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ForkLog 64 15.04.2024

‘The market is a computer’: how Friedrich von Hayek reached that conclusion

The publisher Individuum has released the Russian translation of philosopher of science Matteo Pasquinelli’sMeasure and Impose: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. ForkLog publishes an excerpt on Friedrich von Hayek’s connectionism and the debates over the role of computing machines in a market economy. Data: Individuum. Neural networks as a model of the mind How […]

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ForkLog 69 29.01.2024

The Invisible Hook: what pirates can teach us about economics

American economist Peter Leeson belongs to the cohort of the Austrian School whose professional formation coincided with the global crisis of 2008. The Great Recession exposed the soft spots of the global market and created demand for radical alternatives. Among them were Austrian ideas, which helped, among other things, to give birth to cryptocurrencies. In […]

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ForkLog 22 08.12.2023

Blockchain, DAOs and Game Theory: The Basis of Dan Larimer’s ‘True Democracy’

A review of More Equal Animals: The Subtle Art of True Democracy, by the creator of the EOS blockchain and the Bitshares exchange.

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ForkLog 51 25.11.2023

On acceleration: what e/acc is and how it could have influenced Sam Altman’s dismissal

How 'effective accelerationism' split the AI research community.

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ForkLog 42 30.10.2023

What is universal basic income—and what do cryptocurrencies have to do with it?

Can universal basic income tackle inequality, and what role does the crypto industry play?

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ForkLog 25 24.03.2021

Vitalik Buterin sees potential for NFTs to become a public good

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are seen as a "celebrity casino," but they could find use in socially meaningful ends such as charity and funding public goods, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

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Chess Ex-Champion Garry Kasparov: Bitcoin is Natural Choice in Fight Against Human Rights Violations

Former chess champion and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov has called Bitcoin and blockchain technology “very natural choices” in the struggle against human rights violations, Forbes reported on July 23.

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ForkLog 173 30.11.2016

Labor as Value: Classic and Contemporary Labor Money

The history of labor cost theory is very ancient. People have long ago concluded that any product requires some time and work long ago. And, the more labor and time the product creation takes, the more valuable it is, and the higher is its cost.

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ForkLog 157 28.08.2016

Humankind Evolution: Liberté, Égalité, Chaîne de blocs

These days, blockchain ceased being a mere computer technology with limited scope of applications, but a sort of a philosophic concept applicable anywhere in human society. In particular, it may be successfully implemented in state building and reformation of both governance systems and the society in general.

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ForkLog 116 27.07.2016

If There Was No Blockchain, It Would Have to Be Invented

This article was written by philosophist and member of Russia’s Futurology Association Alexander Boldachev exclusively for ForkLog.

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ForkLog 209 13.07.2016

Bitcoin as a Feminist Weapon

Gender differentiation today looks outdated and uncourteous in today’s society, not because there are no differences of that kind, but because depriving people on that basis is aÂ mere nineteenth century. Some people just tend to discriminate others, but they’re inconsistent, and choose the most illogical concepts from the bunch of coal-and-steam ideas, even though they […]

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ForkLog 114 21.06.2016

BitFury to Eliminate Corruption With Blockchain Technology

Full service blockchain technology company The Bitfury Group has joined forces with the non-governmental organization the National Democratic Institute to form the Blockchain Trust Accelerator Initiative.

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