Ian Clarke on Freenet

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I was told that this is considered a "thought crime". 

My comment: 

I have some questions:

1. A decentralized system is by default fragmented, out of the box, as it were. Do you have any protocols for network identification? The idea is that a user would like to have some reasons to believe that they're connecting to a genuine network, not a spoofed one, and that they are connected to the entire network, and not just a jail where they can see everyone else and no-one can see them, or where all their interaction is mediated by some man-in-the-middle.
2. Distributed updates can overlap, so do you have any protocols that can help to establish a total order on some class of events? This is related to my previous question. 

See HVM2 Interaction Combinator Evaluator and note at 6:49 the property of interaction combinators. From Higher Order Company:


See also Yves Lafont - Interaction Nets The Movie.

32:18 On using AI to  "get up to feature-parity" with "the Internet". Don't do that! See Melinda Lu - Functional Distributed Systems Beyond Request/Response. Don't even try to match functionality, because the business models are garbage so you will just be emulating garbage.

This is important, because almost everything people do on "the Internet" is driven by commercial developments that only happened because there was a profit centre that could attract capital investment to pay for it.  That is an inherently centralised process and the centre is completely arbitrary. This way of developing technology is below sub-optimal, it's pessimal. See Indy Johar - Civilizational Optioneering.

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See http://thetednelson.com/geeksbearinggifts.php

My comment:

What is the idea of "specifying in JSON"? So that people don't have to learn any more syntax? That was the idea of HTML, to make parsers and validators easier to write. It didn't work. But what will work is designing user interfaces that are based on grammars and have deep syntactic structure. If the user interface itself knows the grammar, then it can be programmed to provide prompts that help the user navigate the structure. It's interesting how the term prompt got turned around like this so quickly. I think there is a dark motive behind this whole thing, which is to disempower people. 

See Richard Clegg Explaining What's Wrong With Computer Science.

See Einstellung effect: it explains a hell of a lot!

See also W. Patrick McCray on his book Readme.

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