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This looks like a good companion piece to Robert's post on this topic:

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/enabling-a-decentralized-world

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For sure Margaret! We saw that and were soooo happy and excited to see Dr Malone talking about this problem. He for sure felt the power and greed of centralized systems as he and others tried to challenge them. I wish they had a better way of decentralizing their efforts!

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Politics: “A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Don’t confuse republicans with conservatives. Vast majority of Repubs want big government. How are progressives decentralizing anything? They want state control of everything and possibly just a few mega corporations that they’re in bed with

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Neither of them are but the left has been using some decentralization techniques with more vigor lately. Nothing of real substance though yet

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uh, not around here! conservative is pretty much what most republicans believe in my area. Certainly, urban areas are lots different though.

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Dec 6, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Yes, we share the same vision. I hope that you can help promote the idea of restructuring all governments from vertical to horizontal. Here is an animation I made in 2020 explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8

It goes with this video that explains how most governments are subverted, corrupted, and controlled by "economic hitmen": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilxI6Dgoy8

Horiz. governance trumps economic hitmen. It closes the entrance for them. Please spread if you agree.

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We need to have like minded people like you and us working together. There are elements in every plan that need to be discussed, but that comes from collaborating. Thanks for the feedback! We will check these ideas out!

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Progressivism vs Conservatism. One believes in the state(centralized), the other believes in the individual(decentralized). The progressive march through the institutions has been completely discredited. Took over a 100 years though. Free markets are the best regulatory mechanisms ever devised. Time to bring it on back!

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I would say conservatives have not done a good job decentralizing at all, and maybe are just coming around to the idea of transparency. The exact opposite is true with the Progressives.

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

If you want to check out what the original idea for bitcoin can turn into look into the Qortal Project (qortal.org). Local wallet, low power, true peer to peer, smart contracts, blockchain secured chat & websites. Exchanges are only used as on/off ramps from the qortal ecosystem. NEVER leave money in an exchange, pass through only!!!

It's got a ways to go but they've made great progress in the 2+ years since their roll out.

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I keep all my bitcoin in cold storage. Truly decentralized

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

That's the only way to do it. Local wallet under YOUR control. If you want to sell 1 then put just 1 on an exchange and sell it then immediately move the money off the exchange.

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In case you did not see on my other post - https://www.carousel51.com/#carousel-integrated

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Sounds interesting. Please give us a one sentence summary.

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Nov 19, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

Aristaeus.Club is a decentralized truth telling club in its infancy. The Purpose of the Club

To gain and maintain a monopoly on truth to rule the club.

To design, maintain, and promote a more perfect voluntary society for the people to thrive on Earth peacefully.

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In our opinion we don't need to define truth. Rather, we need to demand transparency. Transparency is truth. Transparency is trust.

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Who decides the truth?

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All governing duties, word definitions and standards will be kept static by the Gold Club members. If anything needs changed in the future, 9/13 gold club members will govern.

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Sounds centralized to me

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True enough. The monopoly on truth, and governance of the club, are centralized by the gold club governing members. The size of the Level III governing truth tellers can be either large or small depending on what works best for the club.

We advocate for a monopoly on truth, and an end to the monopoly on money. We want money to be decentralized by using honest sound money in trades like America was founded on. When the monopoly on money ends, then the power of wealthy to control society ends. Their power comes from the “elastic currency” money monopoly.

Elastic currency: sovren.media/p/222921/b2a181547739ae4cbce06f563bcb9950

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Isn’t DeFi exactly that? An end to a monopoly on money? #bitcoin

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No. Decentralizing money is different than decentralizing currency.

Money comes from the Earth and requires human labor to create it ... it is tangible, desirable, divisible, durable and naturally limited in supply. It does not require force to make it valuable. It requires force to monopolize money. GreatKaan.com

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Jan 8, 2023·edited Jan 8, 2023

The good news is that the tectonic plates are shifting towards decentralization and localization anyway. This cannot be avoided as we no longer have high EROI (Energy return on Energy Invested) energy. Globalism depends on the cost of transport fuel being negligible (planes, 18-wheelers, cargo ships, heavy machinery). That's not the case moving forward. Food, for example is going to have to come mostly from your local community. This may be mostly Mother Nature driven, but unfortunately the central planner idiots in charge can push us over the cliff much faster as they facilitate the destruction of the systems that we all depend upon. They will do everything in their power to take everybody but themselves to war. Historically speaking, the leaders who usher in war/disease/famine are not in charge when the carnage is complete. When this is all said and done, the Great Reset demons with their central banks and their bio labs will be gone as well.

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Epistemic Status: Being written by a 45 year old life-long libertarian/agorist with severe chronic depression, in strong relapse.

