Contemporary Action Theory, Volume I (Individual Action) is concerned with topics in philosophical action theory such as reasons and causes of action, intentions, freedom of will and of action, omissions and norms in legal and ethical contexts, as well as activity, passivity and competence from medical points of view. Cognitive trying, freedom of the will and agent causation are challenges in the discussion on computers in action. The Volume consists of contributions by leading experts in the field written specifically for this volume. No comparable volume currently exists.
TIL.
When I first started to learn about bitcoin, I read this
It was then that I suddenly realized exactly what had led me to pick up programming when I was young, and to continue studying every aspect of computing I could lay my hands on. It was the notion that a computer could make me smarter. Not literally, of course – no more than a bulldozer is able to make me stronger. I thirsted for a machine which would let me understand and create more complex ideas than my unassisted mind is capable of, in the same way that heavy construction equipment can let mediocre biceps move mountains.
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8and was hooked.
Used to be at best indifferent to computers, all the while dumbly praising cars 'because it's a tiny bit of freedom in this world'. Now I've realised these machines can help us fully regain our sovereignty. With the help of course, of the other people 'in bitcoin'.
That is almost inevitably where technology is leading. Costs are on a steady downward path and eventually things will be so easily accessible that you'd have to be beyond retarded to go down some fuckwit path that could risk your livelihood in a world of abundance.
Sure, there's still likely going to be classes of people, as there are always those that push in any specific direction much more rigorously than others. But that's perfectly fine and nobody would even think of making an issue out of it when the bottom of the barrel can satisfy all their relevant material desires and thus stay in perpetual distraction of the results of their laziness.
Let's not forget that even many poor people (in a proportion I am unaware of) are living far better than kings did not very long ago already.
