>"Jaron Lanier’s old idea of an internet based on micropayments has finally arrived, but it has been transformed into an internet of micro-ownership."
The idea of a blockchain is, a defined protocol (like tcp/ip) where everyone can join the mining pool, accept and process payments. The quickest he processes the transactions, and the more transactions one processes, the more profit he gains. An open global competition for transactions. This trait gives the blockchain network incredible resiliency.
Amazon AWS, Ms Azure an' all, are not as resilient as a blockchain network, because not everyone can join and accept tcp requests. The tcp requests are accepted exclusively by the company's computers.
There are cases, in which we want to be absolutely sure the request will arrive to the destination the fastest possible. I.e an oven we control from our mobile phone. We want to be absolutely sure the oven stopped working, i.e the request indeed got to the destination the quickest possible. The information we want to travel with maximum speed and resiliency to errors, is a paid transaction.
The last point is that with a plain tcp packet the company with the server farm, may choose to eat the tcp packet and not turn off the oven. Modeling the control of the oven, with an oven wallet where we sent the paid transaction to the oven, no one intermediary can stop the transaction we send to the oven, so we have an oven in our house which we can control over the internet, with absolutely ownership of the oven and the control of it.
Everything else of the blockchain technology, like NFTs are following afterwards. This kind of internet, is called MetaNet.
Very true, the vision of the system may alter a little bit, if in the future there are commercial sponsors. Every new version will have to be more conservative, so as not to break compatibility, development will slow down, more bureuocracy etc.
I think the future of education is portraying it as a game, history as a game, engineering as game etc and solving puzzles along the way. Lichess as a platform may be useful in that regard, because a game to be enjoyable doesn't need to have all the fancy 3d graphics.
Actually the statistics of the top players in every country or globally prove me right. Everyone does that. Of the top 100 players globally only one is woman. Men are smarter than women in general, but not that smarter. You can argue all day about the opposite, or downvote all you want, statistics proves me right. Reality is not something we hope for the santa claus to give it to us. Reality is what it is.
My point is that if we make a chesscoin for analyzing chess games, and embryocoin for analyzing the dna of embryos, the second one will prevail because women are more dedicated to that purpose than men are to anything else. That's all.
Well not to wander off topic too much, but someone has to wonder, wall street which is male dominated, is it really doing economics, or maybe they are doing a form of war, a modern warfare? A rhetorical question, i don't have the answer, somebody else may has it. If it is so women will restart the economy by themselves, in some way, by creating a digital coin, embryocoin maybe. Chesscoin would be fun i guess too, but too many male players in chess.
However when i play chess the moment i smell that my opponent is female i immediately start playing more aggressively, and my opponent starts backs down. The statistics of the top chess players do prove me right. I have tried it myself many times. Against female players i don't try to play the objectively best move like usual, i consciously try to make the female player be afraid of their position and they lose by themselves.
Donating CPU time, is one thing unique on lichess compared to other websites. When there is a commercial website, why should i donate CPU for their CEO to put another digit on his payroll?
Considering that ML and chess engines are now only starting, how about making a hybrid model of bitcoin mining and the cpu/gpu cost of analyzing chess games? That way one percentage of the energy consumed of the mining, on bitcoin or whatever, isn't immediately thrown out of the window.
Or maybe making a hybrid model of analyzing the DNA of embryos to find defects, and bitcoin mining for the same reason. One fact not many people know is that economy in ancient Greece, was something women were doing. Men when there was something we wanted, we made wars. I foresee that there will be a digital coin like bitcoin that people will use, and that is gonna start from the women only. We, men, are not cut out like this, exchanging of goods in a peaceful manner.
He may as well be a millionaire in the future. By having a platform that people use you do get a minimal amount of bug fixing and stability of the platform. Lichess is a platform for companies to use it for their purposes with some tweaks here and there it can be an education platform, a platform for engineers to practice the internals of machines and many more possibilities.
Joomla is open source and their devs make so much money selling plugins and widgets. Who is the best man for the job to tweak the platform than the developers who made the open source core of it?
I use lichess everyday for years, the stability of the platform is absolutely top notch. An absolute minimal amount of bugs, no glitches in the website, every page i click on, loads instantaneously. The commercial website Chess24 and closed source, doesn't have "ultrabullet' games, very quick games of 15 seconds, because their platform cannot support it. lol
Endorphins are released for the body to be able to sleep. Exercise helps release, dopamine, endocannabinoids and more, which prop up the mood of the person. Endomorphins or endorphins are released for exact the same reason, doctors used always morphine, to numb down the pain of damage to the body from the excersise, or a surgical operation, or a bullet, and the patient is able to sleep.
The idea of a blockchain is, a defined protocol (like tcp/ip) where everyone can join the mining pool, accept and process payments. The quickest he processes the transactions, and the more transactions one processes, the more profit he gains. An open global competition for transactions. This trait gives the blockchain network incredible resiliency.
Amazon AWS, Ms Azure an' all, are not as resilient as a blockchain network, because not everyone can join and accept tcp requests. The tcp requests are accepted exclusively by the company's computers.
There are cases, in which we want to be absolutely sure the request will arrive to the destination the fastest possible. I.e an oven we control from our mobile phone. We want to be absolutely sure the oven stopped working, i.e the request indeed got to the destination the quickest possible. The information we want to travel with maximum speed and resiliency to errors, is a paid transaction.
The last point is that with a plain tcp packet the company with the server farm, may choose to eat the tcp packet and not turn off the oven. Modeling the control of the oven, with an oven wallet where we sent the paid transaction to the oven, no one intermediary can stop the transaction we send to the oven, so we have an oven in our house which we can control over the internet, with absolutely ownership of the oven and the control of it.
Everything else of the blockchain technology, like NFTs are following afterwards. This kind of internet, is called MetaNet.