In rpn notation you just put the input on the stack, right? The encodings seems like they could get pretty big, and encodings certainly wouldn't be unique, but you should be able to encode pretty much any constant you could think of.

I'm way too unschooled to say if it's important or not, but what really excites me is the Catalan structure ("Every EML expression is a binary tree [...] isomorphic to well-studied combinatorial objects like full binary trees and Catalan objects").

So, what happens if you take say the EML expression for addition, and invert the binary tree?

If recorded music didn't kill music, then AI probably won't either.

But recorded music was a crisis. And it did tempt a lot of people into supporting fabulously abusable, rich-enriching "intellectual property" law as a means of financing art.

Rich people are lobbying to capitalize on this crisis as well.

Because I prefer not to think about the hair I'm removing from my shower drain?

The generous way of seeing it is that you don't know what the customer wants, and the customer doesn't know all that well what they want either, and certainly not how to express it to you. So you try something, and improve it from there.

But for aerospace, the customer probably knows pretty well what they want.

I think they see X now as a branded political vanity project for one guy, much like Truth Social is for Trump. I know a lot of us see it that way.

For what good it does, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook aren't that yet (the Metaverse might have been borderline though, haha)

It comes from X's own metrics, why would they lie about it?

What specific cause are you referring to here as government censorship of the internet?

"Listen baby, they're playing uncer song..."

"Git should get a room!"

I agree with the parts worth engaging with. I hate when people weak-man arguments.

But interesting as this is, there are others who fit at least as well. That bit gold was the closest proposed scheme to Bitcoin is well known, and we know the proposer of bit gold (Szabo) was actively soliciting partners to help implement it as a real system right before Bitcoin appeared.

Also, people leave mailing lists and come back randomly months later all the time. Adam could have simply been unlucky, and busy with other projects at the time of the launch. Lots of people were, and kicked themselves for it (which honestly, it seems Adam did too!).

Adam Back is credited in the Bitcoin whitepaper as the inventor of Hashcash. W. Dai is credited as the inventor of b-money. But Nick Szabo is not credited as the inventor of bit gold, by far the most mature of these ideas floating around at the cipherpunks mailing list at the time. That's a conspicuous absence.