It’ll let distributed groups of strangers collaborate on things with more transparency and without such focused points of failure. Could be creating art, running a charity, running a business venture, etc.

True and that’s a usecase of blockchains. I don’t see how DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) would be created without them and I think that concept is worth exploring.

Uh huh. Meta is totally not Facebook right?

Oh? You’re not arguing that a centralized lender (DeFi) that offers borrowers no legal protections, and can do any number of things that are illegal in relation to standard banking practices could be a good thing?

I’m not gonna pretend to know if DeFi is more efficient than existing banks/credit card processors, but I think there’s a chance that allowing customers to borrow and lend without the banks taking a cut COULD increase productivity over an entire economy.

But *pushes glasses up bridge of nose* Jessica, not being a Reverend Mother, would not have had regular (or possibly any) exposure to spice in her Bene Gesserit training, and Paul was obviously new to Spice in the film, even though he had similar psychic abilities to Jessica (which meant that she wouldn’t have needed…

Ferguson is actually about the right age for that, if you assume that Jessica became Leto’s concubine in her early twenties or late teens. Same for Oscar Isaac at 42 - he’s old enough to plausibly be the father of a teenager.

Or to translate from corporate bullshit...

As I see it there’s 3 core reasons

As to why it would make sense to create an AI based off of one who has literally declared herself dictator of the galaxy _and_ has actually achieved the control to some degree, I couldn’t tell you.

People really zero in on this as a problem but I’m personally not convinced it is. To me, what matters is the illusion that your choices matter. Good writing can make it seem like they do without actually having to diverge too significantly along a branching narrative path.

It’s not Amazon’s goal to make an educational tool on the problems of capitalism.

You’re sidestepping the concept/issue.

It would be interesting to see an MMO where income was distributed according to which players claimed ownership of the most land or the largest number of resource nodes (and those with a favorable position could use that position to extort an even greater ratio of resource nodes), with the majority of players given…

Yes, we have moved past that. Because the actual implication is that it’s a very inefficient and troublesome system.

Boy it sure sounds like a stretch to characterize the takeaway of this article as “pro-cpitalism” when there’s such descriptors used as “the economy is busted” and “This phenomenon presents a potential disaster”.

So let me get this straight...

Shutting down is also an emotional reaction.

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