Against numbers
I consider numbering a tragedy. It leads to dehumanization. For example, houses. I think they should be at least somewhat unique and have names that reflect their properties. One is red, another blue, a third is shaped like the moon, the fourth is Uncle Garik, and so on. Orientation will become meaningful. Of course, it will be slower; the option of simply skipping everything absolutely identical and finding the right cell in a giga-sized apartment building will disappear. But. The need to quickly skip everything is caused precisely by the fact that everything is equally disgustingly gray and meaningless. We could start by assigning NFT images of cool, schematic pictures like Eagle, Lion, Dove, Dragon, Unicorn, Sun, Moon, and so on. And let residents vote on the house's color scheme. It's cheap. And it will provide work for a bunch of artists and professional painters.
Of course, this will make life difficult for foreigners. But excuse me, we have a different style. My ideal country is a tangled fractal labyrinth, where every journey from point A to point B is a fascinating journey, and a straight line is never the shortest route.
For those who prefer to shave everyone's heads, tattoo numbers instead of names, and force them to work themselves to death—well, your style has won in reality, rejoice.
And here is a corner for dreams and for life.
Addition: such a country should have a developed culture of hospitality and good neighborliness.
If a phone number were like a seed phrase (meaning words, not numbers) in a crypto wallet, how many words would it take up, considering that seed phrases are needed for subscribers?
ChatGPT said:
Thought about it for 24 hours.
Short: 4 words.
Explanation (without unnecessary math):
The subscriber's "unique part" of the number is 10 digits (the country code is fixed).
10 digits ≈ 33.22 bits of information.
So, imagine, instead of a number:
- Your phrase?
- An eagle flies over a river.
- And yours?
- A fish lives in water.
Obviously, it's not exactly like that, but just think about it this way.