Quote from: dinofelis on February 03, 2018, 01:52:39 PM

My core idea is that the Singularity is unavoidable, but I never figured out how machines would do it. I think crypto is the answer.

Quote from: dinofelis on February 04, 2018, 12:43:45 PM

I already told people: the long version is free, for the short version, you'll have to pay. I didn't have time to be short.

Quote from: dinofelis on February 04, 2018, 01:23:15 PM

It is not my "inability". It is my lack of desire to waste time on being succinct. I can be, but it takes time and effort I don't want to spend on a forum. I already spend too much time on it, I cannot spend 2 or 3 times more.

Quote from: dinofelis on February 04, 2018, 03:45:03 PM

Have you ever read, say, an exposition of general relativity ? How many pages do you have to acquire, follow explanations, fill in gaps the author left, think through what the author is saying, not being quite sure that you're with him, before you actually start understanding the argument ? Compared to that level of difficulty, "working through my walls of text" is leisure in a blink of an eye. People not capable of doing this, can probably not reason on a sophisticated enough level to even start being useful.

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If you tell me that the few people capable of seeing that, are elsewhere, then one must conclude that the amount of brain power here is too low to be of any sensible use in the development of any form of advanced argument. That's also a possibility of course.

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dinofelis, I admit that my brain is no match for your advanced argument. Indeed, I am certain that none of the regulars on this forum has a brain capable of operating on the level of yours. I grant you all thanks you are owed for your having been so magnanimous as to grace us with your presence. Please, do not waste further time here. Go forth to seek the company of like-brained people. Just remember to give us a wave (a particular wave) when you are accepting the award to you of the Fields Medal, or whatever; and please tell the Singularity to go easy on poor, be(k)nighted old nullius, nobodys man.

Now, this started as a most excellent thread on the topic of the Lightning Network. I know, I admit, it is a characteristic of our brains that we need thoughts concisely organized and focused. Be that as it may. Does anybody have anything further to say about the Lightning Network and the metaphor of unicast networking?

I will make explicit a specific question I earlier implied: Are the Lightning engineers availing themselves of the fine research literature on network routing protocols and routing algorithms? If that could be answered off-hand by anybody whos been following Lightning development much more closely than I have, Id be much obliged.

Thanks.