Greg Lang

@designheretic

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This is everyone’s fight—if Roman is defeated, open source devs will be in the crosshairs for what criminals do with the code they write This isn’t just an attack on the scope of the First Amendment’s protections or on the innocent open-source privacy toolmakers, it is an assault on the very notion of individual freedom, dignity and self-ownership—it is a scope-limiting attack on possible futures that precludes the advent of those in which tyranny is impossible Please help if you can—not just for Roman’s sake, but for the sake of everyone alive today and everyone who will be born in whatever future we create Freeromanstorm.com

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Chapter 10: Implications and Strategies – Navigating the Recursive Trap

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Chapter 9: The Basilisk Effect – Knowledge as a Catalyst for Intervention

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Chapter 8: Privacy and the Right to Look Away (Part 3 of 3)

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Chapter 8: Privacy and the Right to Look Away (Part 2 of 3)

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Chapter 8: Privacy and the Right to Look Away (Part 1 of 3)

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Chapter 7: Intervening in Technology – Progress Perils and the Seeds of the Basilisk

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Chapter 6: Intervening in Nature – Ecology Environment and the Myth of Control

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Chapter 5: Intervening in Society – Unintended Social Consequences

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Chapter 4: Economic Interventionism—Markets, Incentives and Mises Warning

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Chapter 3: Philosophical Perspectives—Knowledge Ethics and the Will to Intervene

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Chapter 2: Recursion and Complexity

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Chapter 1: The Universal Law of Intervention

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I’ve generated an audio version of the book—stay tuned, will be releasing first here, one chapter at a time. 🫡

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I will never—ever—stop using em dashes until someone invents a more appealing alternative that only uses up one character Here’s why they’re awesome: • dashes and en dashes feel cramped and have other technical uses that make them both ambiguous in how they should be read • comma-spaces are asymmetrical and so to my eye are ugly • Other alternatives that create the same amount of space take two or three characters to tap out…are visually far more distracting…and read like too-long pauses by comparison I am not an AI—filtering for these will just filter me I hope this isn’t already happening—here on Farcaster or anywhere

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Unpopular opinion: em dashes are the best—and attempts to conflate them with AI output in algo ranking is an aesthetic preference masquerading as an automation detection heuristic

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What’s the practical (as in: setting aside technical) difference between CBDC and stablecoins with mandatory KYC for end users? I see only one—CBDC issuers can’t pretend it isn’t being wielded in service of power to exert control over the behavior of its users, while stablecoin issuers may chose to do so.

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Farcaster Pro LFG!!!

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Anyone ever flown one of these? About to take her out for a spin 😎

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