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The Cartoon Guide to Löb's Theorem
VAuroch8y10

I don't think I've ever used a text that didn't. "We have" is "we have as a theorem/premise". In most cases this is an unimportant distinction to make, so you could be forgiven for not noticing, if no one ever mentioned why they were using a weird syntactic construction like that rather than plain English.

And yes, rereading the argument that does seem to be where it falls down. Though tbh, you should probably have checked your own assumptions before assuming that the question was wrong as stated.

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Torture vs. Dust Specks
VAuroch8y10

Why?

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Bitcoins are not digital greenbacks
VAuroch8y00

That would make it a terrible at being a medium of exchange or a store of value, though, wouldn't it? No one knows how much it's worth, and you have to acquire some, pass it off, and then (on their side) turn it into currency every time you use it.

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OpenAI makes humanity less safe
VAuroch8y00

Will only matters for green lanterns.

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What's up with Arbital?
VAuroch8y70

Inside View much?

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What's up with Arbital?
VAuroch8y100

If you can't succeed without first getting mass adoption, then you can't succeed. See the 'success' of Medium, and how it required losing everything they set out to do.

If Arbital has failed, Arbital has failed. Building neoTumblr and hoping to turn it into Arbital later won't make it fail any less, it will just produce neoTumblr.

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What's up with Arbital?
VAuroch8y80

Arbital has vague positive affect from being an attempt to solve a big problem in a potentially really impactful way.

Yet Another Blogging Platform, without the special features envisioned originally, is not solving a big problem (or actually any problem), and has a maximum plausible impact of "makes you a bunch of money and you donate that somewhere". Re-using the name is a self-serving attempt to redirect the positive affect from the ambitious, failed, altruistic project to the mundane, new, purely-capitalistic project.

Why aren't you just admitting defeat and going on to build something different?

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What's up with Arbital?
VAuroch8y140

It seems disingenuous to call this new project Arbital.

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What's up with Arbital?
VAuroch8y180

I agree with Christian. Did Arbital ever even come out of closed beta? My impression was that it did not, and you still needed to be whitelisted to have the chance to contribute.

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I Want To Live In A Baugruppe
VAuroch8y20

Absolutely, would move immediately. Inconveniently I am currently at the "impoverished App Academy student" level.

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