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- "I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens." And now, in his most improbable guise yet, as artistic director of the 2010 Brighton festival, Eno wants to programme works that demonstrate why surrender is key to the sort of music and art that excite him. "I came to this idea because I noticed that when I set up ... See more
from Surrender. It's Brian Eno by Stuart Jeffries
- + Network effects of success — When a record is broken, a hit happens, or breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene. This empowers the scene to further success.
from Scenius, or Communal Genius by Kevin Kelly
- Centralized trust creates negative externalities even when those at the center remain trustworthy. As the market expands, a purely person-to-person approach breaks down and would necessitate the presence of intermediaries. Intermediation, on the other hand, serves many roles, but also imposes costs, especially when the intermediary is a private com... See more
from TRUSTING A TRUSTLESS NETWORK. The Paradoxes of Trust in Blockchain Technology by JENA MARIE ESPELITA
- Technology, however, is creating trust between the unlikeliest of characters, even in the nefarious world of the “Darknet” – an encrypted network of secret websites that allows the exchange of illegal assets such as drugs, stolen financial data, and firearms (Reiff, 2020). The great oxymoron is that it is populated by hundreds of thousands of vendo... See more
from TRUSTING A TRUSTLESS NETWORK. The Paradoxes of Trust in Blockchain Technology by JENA MARIE ESPELITA
- “Meaningless” is how some people put it. It’s just too easy to peek under the hood and realize there’s no master plan or final destination.
from callings by Molly Mielke
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“And Suits offers the following definition of what it is to play a game. He says, “To play a game is to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles for the sake of making possible the activity of overcoming them.” …And the way I think of [games] sometimes, after S
... See more- On a blockchain network, nothing is assumed to be trustworthy except the output of the network itself (Werbach, 2018). On any transaction, there are three elements that may be trusted: the counterparty, the intermediary, and the dispute resolution mechanism (Botsman, 2017). Simply put, blockchain tries to replace all three elements with software co... See more
from TRUSTING A TRUSTLESS NETWORK. The Paradoxes of Trust in Blockchain Technology by JENA MARIE ESPELITA
We need a new “epistemic currency,” common to everyone. Fortunately, one already exists, and it’s more fundamental than facts: Trust.
from Epistemic Reserve Notes by Mike Elias