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Yeah, except a good portion of the errors made in those 200k years at least had the excuse of being new.

Blockchain stands apart as repeating every single problem the financial system solved over the last 300 years

Forgetting then repeating the mistakes of the past is yet another long standing hallmark of human beings. In every age, in every place, the deeds of people remain the same.

Turns out civil society (i. e. laws, courts, institutions, economics, shared fictions of value, and trust) cannot actually be replaced by an...

An algorithm. A new religion. A new social theory. A new lifestyle. A new understanding...



This comment sounds like Erlich Bachman on Silicon Valley.


Is he cynical about human progress?

I've never seen SV. After I was assaulted over an iPhone project and complicated living situation, my ophthalmologist urged me to watch it. I actually stayed in a place billed as a "Hacker Hostel" when I first got to San Francisco. There is indeed a lot of fodder here for someone like Mike Judge.




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