i think about inevitability regarding natural law.
if i throw a person into the artic ocean, they will inevitably cool to equilibrium with the water.
kick as they might, trying to stay warm, there is only one way it goes.
btc is perfect money because it perfectly aligns with natural law, as such, our monetary system can only bleed energy into btc, inevitably
u switch
an important part of the monty hall problem you left out is that the host has to pick an empty wallet. he isn’t picking a wallet at random.
if you blow up the scale from 3 wallets to 1000 it’s obvious.
u pick one, host opens 998 empty wallets, do u stay or switch?
obvious to switch there.
principles are the same with only 3 wallets
when people say bitcoin doesn’t change, it changes you, i think that’s the principle you grasped here.
more people will understand what bitcoin is, and more people will figure out better ways to use it, forever
but bitcoin will not change, which is what allows the former in the first place
but will always physically live within a border to call home.
Fitting tweet tonight from Dr. Edward Feser:
“A man with a sense of home understands that that home, like all things human, is bound to be imperfect, and accepts and loves it anyway. Inspired by that love, he wants to repair and improve it, rather than tear down in a spirit of rage and bitterness.”
10 years?
human nature is more immutable than btc
for all human history
in time, bitcoiners will be all people
it’s a positive feedback loop trending towards a nash equilibrium.
bitter truth is every human being is already in that position, inherently.
no one can dictate what you do except for you
you choose your priorities
trying to abdicate your agency is coward shit
this
yeah, the juice is almost always worth the squeeze
why we need to read Aristotle and Aquinas. all the natural law stuff starts with them
a seed of hope is planted somewhere deep in your heart
yep, society isn’t fruitful, we just pursue sterile pleasure
perhaps sodom and gomorrah, wasn’t just about what people did in their bedroom
like I said, I’m using classical Aristotelian terminology.
property, function, attributes, powers, accident, necessity: these words once meant something precise, common parlance has blunted the edge of discourse
accident means it could be some other way. not of necessity
like your example, it could grind grain or sharpen a stone, or it could not. what you do with it is an accident, not of necessity.
money can be used to control, or not.
thus, it’s an accident
not in the clumsy meaning of “happened accidentally”
but meaning it is an accidental attribute.
like having brown hair, it’s an attribute of my hair, but it could have been different.
i am 6’ tall, but i could have been 5’11” or 6’1”
in the singular act of human beings exchanging through a medium, money is brought into existence: MoE, SoV, UoA occur necessarily, could not be any other way
if that doesnt make sense to you, i can’t explain it any simpler
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no matter how you come at it, the functions of money MoE, UoA, and SoV are unseperatable.
so got that
Method of Control, that’s not a formal property of money, it’s an accidental use not an inherent.
ie. btc is money, and u can’t control shit with it.
i can pick up a stone, and bash someone with it, but bashing is not an inherent property of the stone.
I’m working with the classical Aristotelian distinction between property and attribute.
properties refering to form
attributes refering to matter
durable scare divisible etc all are material attributes
the canvas/paper has something going on with it too