#Bitcoin is not a new game, it's the same primordial game life has been playing for 4 billion years.
Find increasingly clever ways to raise your cost of attack, which lowers your benefit-to-cost ratio of attack, which grants you more prosperity margin, which then allows you to grow your resource abundance.
It's a fundamental equation of life since abiogenesis and Bitcoin is the latest clever way life has found to affect this equation and allow life to increase its capacity to create ever more complex structure with the superordinate goal of countervailing the entropic stress of the universe.
"Countless people have been sent to early graves, warning future generations through bone trails dug up thousands of years later. Countless other warnings have been written into the pages of history by the survivors. For thousands of years, people of the past have been trying to warn the people of the future that something isnāt working. Our belief systems are clearly flawed; they clearly donāt work the way we wish they would. Countless times people have proven through their actions that there is no viable substitute for physical power for any population who wants to live free from the threat of foreign invasion or who wants to remain systemically secure against the threat of corrupt, self-serving sociopaths who psychologically exploit and abuse people through their belief systems.
In our extraordinary hubris, we believe we can do better, and we ignore the warnings of our predecessors. We keep scaling our beliefs about abstract power to the point where those beliefs become a clear and present danger to the survival and prosperity of our species. By convincing ourselves early in the Neolithic age that we are above nature, that we donāt need physical power to establish our pecking order, we appear to have set ourselves on a path to destroy ourselves. We keep telling ourselves a lie that we donāt have to spend the energy or risk injury to use physical power to establish our pecking order like the animals we domesticate. We keep avoiding fights when and where they should have happened, where energy expenditure and injury would have been minimal. We keep kicking the can down the road, hoping to avoid the physical conflict for moral or ethical reasons until the hazards blossom into such extraordinary levels of dysfunction and losses that it must be resolved using far more energy causing far more destruction and injury. And now we appear to have backed ourselves right into a corner where it has become too costly to physically settle our biggest property and policy disputes."
- Jason Lowery
Proof-of-work is proof-of-real
Sophisticated LLM bot armies operating in a physically unconstrained state space is a serious problem
Anyone here read SOFTWAR and interesting in discussing it?
Those who tell the stories rule society. The "clueless" economists are FAR from clueless. They know exactly what they are doing.
Fiat is a story they tell and get a large percentage of the population to believe in. So they've got everyone believing in this shared subjective abstract reality, a systemically exploitable belief system.
Peak storytellers are peak predators. People who master abstract power projection are predatory storytellers.
So what do we do to stop them? The answer has been the same for over 5000 years of recorded history. We use brute-force physical power to illegitimize their abstract power.
Bitcoin is merely a brute-force physical power digitization system.
Don't call the people at the apex of the current abstract power hierarchy clueless.. they are predators who know exactly what they are doing. They systemically exploited peoples belief systems to get where they are.
If things in the world ever seem confusing and overwhelming, study SOFTWAR and refer to it as you guide.
Primordial economic dynamics are at play at all times.
The current bounded prosperity trap humanity is in is causing the prosperity margin to shrink as the environment becomes increasingly congested, contested, competitive, and hostile.
Software engineers *WANT* performance and scalability. What they *NEED* is a physically constrained internet architecture.
#Bitcoin
Sometimes I like to just watch blocks get found in real time with a podcast in the background.
What do you guys do in a couple cycles when Elon comes out and admits that every Starlink š° is running a full node?
Anyone who participates in a system of government at pretty much any level is literally playing make-believe and LARPing as they subscribe to an ABSTRACT power hierarchy. š¤·āāļø
Nobody is perfect, I think Elon is making genuine efforts to push the needle for humanity.
Not everyone agrees, and that's fine.
As much as people roast Elon on here. Him showing up at the border to raise awareness about gang members coming across and then uploading a video of him hip firing a Barrett .50 cal is an Elon I can get behind.
#Zapathon #SOFTWAR
#Zapathon #Education
To domesticate a human, convince them to trade physical power (proof-of-work) for abstract power (proof-of-stake)
#MutuallyAssuredPreservation #Zapathon
