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Re:In defense of cryptocurrency on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:50AM (#31695020)
> "You can sell your house atomically and instantly to anyone in the world with no lawyers or escrow agents. You can pledge it as collateral and borrow against it. You can fractionalize it and sell a portion."

Who enforces seizure when lendee defaults but the lender is "anyone in the world"?

Re:Crypto is an unproductive bubble on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:54PM (#30730833)
let's just keep it simple.

crypto is good for the following:

1. when you're living in armageddon and/or under an authoritative regime and/or need an exit from fiat for wte reason. not saying it's easy to exit into it, but it's there

2. to create a recursive never-ending loop of collateralized lending. to trade tokens in order to create tokens that can then be traded for other tokens used to collateralize lending for a different set of tokens

for anything else, there are better and more efficient solutions.

Re:Brian Keating and Lex Fridman: Shape of the Universe on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:15PM (#30075608)
Curious question: we used to think the earth was flat because our measuring devices weren't sophisticated enough to identify the curvature of the earth. The range at which those devices could measure wasn't enough.

In this video, Brian Keating talks about how we know the universe is flat because we can measure the angles between objects that form a triangle, and those angles come out to be 180deg which is evidence of a flat universe.

How do we know our measuring devices now are sophisticated enough at scale to accurately determine this? Doesn't this feel reminiscent of the flat earth measurements?

Re:New theory proposes ‘forgetting’ is a form of learning on Saturday January 15, 2022 @07:03PM (#29951796)
look into neuromorphic computing

Make a case for the proposition opposite the one you believe in: web2 vs. web3

I think there's a lot of contention in a lot of mainstream conversation (esp Twitter) between web2 and web3 critics. I've also found that a lot of times we're always talking around each other and operating with different frames of reference. What I would like to see is some attempt at finding mutual ground to set the stage for actually productive conversations.I'm curious to hear how someone...

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Re:New theory proposes ‘forgetting’ is a form of learning on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:01AM (#29944321)
would dropout be considered forgetting or learning to use as little information needed to get the right answer?
that's what i was thinking too. we've known this from neuroscience for a while. i at least remember learning this from at least 5 or more years ago. the general idea being that forgetting is an evolutionary advantage to help consume less conscious memory/processing. but there's always the chance that i'm misinterpreting this particular finding.

edit: was going to add another comment, but i've forgotten it now. something about how this is related to what neuroplasticity is. the brain getting rid of connections that aren't being used

innsæi

means "intuition" in ancient icelandic