Last night I tried to describe the rationalist community to a friend who had never heard of it. I struggled, but finally settled on describing it as "A school of philosophy that arose on the internet rather than in the academy."
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crypto is the other clear example. Bitcoin was born on the cryptography mailing lists and here we are today
Sorta. Chaum's work, public key crypto, hashing etc - none arose on the internet. Later ideas - especially proof of work - did.
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Yeah this is very good point
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