Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

Don't forget the mine shaft gap, which seems to motivate most of the crypto currency frenzy. On 1/10/18, 08:24, byfield wrote: genealogy, from the 1957 Gaither Report's 'bomber gap' to Stiglitz's 'knowledge gap,' says a lot about how deeply militarism has pervaded # distributed via : no

Re: Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

Dear Olivier, Really, people don't know what Facebook is? Holy cow! Happy new year out of FB! :) Frederic Neyrat 2018-01-10 11:49 GMT-06:00 olivier auber : > Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of > Research in Artificial

Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of Research in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. >From Olivier Auber, researcher, Free University of Brussels (VUB) Dear Yann as a researcher as you are too, but in another area, that is Natural Intelligence (NI), I would

Re: managerialism

Hiya, I traced the different versions of the intermediate class from Henri Saint-Simon's early-19th century Industrials to Charlie Leadbeater and Paul Miller's 1990s Pro-Ams on page 28 onwards in The Class of the New (OpenMute, London 2006). You can download the pdf from the link at the top of

Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

On 10 Jan 2018, at 5:18, Prem Chandavarkar wrote: The move from an underdeveloped to developed economy is described as a gap in resources, but it is much more of a gap in knowledge Free markets are praised as being efficient. However, markets are not efficient in promoting innovation and

Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

Just looked up my notes from a lecture by Joseph Stiglitz which I attended in July 2016. Some key points: Sustained economic development requires a learning society Western economies started the transition into a learning society in the 1800’s. However, this has flattened out towards the end

Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

On 2018-01-09 22:25, Joseph Rabie wrote: Their is a blind belief that capitalism and the market are one and the same, but this is not so. Markets have existed for as long as there has been specialization of labour. Capitalism is a modern mechanism, invented to enable certain forms of

Re: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

> Where there’s a funder, there’s necessarily a shareholder. Otherwise there’s > no accountability. The problem with shareholder accountability is that it is, in principle, uniquely concerned with profitability. The eventual taking into account of all other issues, such as working conditions,