Socrates on paper bitcoin:
Discussion
Yeah, Ayn Rand might not see eye to eye with Socrates.
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Aye! 🫡💯
True if i think about it
Are virtues even real? Or are they just constructs, abstractions like every other abstraction, created to prevent individuals from gaining power?
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
Is this the devil speaking?
i think Socrates was such a toxic maxi he would not have touched bitcoin because he simply never gave a fuck about working or writing things down
(he literally never has written down any of his ‚teachings‘)
so we're destined for paper bitcoin overtaking the market, like what happened with gold?
shucks