Each generation decrees that what its predecessors built was racist, and sets about planning something new...
First there was "slum clearance", later euphemized as "revitalization"
Then grids of public housing grew out of fashion, and planners discovered "mixed use" developments
Lately there's been a fetish for "organic spaces" with Old World fractal dimensionality
Maybe planners will realize that the trapezoidal blocks and cutesy alleys that they take Instagram pics of on vacation will just "happen" if they step aside
But how many guilds voluntarily disband?
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Listening to an Amy Chua book lament that capitalism has only let a few crumbs fall to the world's poor
While literally driving by African cow herders on their smart phones
Even if it were true, which it is not, that capitalism mostly enriches the rich, Steve Jobs' table scraps did more for an entire continent than it did for itself in 10,000 years
Chua argues that ethnically homogenous China's lack of economic persecution is the exception that proves the rule of "market dominant minorities" catalyzing their own extermination
Uhhh, there was this thing called the Cultural Revolution...
2\ A distributed network is only as safe as the cost to attack it, which means that miners/validators must be paid to be honest by users via transaction fees and/or seigniorage (inflation)
Crypto fans don't want inflation so let's assume Musk's dream coin will only have fees
3\ Let's also assume we want a $100B annual security budget. That's 2.5x $BTC's current security budget (but still paltry compared to the US' $700B military spend)
Musk proposes 100x more transaction throughput than $BTC, or ~10B transactions per year
There are many types of personality, but only one type of intelligence
What would it be like to live in a world reversed: a single personality, but many intelligences?
I still see modish pieces about "fluid" vs "crystallized" intelligence. Apparently fluid intelligence is just g in disguise, and crystallized is just picked up by culture loaded tests?