WTF NOW I LOVE AI SLOP View quoted note →

There is bitcoin, which is software. And then there are people who use bitcoin to do things that the software enables. And there are people who people who want to make bitcoin all about their politics or culture or art or wellness or seething beef with some institution. They don't talk about bitcoin, the software. They talk about bitcoin like it's the grace or wrath of God. Which are you?

That your political enemy will somehow realize the hellscape their leaders and policies created is a fantasy. People are hard-wired to commit as a social signal of consistency.

Gandalf is basically the Alfred Adler of Middle Earth: Superpower is encouraging other people to face incredible odds (intervenes infrequently, but drops in to make sure people are staying on their path). Doesn't seek fame or fortune (resists the Ring, lives an ascetic lifestyle) Doesn't mind that he's disliked by small or corrupted minds (Grima, Shire NPC's) Confronts people directly when there's an interpersonal problem (Bilbo becoming corrupted by the ring, Theodin under Sarumon's control)

But what does the penguin do when he reaches the mountain?

"At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'" View quoted note →

Vine coder? Oh, you mean "computer pseudoscientist".

Ohhh yeah who's got two thumbs and got invited to the Plebian Market HellThread?

There's actually nothing I'd want to watch less than @Cypher Tank, thanks.

I am about finished up with "The Courage to be Disliked", and I must say that the main takeaway here is that "trauma" is just a model of explanation that has been abused to the point that it has simply become an indulgence of the patient in excuses not to change. Really toxic reliance on trauma can lead to superiority complexes, where you believe your pain makes you special; that you can use it as a cudgel to control and manipulate people too afraid to stand up to you: "The baby rules over the adilts with his weakness."

# Bitcoin Reductivist Priority 3: If you're consuming, you're not blooming. Consumooorism is a trap. If your instinct is to buy the affinity shit advertised to you during the pleb slop commercial break, take pause. Ask yourself "Do I need this? Can I build this? Is someone tempting me not to think?" View quoted note →

# Bitcoin Reductivist Priority 2: Put a LIDH on it Low Information Density Horseshit is to be identified and mocked. Every culture needs an outlet for frustration. Mercilessly mocking LIDH serves as good, clean fun and also shames creators of LIDH. Shame is a great demotivator. View quoted note →

# Bitcoin Reductivist Priority 1: Bitcoin is software. The consequential act of bitcoin participation is through software; through either its creation or use or education. If it is not about making, using or educating about the making or use of Bitcoin software, it is Low Information Density Horseshit.

I am no longer a bitcoin maximalist. Shitcoins are dead or at least cynically relegated to naked money grabs. There is no need for maximalism. I am a bitcoin reductivist. I think about bitcoin only in terms of what it actually is. Bitcoin is software. Everything else is just podcast fartiness.