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Privacy is explicit (as you note here) AND implicit. In fact most of the time we secure and propagate the contextual social norms we refer to as privacy without thinking about them. It is then more of a contextual systemic quality than anything individualistic. You have reminded me though of the following, which I think is by Edward Snowden. As I recall from memory ... Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
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Claiming my @socialtoken airdrop and crediting @tryptamic for his insights into homoiconicity.
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I find that understanding of marketing can vary way beyond what it actually is. "Broadly defined, marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others. In a narrower business context, marketing involves building profitable, value-laden exchange relationships with customers. Hence, we define marketing as the process by which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return." Source: Principles of Marketing [ISBN: 9780273711568]
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While I couldn't help but riff off "smart" here for comedic effect (no seriously, some of my jokes do actually work), it's critical to recognise that most people don't spend their lives thinking about the privacy ramifications of various technical protocols and architectures. It's on those of us who do.
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When @df writes "a single smart wallet controlled by the canonical wallet for the chain will be used across all apps on the chain", one wonders if the wallet would be smarter than the corresponding person. The Cypherpunk’s Manifesto asserts: “Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.” It’s very hard to do that when you present one (or one dominant) wallet / identifier to the world.
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Most people are not early-stage investors. We're now intent on raising pre-seed from actual early-stage investors. Their investment will provide validation and of course the working capital to ensure the product comes to market and becomes an everyday app everybody loves. 😍 NFTs-with-benefits may then make a whole heap more sense. Watch this space! And of course if you know pre-seed investors who will love everything on addresso.com and who will want to learn more, please don’t hesitate to make introductions. Thanks again.
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It’s been a few weeks since our last update, so let me fix that. You’ll recall we were exploring the sale of NFTs-with-benefits as a fundraising mechanism. The Addresso product and vision and the prospective NFT sale brought you here and others to our Telegram channel … and thank you for that 🙏 … but we now believe the fundraising idea has legs only further down the track. Quite rightly, anyone looking to put down an ETH or three will want reasonable confidence that the future product + service will be worth multiples of that over time, and perhaps more to the point confidence that the product will actually be launched and nurtured in the years to come. And as everyone can do math, one would ask oneself — how likely is that on a couple of hundred grand ($US)?
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We are at Devcon and would love to chat with anyone interested in our research program. Stress-free funding for teams and individuals working on hard problems to improve our ecosystem. https://blueyard.medium.com/announcing-the-blueyard-dyor-do-your-own-research-funding-program-9be5f2f23d37
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Nicely put @polynya. Ayn Rand must take a lot of the blame. Or perhaps more accurately, those who still subscribe to her reductionism despite the weight of knowledge revealing it for what it is. FYI, @tudorizer is referring to https://generative-identity.org
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way. (Aristotle) The living world holds answers for us to create a more resilient, regenerative, and beautiful world. It is time to quiet our cleverness, to observe and listen deeply, and reconnect to nature’s wisdom by asking, “How does nature solve this?” (AskNature.org)
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Many focus on the technology and the information security. But the topic at hand is sociotechnological (focusing on the technology alone cannot work) ... And information security is not a synonym for privacy despite the frequent conflation. And such things lead to emergent outcomes that are undesirable.
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The computer science paradigm of identity is largely incompatible with social science's understanding. Computer science strives to make things legible to the system. It's drenched in bureaucracy. The social sciences investigate conditions for human flourishing, good mental health, cooperation, etc. I write about this at some length here — https://generative-identity.org
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Definitely huge. But not I think in a net good way. As I said to a couple of the co-organisers of Crecimiento a few months ago, Argentinians will love you for this for the first few years, and then come to despise you.
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Can I point you this peer-reviewed essay I wrote on the matter: https://generative-identity.org/human-identity-the-number-one-challenge-in-computer-science/
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Stephen Wolfram references Hofstadter in a recent (and yet another brilliant) blog post. Worth checking out if you love a bit of recursion, and if perhaps a New Kind Science sits on your bookshelf next to GEB. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/09/nestedly-recursive-functions/
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Our cyborg selves are always changing because our assemblages are dynamic. In the not too distant they will for example include contextual (inter)personal AI agents. Not separate from but integral to.
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If your use of "real" in "real person" @0xluo.eth denotes actually existing AS A THING, something you can prod, then this corresponds to a bureaucratic conceptualisation of a human being. One body one person. But human life is mostly non-bureaucratic. Human identity can be considered an environmentally-distributed and relational construct rather than merely a psychological or biological phenomenon. Alice can no longer be described or understood solely in terms of the biological, psychological, and social. Today, she is an assemblage including information technology. Her sensing, her sense-making, and her actuation are digitally enabled. She is cyborg. I don't mean that in the Hollywood sense of having a robotic limb or two, or perhaps x-ray vision, but rather that a good part of the information flows and processing on which she relies in sensing, making sense of, and acting in the world are digitally mediated. These are essential living processes (Capra & Luisi 2014).
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Whenever anyone mentions reputation in the digital context let alone web3, I always ask the question — what could go wrong? If they don't spend longer answering this question than the time they invest bigging it up, they don't understand the topic sufficiently.
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Just archived the passwords to the Slock-it and the-dao Slack channels. Don’t think I’ll be needing them now 😆
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KYC appears to be contagious. You might enjoy … https://generative-identity.org/reusable-kyc/
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