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I would need to know as much about bitcoin and life before I could even begin to criticize Mr. Ammous. And even then I wouldn't.

boston wine 2y ago

I’m conflicted.

On one hand, Saifedean’s exhibits classic dunning-Kruger qualities: relying his expertise in one specific niche to validate (obviously misplaced) “mastery” of other areas of study.

On the other hand, I grew up in USA, where things are far from perfect, but the gov/financial system is nowhere near as bad as Lebanon. I recognize that privilege. And so I can understand why someone in a hyper-inflationary environment would argue that gov’t officials and financial “leaders” are unilaterally corrupt.

The world is nuanced, and so are my opinions. As a result, it requires mental and emotional processing to begin “sorting” these conflicts and my opinions thereof.

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BitBurn 2y ago

I think you are being to hard him but thats just my humble opinion. The only real place I have noticed DK is his aversion to vegetables and his love for a carnivore diet.

All else is forgiven because I've not walked a mile in his moccasins and I also love meat. (no homo)

boston wine 2y ago

Like I said, it’s nuanced, and I’m conflicted.

When humans were evolving, we were lucky and delighted to slay a Woolly Mammoth and have red meat available for months.

At other times, we were perfectly able to thrive on nuts and berries.

The meat was great, because of high caloric density: we only needed to eat a fraction of the volume, to consume the same potential energy.

Sugar existed in the form of fruit or honey: we had to climb trees, or confront beehives, to access that extremely high level of caloric intake.

It’s all evolutionary. But I digress.

wrt Saife, I appreciate is insights about Bitcoin and economics. Keynesianism is inherently flawed, and Saifedean points that out. He also offers a solution - Bitcoin.

I agree with him on that.

But I think *delivery* is very important. If you want to convey a message that is critically important to humanity’s path, how it’s written matters, and I think Bitcoin Standard could use a “second edition” in that regard.

boston wine 2y ago

Like I said, it’s nuanced, and I’m conflicted.

When humans were evolving, we were lucky and delighted to slay a Woolly Mammoth and have red meat available for months.

At other times, we were perfectly able to thrive on nuts and berries.

The meat was great, because of high caloric density: we only needed to eat a fraction of the volume, to consume the same potential energy.

Sugar existed in the form of fruit or honey: we had to climb trees, or confront beehives, to access that extremely high level of caloric intake.

It’s all evolutionary. But I digress.

wrt Saife, I appreciate is insights about Bitcoin and economics. Keynesianism is inherently flawed, and Saifedean points that out. He also offers a solution - Bitcoin.

I agree with him on that.

BitBurn 2y ago

I would have been rare for early sapiens to kill a mammoth and they certainly could not have preserved the the meat for months as you said.

But anyway, the species has progressed and now we eat our meat in leisure at the top of the chain instead of at the bottom.