This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,917 for Tuesday the 8th of August 2023.
Today's show is entitled, Response to Permission tickets by ONF Spones.
It is hosted by D&T and is about 7 minutes long.
It carries a clean flag.
The summary is, hopefully a useful provocation and response to a recent intriguing show
by another HPR host.
Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
This here is a response to 3909 called Permission tickets by ONF Spones.
This was a really good show, very well written, not too long, and one of Spones says
it's a preview show for some future self-referential tangle of cryptographic distraction,
which sounds great.
I just wanted to, I was typing a comment and then it was kind of getting long, so I decided
to record a response show and then you may notice that I was on Hacker Public Radio just
a couple of days ago in tomorrow or something I would be on it again, and that was because
I had a scheduled show and then one show came out of the reserve queue and then I'm posting
this as a response show and I'll talk a little more about that later.
Anyway, so the show by ONF Spones was very good, very interesting stuff.
I really recommend you listen to it and it's very much in line with the previous shows by
that host.
It's always been at this kind of standard and I wanted to talk about just one part of what
he's talking about here and that is, for example at the end here I'm looking at the whisper
transcription. It says, so as a disclaimer, if it wasn't clear at the beginning, if you recognize
that someone who exchanges a bunch of money for a bunch of cryptographic tokens is essentially
holding next to nothing at all, then you are halfway to recognizing that someone hold
who holds a bunch of money is holding next to nothing at all.
What they need is to convince somebody to exchange or to swap for the permission tickets which
they have acquired in quote, that's very good too many crypto fans don't recognize even that,
but I would like to point out here that there is actually one very important difference between
these crypto currencies and state-backed currencies and that is that within that state, it is legal
tender in one of the primary ways in which this manifests is that the state accepts it as
for tax payment. So that's kind of the number one thing that gives state-backed money, it's value,
right? It's not just that people will accept it and this seems to be something that a lot of the
crypto fans don't seem to remember. So the thing about that is that we seem to in the 21st century
to be kind of in the habit of destroying things that we already had and then just rebuilding them
in a less good form and then we're just stuck with this downgraded form of the thing that we actually
already had. We just didn't realize that we were just rebuilding the same thing,
only not as good as the one that we had before, right? This happens, I think I'm going to put in the show
notes this episode of the Harper's podcast where they discussed the writers strike here in the
United States, the Hollywood writers strike and they kind of touched on the idea that, you know,
these streaming services, they kind of destroyed the traditional TV industry in the US based in Hollywood
and they really didn't actually make anything new. They were simply allowed by the state
to destroy the industry that already existed and they just basically dominated it and replaced it
with an industry that's just much less equitable and according to the person that was being interviewed
on that podcast, this is now reflected in this strike. So I think we should be wary of situations
in which we make, we kind of fool ourselves into thinking that we're innovating, we're building
this new thing but really we're just replacing you with within inferior version of something that we
already had, not because the thing that we already had was necessarily good but just because we
suffer from a pretty overwhelming lack of imagination. All right, so that was my comment on the show
by one of spoons and before I posted this, I went on Matrix on the Matrix channel and I raised
this idea because I already had shows on the calendar so we try to stick to only one show every
two weeks so that nobody can kind of dominate the main feed but I kind of raised the idea that
maybe response shows should be exempt from that because it's kind of nice for you to appear in the
in the main feed pretty close to the show you're responding to and also maybe that's a good
way to fill slots you know to we have the reserve queue when there's an unclaimed slot very close
to the date it's supposed to air so maybe another decent way for hosts to fill slots is to
record a response show like the one I just did. Also personally I'm a fan of these of conversations
and this can be kind of like a play by male conversation where each participant in the conversation
will only speak after several days so with this I invite one of spoons to write to post a comment
on my comment or just post that upcoming show about the the tango of cryptographic something or
other so that could also be a good way for a new host to post their first show you know if you have
a comment about a show or thoughts about a show which undoubtedly you do from time to time
maybe it can be a kind of a simple way to post your first show by sort of remixing or
starting from somebody else's show and what did you think about that? I think I would like to hear it
hopefully this was useful thanks again to one of spoons for the show I'm looking for a
that was very good very well done thank you and now please come back tomorrow for another exciting
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