Quote from: mprep on May 03, 2017, 11:45:39 AM

Quote from: Proof of Bullshit on May 03, 2017, 05:16:25 AM

@mprep
Why are you even wasting your time on this person. He doesn't have a life! This pointless argument can go on forever and just wastes your precious time.

I was just having some fun. Considering his last response, I feel my work here is done since it's no fun discussing with someone who not only keeps repeating himself but also ignores any explanation to his inaccurate accusations. Guess this month's "poke the pompous prick" carnival ride broke and I'll have to wait for the next one.

Enjoy the inane, centralized control privilege that enables idiots (janitors who produce nothing and only burn books) to obstruct production, because the end is near of that nonsense clusterfuck arrangement. It is a typical behavior these days of debt-funded, socialism, entitled Westerners (especially high prevalence amongst the Millennials youth) to whirl away their time on lolz activities which produce nothing-at-all. Men have turned into females wherein they pay more attention to attitude than who can produce the most and wage war most effectively. I wrote that I don't really blame you for being a predicament of the dominant cultural and centralized technological paradigms, although self-responsibility dictates you will be victim of it if you don't find a way to break out of its deleterious effect on your brain.

I stumbled onto Szabo's Law of the Dominant Paradigm, and it is a reasonable conjecture and explanation for the value of the groupthink which is apparently enforced by Bitcoin's moderation policies as cited by @mprep.

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

Seriously, I'm really not Shelby. He's much more expert that I am, but he's also much more deluded than I am (and he considers me an idiot, which he would never think of himself).

Since our debate/discussions got cut off by the ban, let's make this 100% clear so as to set the foundation for any future discussion between us, such as if we continue on any future decentralized forum.

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 based on your unfalsifiable and unprovable theory of the confirmation bias you allege I have due to my investment of my effort over the past years in blockchain research and my Bitnet project. As I explained, these moderation actions would only appear for those who had chosen to have their forum client software follow me as a moderator. All your posts would remain fully intact on the blockchain, and any reader could view them if they want to. So in no way would I propose a system wherein I could censor you, yet if I am a popular moderator, I can influence you to structure your discussion to be more concise and to avoid adversarial ad hominem allegations that can't be falsified. You've demonstrated a tendency to jump to false confidence, which requires great effort on my part of unravel all the details necessary to point this out factually. It is too much of a distraction from the main work I need to be doing, as you have also acknowledged as quoted below wherein you are encouraging me to focus on "do your thing".

We both have a high intellect; and I detect that your broad knowledge base is likely greater than mine considering you're probably an academic. Whereas, my highly specialized (maximum division-of-labor) knowledge base in blockchains and consensus algorithms is more high-end state-of-the-art than yours at the moment, simply because I've been intensely working in that area for past years. For example, before the mods cut me off, I was planning to explain why your conceptualization of proof-of-stake is incomplete or flawed. But that is another intensely detailed discussion and frankly it would be better to do it on the Bitnet forum wherein we want to compare the Bitnet consensus design to other technologies such as PoW and PoS. So actually it is better I got cut off for the time being, so I can focus on coding, not talking, debating, and explaining.

You're intense, haughty, insolent skepticism/pessimism/fatalism about the (lack of) importance of blockchains and Bitcoin (as well the similar insolent, haughty attitude that refuses to admit the possibility of a future worsening banking and economics crisis in Europe) is a major turnoff for me, because for example similar myopia presumably (most certainly) existed at the dawn of the Internet and the Great Depression and its ensuing Holocaust. You'll attribute my reaction to the confirmation bias you allege I have, 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.

Your closed-mindedness (abuse of Occam's Razor and skepticism towards all major transformation, except for your religious devolution to Kurzweil's Singularity fatalistic sensationalism wherein man is destroyed) is a major turnoff for a visionary personality like mine. So any use of the word 'idiot' as a poor/lazy (need for concision) attempt to summarize the above, is more or less about aliasing error due to your personality traits. Whereas, although I do have a visionary leaning confirmation bias, I am very much open to facts which invalidate my perspective or theories. I have a very open-mind always receiving new data points and re-calibrating.

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.

That I put this much effort into clarifying this for you, means that I do acknowledge your high intellect, but it frustrates my interaction with you, that you combine that high intellect with a disrespect for the seriousness of my blockchain work (and thus you feel it is appropriate to consume my time on verbose diversionary debates as your recreational activity) and a haughty, fatalistic perspective on the fate of mankind. Szabo explained that the Singularity requires that the maximum division-of-labor be invalid. I was trying to explain this you before in our prior discussion on the Singularity. You have a high intellect but a very haughty, fatalistic, myopic, near-sighted, aliasing error bias. We necessarily can only exist in a relavistic universe, and thus there can't be any all encompassing superior intelligence. Any reference point which you try to use to compute your surety of the coming absolute superiority of machine intelligence is invalidated by the chaos of non-local hidden variables of in the unification of quantum mechanics and General relativity (macroscopic mechanics) via the relavistic quantum mechanics theory. Moreover, mankind exists because mankind perceives his existence. If you remove mankind, then perspective that creates the existence of the world that we currently perceive to be reality, will no longer be.

P.S. my Theory of Everything blog actually points out that time travel is realistic when we become purely information, i.e. there is some unification yet also contrast with the Singularity concept. Had to put that on the back burner for the time being. We really need to dive into relativistic quantum mechanics in future when the urgent blockchain work is completed. Note my health issue is fading away rapidly now, and is no longer a hindrance. I'm approaching age 52 in June, yet for the first time in years I did consecutive days of 12 x 75 meter 100% effort sprints. My former 4.5s 40 yard dash speed is coming back. Also I am feeling the crazy power to go out and want to run more sprints after 30 minute of rest. I had completely lost that during my TB infection. I have such crazy power coming now that I've been trading LTC non-stop for the past week or more without sleeping much more than a 1 hour cat nap here and there. And then go out and run 2kms following by 12 sprints without any sleep! That is what I was before the TB. My crazy intense athletics is back so I don't need this forum any more. I have an outlet now to release/satiate/regulate my high levels of dopamine.

¹

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2013/11/european-asian-divergence-predates.html
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/06/trotting-ahead-of-malthus.html
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-conjectures-and-facts-regarding.html
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/06/agricultural-consequences-of-black.html

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

To Shelby: go and do your thing now, that's much more important.

Indeed.