Category:Cypherpunk

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Cypherpunk is a genre of fiction closely related to CyberPunk. It involves near-future technology themes, but focuses more on cryptography, decentralization, and network theory than on hacking, cracking, and culture jamming (though it often incorporates those elements in less central story lines).

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates - https://old.reddit.com/r/lightningnetwork/comments/10916pl/image_quote_by_socrates/

SJW Take

Emphasis on W.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rareinsults/comments/1gwivap/damn_common_elon_and_ian_miles_l/lyas723/

Its beyond cringe. He lives in Malaysia and profits off creating political division among Americans. Twitter becoming X has allowed someone as dogshit as him to make that a job. I think he’s a grifter too but it frankly doesn’t matter to me in comparison to his “job” being more disgusting than any insane, cringe shit he says

Blue should get paid. Crowdsource this shit. Or, as Metallica said, "Fight Fire with Fire."

Another Angle

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996)

What about a series of videos, maybe weekly. Each one would take one controversial topic and probe its depths. Present the 10 second summary, and the one minute version, and the annotated five minute version. Invite others to critique and expand individual elements.

Maybe something like Wikipedia, but comprised like TikToks and FixedByTheDuets, and curated by pure scien-tists. Timeline tags with collaborative filtering to elevate the most useful.

In The News

Reddit Itself

Post Election 2024

Other

Death of Journalism

Discussion Topics

See Also: cypherpunk/cypherpunk_reddit/doc/story/

  • A discussion whose depth Reddit cannot reach: https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/174n36u/reddit_moment/
  • Market Pricing and the margin between demand, supply, and market price: https://iterativechaos.com/summary/173yrnj.html
  • Twitter Follower Calling: https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/17jsa0z/a_psa_on_privacy_setting_changes_two_images/
  • Cruelty as Idiot Detector: https://old.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1821dnm/how_to_spot_an_idiot/
  • "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."
  • Thematic Media: rogue one, firefly, dungeon crawler carl, v for vendetta, The Expanse, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Snowpiercer, The Hunger Games
  • CypherEmpathyMachinesAndArguments
  • Tamagotchi Streamers: https://old.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/189zbi7/everyone_has_the_mom_subscriber/
  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Acceptance, Glorification, Fragility, Evolution
  • United States Migrant Carrying Capacity (V2)
    • What kind of research data do we have on the cost (~services) and benefit (~labor) of migrants?
    • Are there meaningful trends? Is the data sufficient to make forecasts that significantly differ from current numbers, or are there too many unknown unknowns?
    • They will exist somewhere until they pass on. What are the options and what are the implications in how we support or limit those options?
    • If the cost/benefit is negative, how many per what period can we support for a reasonable cost? Compare to the budgets for other socio-benevolent missions like public defenders.
    • What is the US rate of inbound requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • What is the US clearing rate of requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • What is the global rate of migration and trend? What would be our share based on population, GDP, or GDP/capita?
    • Pull the numbers together.
      • What is the cost per migrant?
      • How many can we support?
      • What is the inbound rate and forecast?
      • What is the net rate and forecast?
      • What knock-on effects should we consider?
  • Migrant V1
    • What kind of research data do we have on the cost and benefit of migrants who request asylum protection?
    • Are there meaningful trends? Is the data sufficient to make forecasts, or are there unknown unknowns?
    • These are human beings who have to exist somewhere until they pass on. What are the location options and what are the implications for our national identity in how we approach those options?
    • How many per what period can we support for a reasonable cost? Compare to the budgets for other benevolent missions like public defenders.
    • What is the current rate of requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • What is the clearing rate of requests for asylum? What is the trend in that number?
    • Pull the numbers together.
      • What is the cost per migrant?
      • How many can we support?
      • What is the inbound rate and forecast?
      • What is the net rate and forecast?
      • What knock-on effects should we consider?

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