--- Log opened Sun Apr 13 00:00:40 2014 16:16 < conseo> hey 16:16 < conseo> my irc client was broken for some time, now it works again... 16:17 < conseo> mcallan: what is your status? anything new from thomas? 17:17 < mcallan> hey c. myself i'm just finishing up that essay (adding credits to you and thomas for helping with the impl)... 17:19 < mcallan> thomas was proofreading it, and we were speaking about that 17:30 < conseo> ok. is it about autonomy? 18:06 < mcallan> yes, but not explicitly. the topic is worded in terms of 'steering' (see my latest to list) 19:14 < mcallan> how are things with you, c? 19:27 < conseo> They can explore many paths 19:27 < conseo> simultaneously; so that, if a given action does not reduce anyone’s freedom to act, then it can hardly re 19:27 < conseo> - 19:27 < conseo> duce the likelihood of eventual success. Success depends on opportune discoveries to which the formal 19:27 < conseo> theory is blind. Therefore the optimum strategy for the blind strategist is to maximize everyone’s freedom 19:27 < conseo> of action. 19:28 < conseo> i can see how you span the collective rationalisation process in the myth metaphor 19:29 < conseo> kants construction of reason is very boring (and in some ways wrong) imo, but you span the totality for the rationalisation process in an interesting way 19:29 < conseo> i have tried to practically realize that quote a bit more 19:30 < conseo> the reddit clone is now running on a p2p votorola/git-inspired repository system 19:30 < conseo> which automatically syncs and is eventual consistent 19:31 < conseo> http://shelf.polyc0l0r.net/ 19:32 < conseo> i did this to build such distributed software, to make votorola's concepts more hackable and embeddable in the workflow of applications 19:33 < conseo> also to fix the data and mirror it automatically as was needed by vote mirroring and in many other places like remote drafting 19:33 < conseo> it needs some work still, especially in load-balancing and authentication, but i guess you can imagine that XD 19:36 < conseo> in case you are interested, the software is here: https://github.com/ghubber/geschichte the docs are a bit outdated because the doc generation tool throws exceptions at me atm. 19:38 < conseo> by using a browser in the very client with full access to (a local selection of) data, can commit and diverge at will and merge later when he or she wants 19:39 < conseo> it also makes the clients faster because all data is cached, technically it has many benefits and layers of abstraction can still be broken by e.g. using a single server-peer as a committer (like db transactor) 19:39 < conseo> then you get a consistent system 19:41 < mcallan> i'm surprised (pleasantly!) because i thought u were no longer working on that 19:42 < mcallan> i'm sorry but the light is fading and i must go for a run... 19:42 < mcallan> will reply properly tomorrow 19:42 < conseo> ok, nice run! 19:42 < conseo> sure 19:43 < conseo> no rush 19:43 < mcallan> ok (thx), till 2morrow --- Log closed Mon Apr 14 00:00:57 2014