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mp_en_viaje: the theory went that bitcoin
corrupts the fiatards, yet somehow magically everyone's pete_dushenski now, so fascinatingly seductive's his empty nothingness to the postmodern mind or what the fuck on wheels' goin' on!
a111: Logged on 2018-10-26 17:04 mircea_popescu: in short, because this winding discussion risks overwhelming buffers, the salient points are a) that i'm not ready to go to war over serpent, it's a meh-maybe item ; b) that building our spearheads around items we're not willing to die for may be how the converse of
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=bitcoin+corrupts altogether.
mircea_popescu: in short, because this winding discussion risks overwhelming buffers, the salient points are a) that i'm not ready to go to war over serpent, it's a meh-maybe item ; b) that building our spearheads around items we're not willing to die for may be how the converse of
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=bitcoin+corrupts altogether.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-05-22 20:59 mircea_popescu: well, do you then see how this is the only available blade of "fiat
corrupts" for the empire ? dull and small as it is, it's their mangy goat, one and only.
mircea_popescu: this is how the republic
corrupts, in that once it's on the table, every man is now compelled to make a choice, and the other choice is incompatible with intelligence.
mircea_popescu: well, do you then see how this is the only available blade of "fiat
corrupts" for the empire ? dull and small as it is, it's their mangy goat, one and only.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, do you understand how the "bitcoin
corrupts" portion of republican ideology works ?
zx2c4: and you think that since you've "thought your way out" of the paradigm, you're a threat and so the government has an interest in having people avoid you? kill socrates because he
corrupts the young?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-21#1804343 << blocks are immutable by implementations ; this is both the source of the observation that "bitcoin
corrupts absolutely", ie, it is superlative to anything the usg can come up with ; and the whole fucking point of the protocol in the first place. can trust evil people to do your shit, because bitcoin promises it will enforce upon them the dilemma "either be ENTIRELY impotent, or els
☝︎ mp_en_viaje: but hey, the fantasy that it works for them is a large part of why bitcoin
corrupts so well.
mircea_popescu: (because unearned "income"
corrupts, fundamentally. notice the torrents of "let's make sure we're worthy of manna from heavens" supposed "legislation" in the past decades.)
mircea_popescu: anyway. it is a plain example of "bitcoin
corrupts" at work.
mircea_popescu: also re the "maggots will find a way", the tmsr point is subtler than that : a) yes they will but b) let it be the intake manifold and c) make sure the machine
corrupts them into humanity.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 20:06 mircea_popescu: the proposition that we'd end up with a sort of uci-as-nsa and l1-as-subtstitute-for-dnc is very much the proposition that, "you know what ? inca also
corrupts"
mircea_popescu: the proposition that we'd end up with a sort of uci-as-nsa and l1-as-subtstitute-for-dnc is very much the proposition that, "you know what ? inca also
corrupts"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and this is my point here : yes, bitcoin
corrupts. i mean specific things by this term of art, they're in the logs.
adlai: premature optimization
corrupts absolutely?
mircea_popescu: anyway. i don't buy into this "people good but evil govenrment
corrupts". as near as i can see, "people suck and government does the best it can, as their product."
mircea_popescu: much like the "bitcoin
corrupts" argument - harem heals. if you actually get one, you can't be "yourself".
mircea_popescu: check it out asciilifeform the 1300s chinese novel even has the "bitcoin
corrupts" doctrine. "obviously he was a bro, and all bros of the world should join the rebel army".
mircea_popescu: anyway, yet another thing bitcoin
corrupts irretrievably. "wtf this secret job has no public log ? a fie upon you!"
trinque: and that's what
corrupts the intermediate-step approach, it seems?
assbot: PROTO-GERMANIC & INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES: "POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT & ABSOLUTE POWER
CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY" : THE US GOVERNMENT UNLAWFUL EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION LAWS WHERE OUR TRAITOROUS, WICKED CONGRESS (SAVE A FEW LIKE RON PAUL, AL FRANKEN, DENNIS KUCINICH) HAVE MADE THEMSELVES GODS OVER US. ... (
http://bit.ly/1CCmNbe )
mircea_popescu: it is not true that money and wealth is "wrong" or "
corrupts", as the fucking protestants would have you believe. it is not true that appetite or expansion are evil, as the puritans would hae you believe.
Naphex: if anything
corrupts the main chain, the spv will pick it up
Mats_cd03: today, i learned Windows will never use the first mb of physical memory for anything, because buggy firmware
corrupts it so often
mircea_popescu: princessnell "Visions receive more attention than game plans. We know we want to “decentralize,” at least. Growing pains notwithstanding, the old ways simply will not do. Power
corrupts, we are reminded from birth. The worst get on top, fewer learn later. Men are not angels but too many of them still run the world. No, our doomed synthetic seraphocracy must go." your prose needs better ligature.
BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com perfect money
corrupts absolutely
gribble: i guess we get 2 see how power
corrupts:-D:-D:-D
nubbins`: ;;aol i guess we get to see how power
corrupts nubbins`: ;;aol i guess we get to see how power
corrupts ThickAsThieves: it's hard to battle idiocy on tv, it
corrupts through the nature of its questioning alone
truffles: one need not look further than a forum or chatroom to see that power
corrupts ozbot: Perfect money
corrupts absolutely pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ozbot: Perfect money
corrupts absolutely pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.