I don’t understand your point. Is the fascist kangaroo court the one who impeached AG Paxton or the one who did not remove him from office? I haven’t been following this closely.
It's definitely a competition of ideas. But Bitcoin removes government's ability to extract wealth at will from the people living there. And if the people can exit because of poor treatment, the actions of the government has direct consequences. Human action is what changes the world. Ideas are what motivates this action, but ideas without action are worthless.
I think we're saying basically the same thing. But government power is very likely to be reduced/limited by the existence and especially by the mass adoption (human action) of it by the populace.
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There is no justification with regard to accepting first principles. First principles come from experience not proof. I don’t know the proof that Bitcoin removes government's ability to extract wealth. What principle is it based on?
The principle “Every Human Being owns Himself’ also does not emerge from the knowledge of good or evil, it is something to be agreed on or not in our experience. The process that has allowed us to formulate concepts of good and evil perpetuates itself by the manifestations of those concepts in the common understanding of our environment. In other words, I understand slavery is bad because our environment has created understandable concepts that didn’t prevail in history. Which came first, the success of those concepts, or the goodness of them?
I have not read Softwar. It is no longer available on Amazon. I see it is supposed to provide ‘. . . an argument for why emerging proof-of-work technologies (namely Bitcoin) will have a dramatic impact on how humans organize, cooperate, and compete on a global scale by empowering populations to project physical power in, from, and through cyberspace.’ I am partial to this position. Does the author make a projections about that empowered populations and how these new human organizations might be successful? It seem clear to me that human action is driven by intelligence and intent, but in the theory of complex adaptive systems, 'the adaptation' is not driven by intelligence or intent.
Yes, there is a conflict between perserving and changing. That conflict is violent, but unavoidable.
Please help me reconcile how you understand preserving capital to be priority, with my understanding that the waste of capital, by every entrepreneur ever to exert effort, is what has gotten us to this world in which we live.
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I do not believe Bitcoin removes governments coercive power. Is there proof that the world’s most resourced nemesis could not destroy the blockchain? I do believe a growing group of likeminded thinkers sharing trust, community, and subsidiarity might be a foe to that institution, but whether they will become powerful enough to subsume the coercive powers of government itself remains to be seen.
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I am not convinced that Bitcoin can apply force to the government to make it do anything. The goodness of an idea lies in the understanding of those who act on that idea, not in the idea itself. The completion among groups with different ideas is not based on the goodness of those ideas, and neither is the success of that completion based on truth, goodness or justice. If we don’t act with the understand that politics is the process by which the authority to wage war, tax and imprison emerges into our world, that doesn’t negate the actions of others.
The war among those with ideas is no less fierce and requires warriors. Just doing my part.
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I used to relate thinking far ahead to what emerges in the future. Now I agree that the sharing of information with others to inform action is likely more related to the process of change. Just because the result of adaptation is not intended or intelligent by design doesn’t mean we don’t act with intent on the information we have.
My point in sharing is that I believe what is desirable or undesirable is a circumstance of the environment more than a universal morality of good or evil. Perhaps some of the things that preceded us (human sacrifice, slavery, etc), were a necessary precursor for the social organizational structures that benefit us today. Regardless of our judgements. Just as those to necessarily emerge for future adaptation will be undesireable to me. The tree of knowledge requires we judge individually, which is different than collectively, but somehow connected.
I agree. I can imagine a world where the trend toward increasingly devalued fiat that alters the time preference of most of the actors in that world. I would expect change to emerge in such a world, but I can’t judge whether it would be beneficial.
It is a wonder to me too why politicians, philosophers, writers, and jurists who, whether they lived in democratic, communist, or fascist societies, support and defend totalitarian principles and horrific regimes. Compelled behavior seems to have been perquisite of the previous stable complexities and cultures. Have things changed so much that we should expect otherwise?
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Just to be real, I am trying to understand the expectations of you BitCoiners. I am an old man who see potential in BitCoin. I don’t foresee (or expect) to live in a world where fiat doesn’t play the predominant part. Do you?
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I went to the dentist office today. They don't take BitCoin.
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Don’t forget politics is the process by which the authority to wage war, tax and imprison emerges into our world. If we don’t do it, someone else will.
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I think Plato was trying to teach. But perhaps Socrates was really trying to learn what he, himself, might most confidently believe with his questions.
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I like your answer. Our experience of the world no longer needs Satan nor does it need Satoshi Nakamoto as an explanation. The complexities that emerge are not driven by intent, nor are they driven by intelligence, but perhaps they might be understood by such. You questioner appears to have been neither.
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I think your educational course might be more useful if you would first define money and then describe the role of money in the current and a post capital economy. But that might venture to far away from the technology of BitCoin into the meaning of BitCoin.
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I believe an expense can be associated with a loss of funds.
It is not a universal truth, it is a judgment made by each individual slave or soldier.