𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠

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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • The Darkroom of Damocles.

    The big “twist” in the book basically gets pretty obviously announced in the first chapter “oh this person is exactly like me but better in every way I can conceive, how vexing. Gosh would I like to be him”. It’s almost spelled out.

    Once the twist is known, the rest of the book makes little sense. Sure, the main character becomes an unreliable narrator, but he’s not just twisting details; hugely important events can no longer happen if you assume the twist, because there’s no physical way of it happening, unless the narrator is so extremely unreliable that you might as well be reading Jurassic Park only to reveal it was actually Terminator or something.

    And then the book tries to end all clever by dangling the whole “was this the twist? Was it all real? Who knoooowws” making the book feel like a massive waste of time. Clearly the author wanted you to doubt the narrator at the end so you’d go back and think “oh was this/that a hint?”, but with the twist being so painfully obvious it lands flat on its face.

    I was hoping there’d be some clever ending that meta-played on the whole “the reader has been distrusting of the narrator”-ordeal, but there was nothing. Very unfulfilling reading experience.





  • What happens if a mistake was made and an NFT is erroneously issued (for example to the wrong person)?

    What happens if the owner dies? How is the NFT transferred then?

    Who checks that the original NFT was issued correctly?

    What about properties that are split? What happens if the split isn’t represented in the NFT correctly (e.g. due to an error)?

    The whole non-fungible part can be a problem, not a solution. It very, very rarely happens that ownership of a property is contested. It happens quite often that a mistake is made during a property transfer/sale that needs to be corrected. How do NFTs deal with this, and are they a solution to a non-issue?