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amazing, you should start a youtue channel

even taking this at face value, what's to stop central authorities from using this technology to create a kind of financial panopticon?

it's either immutable or it's not

in order to do what? to bring what about?

to what end?

I love the concept of "almost immutable" databases

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a bunch of apps that do what?

surely a deluezian would say that a drum machine does not even need to be turned on

clever in what sense? bc the second part of this sentence does not make it sound clever

a global infra for what exactly?

what makes you think it's non-dystopian? that is certainly not my impression

you could say that about anything, war or murder or nuclear holocaust. if its bad, you want to avoid it

if the only use case for crypto is financial speculation, for example, then crypto is basically worthless from the POV of its social contribution

however the problem for deleuzians and the deluezian vision of the future can be seen from the analogy with drum machines, which is that drum machines need to be programmed. it's not simply about what the drum machine can do but also what the operator of the drum machine can do with it

deleuze therefore appears to be the pre-eminent theorist of digital capitalism / techno rationalism, predicting the dominance of "AI" and the ascendancy of the machines.

heidegger thinks of Nietzsche as the ultimate end of western metaphysics but it seems to me that deleuze is a further step in its trajectory, representing no longer simply the will to power as an end in itself but now as the dissolution of the subject into the "will to will", with culture as an...

it would be very surprising if there were no use case for crypto, bc that would imply no one is using it, whereas in fact they obviously are. it's easy to think of use cases for crypto, eg speculation, personal enrichment, embezzlement and no doubt many others. it's more interesting imo to ask...