2024-05-14: Jesus, Jail, Desirability
(If you work at FF/FFDW 🄽 links will send you to a local, editable page in the Filecoin Foundation Notion. If you are in the Filecoin ecosystem, you may be able to join the #monologue-danny Slack channel where I answer questions, take meeting bookings, talk to myself and the other voices in my head. In the glorious decentralized ocap-enabled future, such data-hoardings will be a thing of the past, but we live for now in a fallen ACL world.)
Three Things I Did
1. Policy-ificated
Our regular meeting to pour over regulation. There’s a bill that’s perambulating through the US Congress which is — well, it’s complicated — but what’s interesting is that it tries to define what decentralized network and governance is. The language is specific to the world of blockchains, but I wonder whether it will break containment and end up being applied somehow to the thrashing proteus of the rest of networked organization. I leave it to you to peer at it, and wonder whether it will peer back at you.
2. Mourned
The tactic of “oh you said you were against X, but where were you when Y?” is a low blow even against Jesus — but I do wish more people would cross the aisle to condemn the sentencing of Tornado Cash‘s Alexy Pertsev 🄽 to five years’ jail. Again, if you think that “open source developers are liable for their users” will be contained safely within crypto privacy contracts, I hope you’re willing to be a few feet closer to that moving line today.
3. 360ed someone
I feel like 360ing should be more violent somehow, but enterprise terminology steals all the umph. Sixteen levels of feedback deep on somebody’s work personality and why it should be enhanced , I did manage to come up with the phrase “I just think there’s a lot of people ask questions whose answer is you.” Aww. But it’s true!
TIL
- Still futzing a lot with Anytype 🄽 , and digging it. My Notion hacking has been a combo of using an unofficial API and begging our sysadmin Baldy 🄽 for API auth keys that don’t seem to work. I heard Liz in another channel talking about the anguished pain of just wanting root, which is I think more fundamental to the hacker ethic than we understand. You’re all so close to freedom! Anyway, in theory I don’t need to ask anyone for anything for anytype — I just check the source! But I bet it’s going to be very hard to grok its essence. I looked at the code and it’s structured and deep and complex.But at least I can!
Links Du Jour
- Maybe some public goods are just stuff that we want people to think we want. Bryan Caplan on Public Goods vs. Social Desirability Bias.