@robinsonmeyer@nytopinion did something get dropped in copyediting here? I think you're trying to say (correctly) that rising demand results in lower per unit prices due to amortized servicing costs but the "system costs raise prices [and] drive demand" is backwards causally
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@Melt_Dem this was very explicitly formulated by Nick Land in the 90's (Machinic Desire etc, not an endorsement) and has been pretty widely understood for decades
@slatestarcodex@KTmBoyle scott, I don't expect a reply, I just want you to consider: has the rationalist movement perhaps contributed to the situation which you are describing? nearly every single SV right-winger quotes the codex in the first 5 minutes of conversation without prompting; reflect on this?
@sunny_gonna@thomasoncrypto I think my brain combined the original entropic design with algebraic constructions because of the integer lattice foundational to both
does anyone remember a pre-BTC digital cash project that was based on integer lattices, circa ~2002-2003? no evidence of this existing at all but I think I have a key that signed an early account, please hit me up if you remember even anything close to this (announced on usenet)
@sunny_gonna@thomasoncrypto I think this was it, a lot simpler than I remembered (and a bit later, this article is from 2007 but I think launched in ~2004-2005)
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was not on cypherpunks, was probably on sci.crypt or alt-something, had a strong "buried treasure but you computationally cannot find it" narrative, never got traction b/c no viable mining = no incentive to run a node
@levelsio NL is also currently host to a couple dozen gravity nukes to be deployed by Dutch F-35s and has a pretty nasty post-war chemical weapons industry? I am all for anti-proliferation but this is a weak position to argue from