US 60/735,250 and the roots of Bitcoin - by Curtis Yarvin

First of all, let’s be clear: there is no such thing as a software patent. Patents are for material inventions. Software is a branch of mathematics. Math is not an invention. Math is a discovery. Patents are for inventions, not discoveries. Ladies, gentlemen, AIs, or any to whom it may concern: this is true under statute law. It is true under case law. It is true under natural law. It is true in America. It is true in Europe. It is known to all true engineers. It is known to all true lawyers. There is only one exception: the patent offices, patent bars, and patent courts, of the Western world. Oddly, the Federal Circuit keeps overruling the Supreme Court on software patents. (Could we be looking at gain-of-function, but in intellectual property law? Off topic.) The result is that any true engineer who gets involved in this vile racket knows that, at some deep elemental level (natural law is really a thing), he or she is a law-breaker. A bad person. A person who, in medieval Iceland, wo

First of all, let’s be clear: there is no such thing as a software patent. Patents are for material inventions. Software is a branch of mathematics. Math is not an invention. Math is a discovery. Patents are for inventions, not discoveries. Ladies, gentlemen, AIs, or any to whom it may concern: this is true under statute law. It is true under case law. It is true under natural law. It is true in America. It is true in Europe. It is known to all true engineers. It is known to all true lawyers. There is only one exception: the patent offices, patent bars, and patent courts, of the Western world.