Yash Mimani aka ahafisher

Well, if we can develop a decently complete symbolic discourse language, it should be possible. (Yes, every contract would have to be defined relative to some underlying set of “governing law” rules, etc., that are in some ways like the built-in functions of the symbolic discourse language.)But what would it mean? Among other things, it would mean... See more

- Pavlovian use case of pre-sleep routine, hence embedded as consumer software product with very high post 1 year retention

- Government power and governance

- Prefers direct democracy over representative democracy

- Vision for government on Mars

- Need to roll back government power increased in covid

How should we think about symbolic discourse language compared to ordinary natural language? In a sense, the symbolic discourse language is a representation in which all the nuance and “poetry” have been “crushed” out of the natural language. The symbolic discourse language is precise, but it’ll almost inevitably lose the nuance and poetry of the... See more

- Lack of ways to give away money effectively

“Silk Road doesn’t really sell drugs. It sells insurance and financial products,” says Carnegie Mellon computer engineering professor Nicolas Christin. “It doesn’t really matter whether you’re selling T-shirts or cocaine. The business model is to commoditize security.”⁠