Decentralization as natural selection Expensive adaptations (large brains) don’t evolve w/o survival pressure from environment. Popular decentralized systems evolve when governments want to install filters: copyright (BitTorrent), anti-money laundering (Bitcoin), content (Tor)
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Human brains may have evolved this far b/c we compete to outsmart other humans. Runaway evolution compared to adapting to hunt animals where there is an end. Likewise, peak decentralization would emerge in the most adversarial government conditions. Tech vs tech. True cyberpunk
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Real hacking is months of research. Boring to watch, not flashy. Likewise, “lowlife and high tech” IRL is more cypherpunk than cyberpunk. Ambitious experts building resilient systems for years. Average Joes reading reddit tutorials on how to buy BTC, install Tor browser, use PGPhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1016163344678453248 …
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Check out how centralized Second Life was stopped allowing banks opening branches in 2008 by the US Secret Service. Now decentralized High Fidelity can't be stopped.
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@d10e_conference I often speak about the analogies with the P2P scene and refer to Napster and Grokster https://youtube.com/results?search_query=d10e+david+orban …
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