Subnostr

Interesting read, I struggled with the arguments made during the WBD chat. Especially when he was pushed on how bitcoin’s PoW is to be used for universally “securing” data. When in face for the most part it was based on DDoS sustained attack prevention. Or exhibit costs for certain functions/interactions (zaps etc.).

Wasn’t able to put my finger in why I wasn’t 100% onboard with the thesis. Appreciate you articulating this.

On a side note I think the evolution prey/hunter arguments are potentially over simplification of biological adaptation history. Not all successful evolutionary traits are a result of being able to exert power and dominate other animals that share an ecosystem. It is all about genes getting proliferated and sometimes that means that adopting social traits, that are not about “power”, increases the likelihood of genes getting proliferated.

Also I reject the idea that we have finite resources to the extent that it is argued in the WBD interview. The work by David Deutsch, for example, proposes that almost anything can be converted into a “resource” just by the act of us humans conceiving and developing ways in which that thing is used. Therefore our resources are truly only limited by our ability to construct ideas in which those thing become useful. Anyway that is more a philosophical point but need to be considered when we use the framing “this is a constant battle for resources that are scares”.

21 Stackage 🦡 2y ago

The idea of the US government appropriating hash for the sake of protecting digital territory is absurd to me. Bitcoin's incentives run counter to this type of appropriation by encouraging free enterprise. If anything, hashing should replace taxation, and in effect, institutions like the IRS and Fed Reserve entirely.

Good point bringing up Lowery's oversimplification of biology and his Malthusian undertone, it reminds me of how the manosphere would use evo psych to prop terrible dating advice

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ODELL

if it takes you four hundred pages to get your point across then you probably don't understand what you are writing about in the first place

proud to release my bitcoin thesis to the public for free, I hope you find it helpful

https://werunbtc.com/thesis.pdf

21 Stackage 🦡 2y ago

lmao 🤣

Gonna "project my power" by zapping this note

21 Stackage 🦡 2y ago

Sounds like a Timbaland beat 👍

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manlikekweks

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21 Stackage 🦡 2y ago

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Jameson Lopp

I listened to Jason Lowery speak for 10+ hours so that you don't have to. https://blog.lopp.net/critique-softwar-concepts/

21 Stackage 🦡 2y ago

"What if Lowery's thesis itself is a denial of service attack?"

lol, I'm glad someone else pointed out how TEDIOUS it is to listen to Lowery speak. I've heard some of the podcasts and I never saw the connection between Bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus, cyberwarfare, and the securitization of non-Bitcoin data. I do think power projection will change under a Bitcoin standard, but not in the manner that Lowery suggests, where Bitcoin will somehow become a new frontier of warfare. In fact, I think it's a wholesale misnomering of the physical aspect of proof-of-work

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