Ep. 248: Mark Miller Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Published: June 17, 2014, 1:10 a.m.

My guest today is Mark Miller,\xa0an 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
  • \u201cSmart contracts\u201d
  • Why a contract is like a board game
  • Game theory
  • 3rd World infrastructure
  • How program code can become a contract
  • A closer look at \u201cpossession is nine-tenths of the law\u201d
  • Whether the Turing Test was just passed
  • Defining the term \u201csingularity\u201d, and the multiple singularities of the past
  • A.I. and nanotechnology
  • How Miller\u2019s work relates to markets
  • The history of hypertext

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