> (He's at George Mason University, which is a right-wing think tank, and has to say stuff like that to get tenure.)
Hanson was an extreme libertarian long before he got tenure or joined GMU, or even before he invented prediction markets.
Hanson was an extreme libertarian long before he got tenure or joined GMU, or even before he invented prediction markets.
My interest in Xanadu has just dropped a few orders of magnitude.
He tried to architect a system to do this, and it was insanely complex. It had strong internal consistency requirements, so it wouldn't scale out or parallelize well. It had explicit links all over the place, which was how people thought about databases back then. They were combining the application logic and the database architecture, which resulted in a horrid mess. Today we know to decouple those. Github is built on top of a key/value store. Wikis are built on an SQL database. Works fine.
Eventually, in 2014, there was a working demo of Xanadu. Here's a view of religion in Xanadu format.[2]
[1] http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf [2] http://xanadu.com/xanademos/MoeJusteOrigins.html