It's a great idea with a lot of utility, but my question is: How does dispute resolution work? I.e. How do you prevent bad actors from beating the original artist to the punch, and registering someone else's artwork as theirs on the blockchain?
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While I understand the frustration with the whole Kurzweil camp, this article reads like it was written by an angry high schooler. It also throws the baby out with the bathwater, in that there are clearly valuable analogies to be drawn from computing, as others have mentioned in this thread. My two biggest disagreements:
- "Your brain does not process information": This statement is too broad. How do I do mental math?
- "Memory is not encoded in neurons [as evidenced by a crude drawing of a dollar bill]": Where then does the crude drawing come from?
This seems just as probable/improbable as any other speculation, including (meme joke) "Aliens."
It was even more funny because while I was waiting for the comments to load I was thinking, "This is an awesome tool, but I bet the top comment is going to be some obscure reason not to like it."
Notwithstanding opinions on the merits or lack thereof of abstracting and visualizing concepts that may or may not help your syntactical understanding of algebra, I want to point out that this is A) a brilliant idea and B) a really cool implementation.
Kudos to the developer who spent the time to implement this, and to Brett for putting the idea forward. I hope this gets traction and is continued to be built upon.
I went to this petition hoping there would be a bulleted list of objective criticism, but it's not there. To me this makes the whole argument seem emotionally rather than logically based.
The name here is obv. more important to users than with other apps because it's embedded into the email address. I'd even rather have a nonsensical name than something that makes me sound elitist.
Er.. I get the point he's trying to make here, but I think what he's not seeing is that currencies basically spontaneously emerge out of the necessity of conducting trade. So, sure, you can try to pretend the construct doesn't exist, but you're just closing your eyes to the problem because you don't happen to like it.
Typing this quickly since I'm on a deadline at work, but for those interested in getting started, I set up a quarterly "Meditation Challenge" online group to track progress and keep people motivated by having a group of people and a goal. Myself and people in /r/meditation run it, so it's not a corporate anything, just a public service.
You an add your email and it will notify you when the next challenge starts:
I could talk at length on the subject but I couldn't do it any better than Gopi already has; you should check out "The Real Nature of Mystical Experience"
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Nature-Mystical-Experience-ebook/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopi_Krishna_(yogi)
He was a pretty normal guy living a pretty normal life in the 1900's, and in his 30's through meditation he had a textbook enlightenment experience which resulted in a metamorphosis of sorts that he ultimately came to believe was biological / physiological in nature and could be repeated in others. He's one of the first if not the first person to suggest that what we think of as enlightenment is actually a biological event that the human body can perform given the right triggers, rather than simply a different state of mind or frame of thought. This is a revolutionary idea if you think about it; talk about "hacking the brain". The great thing about him is he's very relatable and not aloof, he kept his job as a government clerk and aside from selling a small handful of books, was clearly not interested in making money off his ideas.
He tried for years to raise interest in the scientific community to study the phenomenon, but of course grant money is hard to come by, and doubly hard if you're doing anything remotely unconventional, so his research foundation never took off and he passed away in I think it was 1981.
A lot of people don't know about him, but they've started putting his books on Kindle so you can go check them out. All of them are extraordinary reads, although I'd start with his prose, and then move to his poetry if you're interested in that.
http://www.amazon.com/Gopi-Krishna/e/B00IPU7XD4/ref=sr_ntt_s...
Edit: n/m, it appears the ice sheets are massive and free-of-friction enough to actually push the rocks around. Cool!
"Gravity and physics say you can’t put a ride an ant Honey, I Shrunk the Kids–style, but who is going to listen to gravity and physics when you can ride an ant..."