In my previous article [1], I posted a short story about the hypothetical last day of the Turkana Boy [2]. …
Author: Donald McIntyre
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Chama the Turkana Boy
Suddenly Chama heard the loud screams of an old woman. They seemed just like the scary sounds his brother Keh …
Bitcoin’s Legal Hyper-Textualism
In American legal philosophy, there are several schools of thought regarding judicial and constitutional interpretation. The main arguments revolve around …
Using Genetics and Brain Capacity To Model Reality
There are many constraints in reality. For example, objects with higher mass have more gravity than objects with lower mass; …
Why COVID-19 May Have Higher Male Mortality: Android Obesity
[Updated on December 28th, 2020]
More or less 40% of the US population is obese [1]. Obesity contributes to multiple …
The Flaw in John Rawls’ Second Principle
This Is John Rawls’ Second Principle
Second Principle [1]: Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions:
a. They …
Lingering Ethereum 2.0 Concerns
On July 2nd of 2017 I sent some friends in the blockchain industry an email with my concerns about Ethereum …
Final Comments on the Implementation of MESS on Ethereum Classic
Below I transcribe my final comments on the implementation of MESS (Modified Exponential Subjective Scoring) on Ethereum Classic (ETC).
The …
Ethereum Classic Protocol Compact 2020
The following is the text of a pull request I introduced into the Ethereum Classic (ETC) Github repo as a …
Why Ethereum Classic Should Not Adopt Modified Exponential Subjective Scoring (MESS)
This article is a response to a comment about using the Modified Exponential Subjective Scoring (MESS) system on Ethereum Classic …
Proof of Work in Nature
Proof of work technology [1] is the key component in the Bitcoin [2] Nakamoto consensus mechanism [3]. It is a …
Why Isn’t 0 a Natural Number?
Why isn’t 0 a natural number?
Because natural numbers can be mapped to objects. For example, the number 3 can …
Information Theory and Prairie Dogs
1. I read that, due to base noise in the universe, computer chip parts emit signals when an energy threshold …
Inequality Is Acceptable Provided There is Justification
People don’t care if A, B, or C billionaires are such as long as they worked their butts off making …
Ethereum Classic Principles: To Not Have Principles
As an interesting case study about blockchain principles, Ethereum Classic (ETC) has suffered incredible instability, not because it hasn’t worked …
Bitcoin Will Likely Migrate to Bit Gold When the Time Comes
If there has been a bad omen this dramatic year 2020 has been the unanimous consensus; in the United States, …
Ethereum’s Significant and Undeniable Achievement: Proof of Work
What follows is an email I just wrote to Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum. I did not edit grammar nor …
Evolution of Social Structure
All through human history, prehistory, and all the way back to the origin of Homo, around three million years ago, …
Ethereum Classic Simplicity
This article is largely a response to Charles Hoskinson’s video titled “More on ETC’s Treasury Idea” posted below:
To the …
Why Ethereum Classic Should Not Create a Treasury
In light of new reorganization attacks that caused several double spends on the network, and a subsequent discontent with development …
Art Evolved as a Security Device
If art is information, and animal urine territorial markers are information, then primitive art developed as a form of delineating …
The Origin of Logic
When searching for information about the evolution of logic [1], I found curious that all accounts were limited to human …
Origin of Life: The First Replicators
Given the advanced state of life processes we observe today, it is difficult to figure out the evolutionary cause and …
Learning From the Quiet Master — Nick Szabo
A Hail Mary Email
I consider myself a fortunate man who, from a hail Mary email in August of 2015, …
Evolution of Sexual Reproduction
In this essay I present a model that describes how sexual reproduction may have evolved.
Understanding this evolutionary process is …