The Prime Number Maze And The Limits Of Human Cognition

A pseudonymous economy defends you against disruptions to your social networks.

Just as your bank account is your stored wealth, your real name is your stored reputation. Pseudonymity insures against unjustified debit to that reputation. 

• In a country, for example, voice is the votes, and exit is migration. So you can vote with your ballot, you vote with your wallet, or you can vote with your feet.
• Voice versus exit is this interesting dichotomy: do you try to reform the system or do you exit it and build a new one or...

Instead of making appeals to people to look past gender or race, or to not cancel and discriminate online, we make it impossible to do that by taking away that information entirely with realistic avatars and fully functional pseudonyms.

People are adopting search-r...

• It's Zuckerberg's Facebook but you can't name the career bureaucrats at FDA. That is unaccountable power. They get no coverage at all. 
• There is accountability when there's a face and name that go public, but these folks do not want to go public because they enter a political and me...

• Longevity has the potential to be to traditional medicine what crypto is to traditional finance. It changes the terms of the debate.
• Conventional medical wisdom is that untimely death is bad, but that life extension is unrealistic or undesirable. So a "little d...

• In technical truth, Wikipedia is great, but on political truths, it's like a defamation engine.
• Google just pushes Wikipedia links to you and then people "well it's in this Wikipedia, therefore, it's real".
• They should just allow people to delete their profil...

In the world of political truth, as we know it, the fundamental thing broken about the government is that we can't easily and peacefully start new opt-in governments and startup governments.

Basically, you can start a new company, you can start a new community, and you can ...

And alternatives enable reform.

When a system is calcified enough, you simply can't take it head-on. Instead, you get to the exit, you build a better alternative in a new domain, and you set a better example — thereby reforming the recalcitrant by ta...