You can count on uncertainty

Intellectual laziness is not just common, it's a business model for many.

We didn’t have an enlightenment just so we could disagree on what we believe in. We had an enlightenment just so we had the tools to end ideology.

We do not need to agree on opinion. But we absolutely need to agree on the definitions used to form that opinion.

The value of influence is not measured in accuracy, nor in excellence. Influence is a market for attention, and the most valuable currency in that market is confident certainty. Which is precisely why being wrong, loudly, often outperforms being right, carefully. What looks like sincere conviction is frequently a deliberate performance. The influencer’s true motives are monetization, ideological capture, ego, allegiance to undisclosed interests stay hidden behind a mask, because transparency about strategy would collapse the very trust the strategy depends on. Moral language is the preferred camouflage: by framing self-interest as righteousness, the influencer weaponizes the audience’s conscience against its own skepticism, making disagreement feel not merely incorrect but shameful. Ethical influence can exist, when the incentive is not ideological.

For those that are winning, the incentive to understand the rules of the game is to learn how to cheat. Wishing for it to be any different is naive. Go ahead and trust them when they say "tax the rich", "capitalism is bad", or other such nonsense. Start playing the game, or keep on bitching about it, but don't ask me to give you something for nothing. Risk rewards, false security does not.

You are being governed, but what does that mean? It is assumed that policy has nothing to do with strategic opacity. Ambiguity is a tool that is being used in the favor of the policy maker. Where is the incentive to be transparent? You've already lost trust, admit it. All you have to do is act accordingly. Study, read, make up your own mind. #Bitcoin doesn't require trust, it is verifiable.

#Bitcoin as monetary coordination has the structure of what economists call a coordination game with multiple equilibria, where one equilibrium universal adoption of a hardest-money standard is Pareto-superior, but is only reached once enough players independently converge toward it. Schelling’s point: without communication, people pick the salient focal point. Bitcoin’s salience grows with every cycle.

New policy creates new incentives

Consciousness is a non zero sum game. Good luck!

The idea that public figures say what they mean exactly, and can be literally trusted for their precise wording, is insane.

A flag is a symbol. It symbolizes a belief. It is the depiction of ideology, in this case not a specific one. You can pick one, any one, but that is not the point. Ideology is our social disorder. We must end it. We must return to sound rhetoric, epistemological break down of ideological madness. #banksy #ideology

#Bitcoin has the highest sustained #CAGR of any fungible, continuously priced, globally salable unit of value in modern financial history. The gap is structural, not incidental. Every equity at 50%+ CAGR is a contingent claim on an enterprise. NVIDIA, Berkshire, Apple; the unit only retains value as long as the company executes, doesn’t dilute, doesn’t fail. The CAGR is on a share, not on the thing itself. Bitcoin’s CAGR is on the unit. Non-contingent. Non-dilutive. No board, no CEO, no quarterly miss. A BTC is terminally a BTC. That’s why the comparison isn’t apples to apples. Bitcoin is the only asset where the compound rate of return accrues to the monetary unit directly, with no enterprise risk between the holder and the unit. Highest CAGR per salable unit on Earth. By a margin that isn’t close.

A good friend of mine told me yesterday I should reinvest in real estate because it's the best investment possible. He said it would be stupid if I didn't. I didn't discuss. I didn't react. I simply responded with a smile. Here are some of the reasons that made me smile: #Bitcoin is always salable, it's the best form of liquidity, available 24/7/365 without a notary. #Bitcoin is secure, the walls can't be knocked down and it doesn't require any maintenance. #Bitcoin isn't stationary, and can be transported anywhere without detection. #Bitcoin is absolutely scarce, deterministically scalable in value globally without inflation. #Bitcoin allows the user to be sovereign, independent of state force. #Bitcoin's proof of ownership is a seed phrase, which can live dormant in my head as long as I live. Can you think of some other reasons that would make me smile even more?

With great conviction the Dutch created a secular state, yet now we are not allowed to have one, because of the influence of Islam growing while any form of critique is not being allowed. What can the people who desired the secular state do now to oppose this ideological hypocrisy? Can we at least protest against ideology and religious influence on governance?

The war for #truth is a war against #ideology.

Aristotle was a shitty chemist.

I just read metaphysics by Aristotle and now I’m wondering why it all seems either very much out of date or extremely obvious. Can you name some points that he made that are still relevant today? #Aristotles

I don't think suicide is as popular as statistics make us believe.

If it wasn't funny, you're doing something wrong because it was funny, only you couldn't laugh yet.