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« on: April 03, 2014, 12:19:40 am »
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Personally I'm not that fond of the IQ-test as some kind of metric for humans. Even though I'm supposedly part of the top 10% I don't see myself as particularly intelligent. I also find the questions asked during those tests very limited in scope and hardly conclusive.
Also if the barrier to entry is a high IQ-score, than that might be a serious problem for mass adoption and success.
Sorry guys I'm not getting it.
What is this post supposed to say?
We should call a DAC a DAC?
A long explanation why we shouldn't use mining?
Or is it just a way to explain The DAC concept?
No.
This thread was about the problems and confusion that occurs when we try to think about and explain the new concepts and technologies that are being developed. And that we need metaphors to get into the subject, eventhough the metaphor is not an accurate one.
One such metaphor is in fact "DAC" (something you could think of as a distributed autonomous company, but in reality is something completely different, but we do not yet have the words to describe adequately), that was chosen to ease people into a new concept/world. But at the same time there are dangers to using metaphors, because people might take them literally. For example naming your crypto-currency "fuel" for contracts, which results into having to pay environmental tax for burning fuel and needing licenses for handling hazardous substances.
Then I pointed out that the use of Star-Wars and Star-trek references might not be clear to everyone. To which Stan pointed out, that we should be open-minded and alert to all cultures (very liberal interpretation by me). To which I responded that it might not be a bad idea to map out culturally different points of view, which seems to touch on the topic of this thread.
The only thing I understood from Numericos post was, so you'll have to ask him to elaborate/translate.
I say that if Grandma can understand what you are trying to explain then you are doing a great job at explaining something. The easier it is for someone to understand a new concept the less resistance to it they will have. That leads a faster adoption rate.
If we are introducing trustees then this is no longer decentralized exchange.
Does it seem to anyone else that V-man and Hoskinson seem to be all over the place? Are they ever going to develop this Ethereum concept of theirs or just keep talking about it? And does anybody understand at this point where they're getting their funding?