My guest today is Mark Miller, an American computer scientist. He is known for his work as one of the participants in the 1979 hypertext project known as Project Xanadu; for inventing Miller columns; and the open-source coordinator of the E programming language. He also designed the Caja compiler. Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Foresight Institute.
The topic is computer science.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Property rights
- Hernando de Soto
- Bitcoin and digital trust
- “Smart contracts”
- Why a contract is like a board game
- Game theory
- 3rd World infrastructure
- How program code can become a contract
- A closer look at “possession is nine-tenths of the law”
- Whether the Turing Test was just passed
- Defining the term “singularity”, and the multiple singularities of the past
- A.I. and nanotechnology
- How Miller’s work relates to markets
- The history of hypertext
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