Re: <nettime> Never Mind the Bitcoin?

[Kenneth Fields <kfields@ucalgary.ca>]

I want to LIKE this one.
Where’s the like button on this nettime thing?
If there’s anything ripe for disruption, it’s religion.
What IS religion without the middle man/institution, but a contradiction in terms.
So not p2p, but p2g-od?  God is replaced by Bot - that never manifests… 
Now that would certainly be easy to implement (not a bug, but a feature).

Priestbots would serve as the voice of the never seen/heard/manifest OneBot.
Here we use AW algorithms (artificial wisdom).

Looks like another all nighter. I should have it up and running by morning.
Created token GODBOT/GBT, 10,000,000.000000000000000000.
Recommended Spirit  (gas) = 0.000001 Gweist
Consensus algorithm: POP (Proof of Presence).

Ken


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> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:41:53 -0800
> From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>
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> Bitcoin successfully hijacked a sizable amount of public belief, which 
> underwrites any fiat currency, and it doesn't get more fiat than Bitcoin.
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> This is continuation of the phenomena of machine amplification of human 
> activities; machines do it better and faster. Socializing, sex, 
> education, transport. It's just that now they are getting into more 
> esoteric class of activities ... beliefs. The next is probably love, and 
> I'd be surprised if in few years we don't get new machine-mediated 
> religion which will engulf the current manual ones. Now, that's the 
> startup worth funding!
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> This is not necessarily 'bad'. We are finding out what our primitives 
> are, uncluttered by inefficient rituals.
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