phyzix576116 minutes ago
If anyone is curious, like me, what Cypherpunk means:
"A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change."[0]
slybot6 minutes ago
Funnily, this small library features works outside of it's domain, including a manifesto from PKK terrorist organization leader..
my_throwaway23an hour ago
Side note: I love literature, but I can not for the life of me understand how anyone can consider non-fiction enjoyable to read. Informative, perhaps interesting, yes, but enjoyable? Heck no. Take me as far away from reality as possible.
Though, of course, to each their own.
chimpanzee226 minutes ago
Interesting– Conversely, that is exactly how I feel about reading fiction.
To me, how can you possibly enjoy reading something some other person simply ... made up? Like an elaborate lie?
Contrarily, non-fiction tells it how it happened within the very reality I myself live in, subject to the same laws of nature and real psychology, and therefore, and only therefore, able to teach me something about real life on this earth.
zorked20 minutes ago
"non-fiction tells it how it happened"
my_throwaway2413 minutes ago
Please do not take this question any particular way, I'm just curious:
Do you happen to be female?
my_throwaway237 minutes ago
What difference does it make?
speed_spread19 minutes ago
You have to make your own stories as you go along. Plug that fresh knowledge into hypothetical scenarios from stuff you've learned before.
contingencies28 minutes ago
If you don't enjoy learning you may be in a minority here.
my_throwaway2320 minutes ago
It sounds almost as if you're saying learning is only possible by reading, which, I would argue, most of the history of humanity proves false.
tommica20 minutes ago
Stupid take, one can learn from fiction too.
my_throwaway237 minutes ago
And not everything's about learning. It is allowed to do things strictly because you enjoy doing them, with no ulterior motive.
Yokohiiian hour ago
> THE CYPHERNOMICON
I've peeked into that one. I've expected those people to be radical to some degree, but I didn't expect they write it down so clearly.
This writing wants to see the collapse of governments and democracy. I find it painful to read such radical statements. So I didn't get very deep.
But I am riddled how those people think a collapse of that scale will work out in their favor. They are deeply reliant on technology and the first thing to happen on collapse, is that many lights turn off.
Cthulhu_an hour ago
This is the thing I don't understand about (a superficial interpretation of) anarchists; while governments are often not ideal, a lack of one wouldn't be better. And trusting people to self-organize is idealistic, but in practice it'd mean we go back to tribalism and "might makes right".
skinfaxian hour ago
We have a bunch of temporarily embarrassed tribal warlords among us.
jvanderbotan hour ago
There was this really good short story illustrating this: (edited to add: "Cloak of Anarchy", Larry Niven, thx to below).
A park where anything goes ... because sentry robots keep the peace. When the robots break, things get scary quickly.
I've become convinced that a well-governed society is the perfect foundation for a limited anarchist commune set up on property legally purchased. Libertarian, essentially. Or Amish.
BigTTYGothGF31 minutes ago
Cloak of Anarchy, Larry Niven.
kibwen9 minutes ago
I get the impression that even the definition of "anarchy" itself is subject to anarchy, with lots of disagreements and infighting. The more even-keeled anarchists that I've seen stress that they're not against hierarchies, only involuntary hierarchies, with the idea being that individuals should be welcome to organize themselves into hierarchies into which they delegate power, as long as that power can be revoked at any time, which sounds like a reasonable proposition. And then there's crypto-anarchism, which is just right-libertarianism in a Scooby Doo monster mask.
kriro34 minutes ago
I've been a bit out of the loop with Austrian Economics (last re-read of Human Action was ~15 years ago). I'm very well read in it and enjoy the aesthetics of the theories and the history of thought books but got very tired of the online flame-wars and the political side in general (both the pro- and anti-Austrians). So Praxeology of Privacy sounds like an interesting read, I'll give it a go this year.
raffael_dean hour ago
Privacy for the citizens and transparency for the government. Sadly, all democracies are right in the middle of establishing the polar opposite.
tangerine67g3 hours ago
nice work, interesting page
I don't think you need a pretty landing page and the content of https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/collection
could directly live under
https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/
it's a website with information and I really want to see the collection and information insteda of just a single headline with an animation
totetsu3 hours ago
if it wasnt for needless landing pages where would we ever get a chance to use all the cool animation features browsers have accreted over the last 20 years.
ycombinetean hour ago
What is this very mild cyberpunk motif doing in my cyberpunk library website?
aa-jv2 hours ago
Even worse than a redundant/useless landing page, is a page with an invalid certificate. Nothing nopes me out harder than having to tell my IT-governed browser to ignore the site operators faulty administration of their domain ..
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ramon1562 hours ago
the hover animation on the books in `/` slows down my Firefox
Cool project nonetheless! Enjoyed browsing through the options
senan hour ago
If a site like this isn’t using your browser to mine bitcoin I’d be incredibly disappointed.
unprovable3 hours ago
Nice - can't wait to see how it grows!
proxysna3 hours ago
Looks really nice, but 10 fps in Firefox.
yregan hour ago
Buttery smooth for me in Firefox (mac)
juleiie2 hours ago
Everything on the Internet is public domain, up for grabs
In the past you could argue about legal stuff but now the LLM training companies have proven that beyond all doubt, it is not only possible but even legal to use any Internet material as you see fit.
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