg Steve PenderI was surprised their market cap is now 500B, hadn’t noticed since their IPO when I laughed at 100B. I just don’t see it, still don’t.Jul 26, 2018 4:08pmCurt Doolittlethere is a long way to go downJul 26, 2018 4:09pmRob EllermanWhen they moved past GE I knew we were in bizarro world — then GE launches their ad campaigns about how they were a millennial tech friendly company … it’s just stupidity squaredJul 26, 2018 4:41pmMichael ChurchillThey have 2.2 billion users. That is a lot, and justifies a very large valuation. Part of what’s happening is the law of large numbers: How much more can they grow? Also youths are being drawn to other, more operationally retarded platforms.
The underlying principle of Facebook is still fabulous. The problem is pollution of the commons. It requires diligence to constantly block people who post stuff that is not interesting to oneself.
Curt’s idea that it should be a utility and regulated as such makes sense in a way. That said, to say Facebook is a utility is to sort of suggest that there shouldn’t be competition between social networking sites. But that doesn’t seem right either. We have Twitter, Instagram, Linked In. They all compete with Facebook.Jul 26, 2018 4:48pmJC TrottTrump curse strikes againJul 26, 2018 4:59pmCurt Doolittle???Jul 26, 2018 4:59pmRob EllermanNot debating the value and network effects of a large user base – The economics of software development is changing rapidly … another way to state it is easy come … easy goJul 26, 2018 5:00pmJC TrottEverything/everyone that goes against him winds up fucked.Jul 26, 2018 5:00pmJC TrottIt’s been happening since before the election. Look at the CEOs that talked shit, the countries that talked shit, the international leaders that talked shit, the Hollyweird people that talked shit. Everybody/ every organization that talks shit about him gets kicked in the teeth.Jul 26, 2018 5:01pmSteven KolpekFolks who skip the Trump Train gets caught out in the rain.Jul 26, 2018 5:33pmJC TrottThat’s because there’s no brakesJul 26, 2018 5:33pmDavin EastleyInstagram is owned by FB. :)Jul 26, 2018 5:36pmSabrina SilviuI bet there will be huge buy volumes after this.Jul 26, 2018 6:52pmSabrina SilviuMy fund bought western union after it dropped 1/3 of its value amid an exaggerated downward momentum in fall of 2012. Don’t take ‘jumps’ as such too seriously as a long term investor on large caps, for more serious warning signs of downward pressure can be seen in consolidated movements over the years (see the chart of arcelor mittal for example). Of course it all depends on your time horizon
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/features/western-union-whacked-25-lower-on-gloomier-12-view.ampJul 26, 2018 7:10pmHolly MorriganUsers leaving a platform with notoriously biased and heavy-handed censors? imagine my shockJul 26, 2018 7:34pmTony SzaboUser growth is allegedly not what was projected and the EU regulations are being blamed. So it seems speculation not valuation. Might have something to do with certain people unhappy about the CEO saying holocaust denial can be a genuine point of view.Jul 26, 2018 8:13pmEric BestYounger users leaving a platform after the boomer invasion.Jul 26, 2018 9:36pmEly HarmanThere is only one major social media site in each basic format.Jul 27, 2018 2:57amChristopher IvančićIf the Zucc only banned “Holocaust Deniers” then none of this would ever of happened..Jul 27, 2018 2:53pm
Hallucinate…. I think the correct term is ‘predict’. As far as I know the process of continuous recursive disambiguation that we call experience, consists of preserving computational efficiency by relying on prediction whenever possible. Brains are expensive organs:11x muscle.
We “hallucinate” the periphery of our field of vision to be a lot more rich in detail than it actually is. https://t.co/0AZjW1ingl https://t.co/Woa4NeFKKx
photos_and_videos/your_posts/35523572_10156436024792264_6576688205511262208_n_10156436024787264.jpg “INSTITUTIONS AS CODE”Günther Shroomachersmart contracts aren’t the same?Jun 18, 2018 3:21pmNick ZitoThere seems to be a close resemblance as I see it through my logic.
