Re:The importance of decentralisation
by dmwallin on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:16PM
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No worries! I appreciated the opportunity to clarify my thoughts. Yeah, it doesn't help that my theory is a tough one to validate, since by definition the conditions don't exist to experimentally test it, so you are left with mostly thought experiments. One thing I think is in favor of your argument, decentralized technologies do seem inherently harder to reason about.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. My reference to capitalists was a general point and not related to anything specific you wrote. Others in the thread mention capitalists so I just added it to my reply for color.
>However there are undoubtably systems of human organization and resource management that would change the fundamentals assumptions behind this.
I appreciate you bringing up Conway's Law as an explanation but I'm not fully convinced. I think there's an even more fundamental force than any artificial human organization such as Conway: if a bunch of humans don't want to do something , it creates an opening in the market for another group to do it instead. If that "something" is information technology related, it tends to create centralization.
A bunch of us don't want to set up a personal git server (for whatever reasons), and therefore, it creates an opening in the marketplace for Github to exist. At this primal level of desires, I don't think we have to bring in Conway's Law.