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by amelius 3466 days ago
Best wishes for Christmas!

And one question to reflect on: why can we build compilers, operating systems, and distributed databases, while we can't find the basic rules of an economy that is well-performing, yet fair to every participant, now and in the future?

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Requirements issue: Because everyone's definition of "fair" is different.

Implementation issue: Designing for wildly complex system of systems with thousands of interdependent and independent variables, with known unknowns, and unknown unknowns is effectively impossible. We can't even parse HTML with 100% accuracy.

Debugging issue: When there are issues, who do you trust to have "root" to debug and fix it?

Bottom up deterministic media vs persuading group consensus. Difficult but noble goal.