Are numbers real? Strings? Quarks? Electrons? Atoms? Molecules? Cells? Organs? Limbs? People? Families? Clans? Villages? Cities? Countries? Continents? Planets? Solar systems? Galaxies? Superclusters?
Or are all these abstractions just part of some weird power game?
The natural numbers are real. Real numbers are part of our imagination. That’s why I hold no bitcoin :(
Depends what you’re smoking?
Questioning reality today?
Form and emptiness
weird power game for sure
All I know is that a scarce ledger must be beneath all of it for it to be real.
Machiavelli described the situation well, easily one of the greatest truths the Renaissance gave birth to.
Power is the correct framework to view reality:
Saving in fiat currency is surrendering power to the state.
Eating at McDonald’s is surrendering power by sacrificing your health.
Renouncing weightlifting is surrendering power to the obsolescence coded in your DNA.
Buying branded clothes and overpaying for them is surrendering power to brands.
Tax declaration is surrendering power.
So-called love is surrendering power.
Believing in virtue is surrendering power to those who invented them.
Not learning math is surrendering power to those willing to understand reality through abstraction and build systems on top of it.
Will to power is the mental model you need.
Everything is waves
