/grin

There’s an essay (a book?) to be written about how the volume of writing and the speed of production on the internet has made *all* language more imprecise.

So much of communication today has nothing to do with the meaning of words themselves, but of the things *around* the words: emojis, caps, context, etc.

I’m a Gwern. He liked one of my tweets once, I’ll never forget it 🥺

post a picture of you from a different era

This week's prompt: How have you grown as a person in the past year?

(Quote cast with your reflection by Sunday to be eligible for a 5 USDC reward!)

devs deal with complexity by building layers of abstraction: simple and hard at the bottom, with layered complexity/subjectivity on top as needed. our social structures should do the same.

there's a seminal legal paper on why property law keeps vacillating between clear, objective, predictable rules (crystals) and flexible, subjective, discretionary interpretations (mud): http://i.grin.io/crystals-and-mud.pd...

whats special now is that you can have both: crystalline protocols for the objective, with rich subjectivity built on top. like a credit card on crypto rails -- you can use the card if you want chargeback protection or use the blockchain directly if you want an irreversible tx. most humans want the credit card, but direct protocol access is vital for e.g. disruptive startups, novel legal structures, Canadian truckers.

this was not possible before. US law can only have one setting on the hard<->subjective spectrum.