Quote from: dinofelis on May 04, 2017, 05:51:04 AM

Quote from: the_end_is_near on May 03, 2017, 07:24:15 PM

I have already stated upthread that my hope would be to only engage you on a decentralized forum wherein I could "edit your posts" for brevity and "delete" your insolent posts when they are accusing me of being deluded

Visibly your "insolence meter" is asymmetrically calibrated.

As I already wrote, the group leader/expert should moderate asymmetrically when the subject matter is perceived to be insolent to group's mission or thesis:

Quote from: the_end_is_near on May 03, 2017, 05:24:34 AM

One hundred expert moderated groups will trounce a one-size-fits-all totalitarianism and socialist least common denominator clusterfuck. The reason Medium is succeeding is because all the important people post there, including for example superstars such as Nicholas Taleb.

Experts refuse to waste their time having discussions where they don't have sufficient moderation control in order to keep the discussion on point of the expert's group focus.

Even I am proposing to improve upon that, by having all moderation actions be entirely optional to follow since all the data remains immutable on the decentralized blockchain.

Quote from: the_end_is_near on May 03, 2017, 01:47:32 AM

But entirely the point is that we should have a common hub for discussion but allow different groups to prioritize/filter what content they don't wish to interact with. So that everyone can co-exist in the greater economies-of-scale of a common nexus of activity without forcing all users to the least common denominator.

You'd be welcome to go lead your own group else stop being insolent to the astute thesis of the group expert:

Quote from: the_end_is_near on May 03, 2017, 07:24:15 PM

Quote from: dinofelis on May 03, 2017, 12:03:05 PM

You're intense, haughty, insolent skepticism/pessimism/fatalism about the (lack of) importance of blockchains and Bitcoin yet my point as a visionary has always been to not miss the exponential change that humans can't detect in its nascent stages wherein for example aliasing error (remember the broken clock example upthread) would cause someone to presume that Bitcoin and blockchains are only about unregulated illegal activities, gambling and speculation. I think you're going to be eating humble pie at the rapid transformation of the importance of Bitcoin and blockchains over the coming years.

The timing of technological revolutions coincide with some key enabling factor. For example, the Second Industrial Revolution (mass production in factories) was enabled by the First Industrial Revolution (e.g. steel fabrication). Szabo has written extensively¹ about enabling factors of the Second Agricultural Revolution and the subsequent industrial revolutions. The Internet made possible and even necessary to solve the problem of decentralized consensus, i.e. blockchains. This is a technological revolution in its nascent stage which is going to significantly transform the world.

Quote from: dinofelis on May 04, 2017, 05:51:04 AM

This is probably one of the reasons why you end up banned from online social interaction here, which, from an intellectual point of view, can be regrettable, but which, on the side of politeness, is understandable.

There you go again with your aliasing error. You form batshit insane conclusions from point samples, as if you looked up at a stopped clock at 6am and 6pm and concluded the clock was functioning properly.

I have no problem in a social setting when I can remove the riff-raff trolls from the conversation I am participating in. Either I am leading that group or I find the group leader's moderation to be agreeable to me else I don't participate (and that is why I no longer participate in BCT). I already explained that this forum doesn't allow one to effectively form groups:

Quote from: the_end_is_near on May 04, 2017, 12:11:29 AM

Unfortunately the Ignore feature of this forum doesn't work very well. It continues to show me the blanked out posts of those I Ignored and replies to those I ignored. I want an Ignore feature that erases you entirely from my view, so you can't come back to haunt me when someone I don't Ignore decides to reply to you. It is an unfortunate feature of this forum that is subjects us to trolls we don't want to have to deal with. That is why for example, you won't see an A-lister such as Eric Raymond posting extensively in a forum where he can be torn to shreds in a battle of attrition by 100s of anonymous newbie trolls who want to take pot shots at the top dog.

Instead it is a one-size-fits-all least common denominator clusterfuck wherein we have paid trolls like @jonald_fyookball writing delusional nonsense as follows:

Quote from: dinofelis on May 04, 2017, 08:33:46 AM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on May 04, 2017, 12:09:20 AM

a huge number of sock puppets. this guy literally loves to talk to himself.

Why are you on a forum where there are essentially, to your view, only two participants: "you and your sock puppets" and "us" ?