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Why are people so susceptible to conspiracy theories? People seem so eager to attribute superhuman powers to a made-up class of comic-book overlords, they never actually think through how difficult it would be (usually impossible) for groups of real live human beings to actually implement the schemes they are accusing them of implementing. It's like they want to live in a world with comic-book super-villains, because it gives them, I dunno, purpose?

Lot of bitcoiners who are super bullish on pretty much every category of emerging technology except, for some reason, quantum.

Trusted pubkeys (nostr.band) Summer of 2023, around 15k. Summer of 2024, around 20k. Summer of 2025, around 17k This month: around 14k