volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
@wjmaggos but therein lies the problem :)
How does the server know what the user would consider crap vs what they want?
And even harder, how does the server deal with two different users having vastly different judgments about that?
This is the problem with focusing on servers.
It's exactly why I think we should rather focus on users, letting them control what they see, based on what they would find to be crap vs wanted content.
@HeavenlyPossum selfless?
Whoever said selfless?
No, it's even better, it's an alignment of interests.
No need to rely on selflessness that might disappear from day to day.
Sure: people continue to find value in Bitcoin, which is why they trade for it.
Can't really say there much of a market for buggywhips, though.
That's exactly how Bitcoin works: I trade some amount of energy for a chance to score Bitcoin.
That is the definition of mining.
In other contexts--car fuel efficiency, lighting efficiency, whatever--there are more externalities and complications, but not in this case.
The way Bitcoin works allows people to buy the chance to earn in exchange, directly, for energy.
Each miner decides whether it's worth each 1kWh he might want to spend on it.
@abucci what? I'm referring to them foregoing immediate benefit for the sake of a project for greater good.
That's the whole point.
@MugsysRapSheet that's a bit of cutting off the nose to spite the face, though.
SpaceX does good work in support of NASA's service to the public, so the public would lose out should those contracts be canceled.
I wouldn't want us all to lose out over an unrelated dispute like this.
@dalfen but don't cut the quote short.
It's hard enough to make sense of Trump's verbal spew, but the rest of the quote does change it a bit.
Oh, it's worse than that: it's not that the parties have failed but rather that they have successfully promoted candidates that their members wanted promoted.
The parties are successfully capturing how bad the public has gotten.
@LALegault @DavidBruchmann @micchiato@mastodon.social @GRA3432 @YakyuNightOwl
@snscaimito maybe helpful: You know how a webpage might look different on your phone than on a laptop screen, even though it's the same website?
It's similar with Fediverse.
Each program (Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc) displays and engages with the same Fediverse content, but they each display the content in ways that make sense for their particular goals and users.
So in this case it will be up to Mastodon to do its best to take whatever content has been posted--the image here--and display it as best it can.
@wjmaggos but this is where I promote the idea of giving users more control over their own feeds, so that servers aren't so central to figuring out one-size-fits-all policies for all of their users.
Different users will want that balance set differently, so we should focus on letting users have controls over their experiences.
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@HeavenlyPossum I'd never equate value with efficiency, so I don't know why you're going down that path.
But my point is that so many DON'T consider the output of the process.
The energy that people are choosing to trade for Bitcoin is exactly a measure of the output.
Gates innovated the mob tactics of protecting his IP religiously? No, that's not how that works in reality.
In reality, the same governments who provided that free computer time also provided the IP structure and restrictions on usage of ideas.
That's not up to Gates but to our active support and reelection of the politicians who implement those policies.
We get the government we vote for as we keep reelecting the same types of folks with the same bad ideas.
@Wolven @hosford42
@jchyip it's funny how even the HuffPost quotations don't match the headline
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Other way around. He started this by banning QOTO without cause (And justifying it) across all the servers he hosts. I called him out for lying and abusive practices. Since then a bunch of people stepped forward presenting evidence of his abuse.
He is now retaliating regarding the fact that I called him out.
@brinnbelyea@fosstodon.org Why do they value crypto? Who cares! Fact is they do value it for whatever reason, and there you go.
Why do people value super bowl tickets or VHS recordings of old Seinfeld episodes?
People are weird. But that's just how people are.
@generationX exactly, see how he didn't suggest it?
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
The goal of Bitcoin is not to be cheap, just as the goal of a bar of gold is not to be cheap. The goal is to provide value, and when it comes to Bitcoin the value is often expressed by the exchange of energy for Bitcoin.
You're talking about efficiency but missing that the amount of energy that people trade for bitcoin is the direct measure of its value, not a measure of its processing power or anything like that.
Would you consider a gold bar inefficient because it costs a lot of dollars to buy? That would be a silly metric. And same with bitcoin: it's pretty silly to talk about the energy that people are trading for Bitcoin as if that is a measure of the efficiency of Bitcoin.
No, it's not a measure of inefficiency since the point of the currency is not to minimize energy usage. That is simply not a goal of the system.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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