I have attempted to get Curt to cover smart contracts as relating to developing an efficient and ‘operational’ means of distributing a basic income but never received a response.
Can smart contracts cover the entire spectrum of due diligence when performing testimonlialsim? I think that would be a good starting point.Jun 19, 2018 9:07amCurt DoolittleyesJun 19, 2018 9:12amCurt DoolittleAlthough, smart contracts as currently constructed are not structured strictly enough.Jun 19, 2018 9:12amNick ZitoI agree. I think they are also currently too simplistic to perform the functions required to cover the scope of Propertariansim and Testimonialism.
I also think this scientific realism is already out of reach for most in terms of understanding and practice that by introducing actual coded forms of Propertariansim and Testimonliasm (law & ethics) is probably still far off any practical use. However, it does seem the logical step in development and implementation.Jun 19, 2018 9:20am”INSTITUTIONS AS CODE”
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/35523572_10156436024792264_6576688205511262208_n_10156436024787264.jpg “INSTITUTIONS AS CODE”Günther Shroomachersmart contracts aren’t the same?Jun 18, 2018 3:21pmNick ZitoThere seems to be a close resemblance as I see it through my logic.
I have attempted to get Curt to cover smart contracts as relating to developing an efficient and ‘operational’ means of distributing a basic income but never received a response.
Can smart contracts cover the entire spectrum of due diligence when performing testimonlialsim? I think that would be a good starting point.Jun 19, 2018 9:07amCurt DoolittleyesJun 19, 2018 9:12amCurt DoolittleAlthough, smart contracts as currently constructed are not structured strictly enough.Jun 19, 2018 9:12amNick ZitoI agree. I think they are also currently too simplistic to perform the functions required to cover the scope of Propertariansim and Testimonialism.
I also think this scientific realism is already out of reach for most in terms of understanding and practice that by introducing actual coded forms of Propertariansim and Testimonliasm (law & ethics) is probably still far off any practical use. However, it does seem the logical step in development and implementation.Jun 19, 2018 9:20am”INSTITUTIONS AS CODE”
1) Ethical AI is a trivially solvable problem in (a) hardware (b) software design (c) requirement of insurance, and (d) extremely harsh punishment of violations of that law, applied to every person in the chain of decidability. (d) international treaty.
2) We have solved this problem for thousands of years among humans with one single rule. All civilizations and all law is based upon that one rule. That politicians, philosophers and theologians ‘skirt’ that rule does not mean we cannot apply it to software.
3) There is nothing ethical or moral about war. That war exists defines the limit of ethics and morality. There will be killing machines just as there are machine guns and nuclear weapons, and the first people to invent them will dominate war, politics, economics, for a century.
4) The military incentive always DEFINES the political order. Not the other way around. You cannot stop this technology. This tech means greatest manufacturing capacity and engineering capacity will dominate all future wars – and therefore politics and therefore economics.
5) However, it is entirely possible to protect citizens from criminal uses the same way we do from nuclear weapons. However, the cost of AI will be in the billions today and dependent on vast infrastructure. But this price will decrease while the cost of refining n-weapons won’t.
1) Ethical AI is a trivially solvable problem in (a) hardware (b) software design (c) requirement of insurance, and (d) extremely harsh punishment of violations of that law, applied to every person in the chain of decidability. (d) international treaty.
2) We have solved this problem for thousands of years among humans with one single rule. All civilizations and all law is based upon that one rule. That politicians, philosophers and theologians ‘skirt’ that rule does not mean we cannot apply it to software.
3) There is nothing ethical or moral about war. That war exists defines the limit of ethics and morality. There will be killing machines just as there are machine guns and nuclear weapons, and the first people to invent them will dominate war, politics, economics, for a century.
4) The military incentive always DEFINES the political order. Not the other way around. You cannot stop this technology. This tech means greatest manufacturing capacity and engineering capacity will dominate all future wars – and therefore politics and therefore economics.
5) However, it is entirely possible to protect citizens from criminal uses the same way we do from nuclear weapons. However, the cost of AI will be in the billions today and dependent on vast infrastructure. But this price will decrease while the cost of refining n-weapons won’t.
