Ad hoc heuristics for approaching complex systems and the "unknown unknowns". Techne & episteme. Verum ipsum factum. In the words of Archimedes: "Give me a lever and a place to rest it... or I shall kill a hostage every hour." Rants, share-worthy pieces and occasional insights and revelations.
22 Jan 2020 5 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
I wrote a quick post about Urbit on Cent awhile ago and here's something that unexpectedly surprised me: So, I've heard about Urbit here and there bits and pieces, but only just now realized that it had been conceived as far back as 2002 by none oth...
21 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Just stumbled upon these really insightful, spot on articles on modeling cryptoeconomic protocols as complex system - part 1 and part 2. And the paper mentioned therein, "Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems". Excellent introduction to the matter th...
21 Jan 2020 7 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
This is related to my previous post "Re-inventing Democracy: Quadratic Voting, Futarchies and Liquid (Delegative) Democracies". Concepts such as quadratic voting are given explanation there. The below is one of the crypto-political initiatives out th...
21 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
This one is I believe particularly relevant and quite the scourge in many ways. Also known as the "is-ought problem" and first articulated by Scottish philosopher David Hume, it states that many claims are made about what ought to be, based on statem...
![Hume's Guillotine: The Is-Ought Problem [Useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thought/critical thinking]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/100165.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=8ba57503dbb695dfda72a08783eb819d6d9c203cc44c2874fe5a198f586a6d70)
21 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Occam's razor (novacula Occami) is a sense-making/problem-solving principle attributed to 13th century theologian and scholastic philosopher William of Ockham which states that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity" (or "plurality must...
![Occam's Razor: Law of Parsimony [Useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thought]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/100146.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=f0fe940ed5c356ba799751e3b1557d0f34f28b847e2ec569088fba2d79af5781)
21 Jan 2020 5 minute read 6 comments rhyzom
Ulex is an open source legal framework for what has come to be known as polycentric law. States and governments generally have monopoly over law (hand in hand with the monopoly over the use of violence and force which is the essence of the state a...
21 Jan 2020 4 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
Integral to IOTA's enterprise is a ternary microprocessor for large scale distributed computing called Jinn. Most digital technology today operates on binary logic circuitry, zeroes and ones (on/off), while IOTA aims to introduce a balanced ternary t...
20 Jan 2020 1 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
Prediction markets are exchange traded markets dealing in event derivatives or claims contingent on the future outcomes of events. As a forecasting meta-tool they are useful in encouraging, aggregating and quantifying widely scattered expertise in a...
17 Jan 2020 8 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
This is from my series/collection of useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thinking (previously was a post giving a quick description of the Cynefin framework). This one concerns the perception and approaching of meaning (semantics), something t...
![E-Prime and the Structural Differential (General Semantics) [Useful conceptual heuristics and critical thinking devices series]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/97633.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=c0fea9b088417c8b67da80764ecd2679cd94233fd4c513901a4120216eaf9bec)
17 Jan 2020 2 minute read 9 comments rhyzom
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis published a report on the 15th saying that it has traced $2.8 billion in Bitcoin being sent by criminals to crypto exchanges throughout 2019, with the bulk of the transactions going to Binance and Huobi. "While e...
