Are virtues even real? Or are they just constructs, abstractions like every other abstraction, created to prevent individuals from gaining power?
Are virtues even real? Or are they just constructs, abstractions like every other abstraction, created to prevent individuals from gaining power?
PoW network is the Moat.
Many in the older generation struggle to mentally grasp the idea of an abstraction functioning as a protocol, and how powerful it is. It's more difficult than we might imagine for people to understand such concepts. It just takes time, it's still early.
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People still give sugar to their offspring just because it makes them happy.
Love is just a word without a basic understanding of your environment — in other words, knowledge.
I can confirm that in Lugano, Switzerland, many shops accept Bitcoin.
Use abstractions to free yourself,
but never abstract away reality.
Google AI sleeps
Peace, love, good, evil, these are command-line commands wired into our kernel.
They’re embedded illusions, exploited to control and manipulate the masses.
There’s only one reality, for both individuals and nations: power.
Power means the ability to inflict kinetic damage on your adversary.
If you can’t do that, you’ll lose, no matter how full your mouth is with righteous, empty words.
Ezekiel 13:10 (ESV)
> “Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace...”
Marketing convinced people to destroy their health with the worst dietary regimes, while building tribes around overpriced branded T-shirts—mocking those who couldn't afford such absurd luxuries.
People remain subject to propaganda and cling to the illusion that voting is a meaningful way to express their ideas within a consensual framework.
Most humans are, quite simply, stupid.
Nature evolves through trial-and-error iteration.
Your speeches are always very interesting and emotionally engaging. Unfortunately, this is what most men tend to do when they can exert power over others—I doubt we can change that. The only way to protect oneself from it seems to be by gaining more power, which may be selfish. But unlike you, I believe humans are fundamentally barbaric—only superficially civilized by protocols engineered by a few enlightened individuals among us.
Still riding my crappy Yamaha Vity — never serviced it, just top up the oil. Spending money feels like bleeding power.
Governments are trapped in a borrowing spiral, and the thesis is that nothing can stop this train.
What matters is that new knowledge is created, while humans bear less of the burden of routinely explaining old knowledge.