Yes, all of this is true, and I've been saying it all for thirty years. And... how the hell do you fight the multi-hydrae'd hydra -- that's like if an octopus had eight fingers on the ends of each of its eight arms, and each of those fingers had a venomous head on the end of it with enough individual and combined processing power in its nervous system to not get in its own way. Oh, and it's the size of a blue whale. What? C'mon, this is *clearly* a magical creature... anyway... -- that runs the system that literally makes the money and then hands it to themselves and uses it to control all of everything else that exists, too? And mostly controls the media that talks about the system. And controls the schools that teach that this is how things should be. And the exponential growth rate is working against us.

Yeah, I sound defeatist. What can I say? I feel defeated. I have been banging on about how the voting system *must* be *provably* trustworthy literally since the '92 campaign season when I was 15 and for whatever reason it really caught my attention about how badly everything was run and how obviously cynical all of the arguments against even making any effort to improve it were.

Even as a libertarian, if a representative government has **one job**, it's to make sure that the people it is purporting to represent are actually reasonably fairly represented, and that the system for counting those declarations of support for one representative or another are "one man, one vote", are handled correctly so that it can be shown that every vote is truly a valid one, and are tabulated correctly.

And here we are, exactly where we are, in 2022. Things have only gotten worse, and most people insist that everything is fine, like the cartoon dog drinking coffee, in the kitchen that's on fire. "They" literally won't let you build your own Twitter (see also: Parler) and if you instead buy theirs, they'll turn around and try to tear it the hell down. (See also: the last several weeks. ;) )

Even as a cypherpunk, I don't see a path to actually winning, or even marginally improving things. :-/

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Sounds to me like you started your crusade before the world was ready for it. The world is ready for a new system now. One that makes the old, corrupted one obsolete.

If you are a cypherpunk, maybe come at it backwards. Have you read this book?

https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/do-you-want-to-know-how-to-stop-the?utm_source=direct&r=7oa9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by The Society of Problem Solvers

No, but I'll put it on the list. :D

And as I said at the beginning of the comment, I *recognize* that I'm in a poor headspace for feeling optimistic right now. So it's probably not as bad as it feels like, but damn I'm tired of playing Cassandra.

For one thing, I look *terrible* in a chiton. :p

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Hey Mek

This might sound like a wild suggestion but have you tried carnivore diet for your depression? It saved Josh, one of our writers. Here is some insight https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/does-carnivore-diet-really-work-for?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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I read that article; I'm definitely interested, but I have to admit that I'm concerned (admittedly, without having yet done any price research; I'm in the midst of moving house) about the cost of such a venture, especially these days.

When I had my midlife crisis and switched from being a Unix Systems Administrator to a Long-Haul Truck Driver just in time for the pandemic, two slices of Pilot / Flying J pizza were $5. Now it's $6.50. If even the crappy stuff they're selling the folks who bring people everything they consume has gone up that much, well, let's just say that I haven't even bothered to look at the price of steak in a while.

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Attaching to beliefs is sloppy thinking. Always keep an open mind. For millenia governments have been subverted, corrupted, and controlled simply by using blackmail, bribes, intimidation and murder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilxI6Dgoy8&t=5s).

Horizontal governance with extreme transparency blocks this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywMhg604W8). Please spread this if you agree.

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If we ignore the hot button issue of “stolen elections” for a second, and just honestly and scientifically examine the current American trust in the voting system, how does it score? Trust is low. When you have elected officials in 2016 saying that the system is rigged when Trump won, then now again the opposite in 2020 and 2022 when Biden and the left win, that says something.

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If we ignore the hot button issue of “stolen elections” for a second, and just honestly and scientifically examine the current American trust in the voting system, how does it score? Trust is low. When you have elected officials in 2016 saying that the system is rigged when Trump won, then now again the opposite in 2020 and 2022 when Biden and the left win, that says something.

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The definition of truth has become as subjective as the meaning of obscenity.

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We don't need to define truth. We need to demand transparency. Transparency is truth.

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I'm not saying it’s a bad idea but a flawed one.

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Transparency is the illusion of honesty.

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No. Transparency is a system in place. It is a way of existing. Transparency isn’t words or even facts. It is just a system.

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For example: We would much rather have transparency in government and allow the people to come up with their own conclusions, than have someone regurgitating their. “Truth” to us.

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I know what it is. And it is not a panacea.

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The only way corruption can exist is with a lack of transparency or a lack of accountability. It is part of the solution, the very first part we need. If we cannot see the problem we cannot fix the problem. It is that simple.

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Correction doesn't only exist in governments, though. A large portion of humans will work tediously to corrupt and take advantage of any system in place.

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How do you stop the big money/tech from influencing the people to do their bidding? Does there have to be a cleansing of the non science based climate medical war pushing academia? Afraid the end game is we just end up with fake decentralization.

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