Go get em 🐅

Heard an interesting take that the end result of Lowry's arguments is encouraging the US military to amass as much mining power as possible so they can use it as a form of control/warfare.

he needs the critiques to write a second more robust version of the theory. you are all now basically working for free for him. he has fooled everyone.

Thanks! Now I don't have to read it.

He will not allow anyone to have an opinion on your critique unless they have also read it.

Seems fair

Question for you from what you wrote here: “But over many generations, humans outsource more and more aspects of their lives to third party specialists... and today we live in a society where very few humans are actually capable of surviving without a massive network of trusted third parties. This creates a huge systemic risk.” I don’t really understand the “huge systemic risk” statement at the end - could you elaborate? What is the risk? Are you implying it’s safer to not have a society of specialists and instead we’d be better off to all be hunter gatherers? I think the nature of survival is simply different today. I also think people tend to romanticize the hunter gatherer lifestyle and forget to address the harshness of that time, for example where people can starve to death if they can’t forage/store enough food in the winter, etc.

Does he pose that much of a threat? I think he's right about the second amendment and Bitcoin.

The systemic risk, for example, is if the highly efficient "just in time" supply chains get disrupted. The vast majority of the population would face starvation / dehydration within weeks.

Thanks! 🤙

Well it's certainly good to question everything.

My opinion is that as soon as the US govt tries to get into Bitcoin in any serious way it will destroy the credibility of the dollar and Bitcoin will become too expensive for them to manipulate it. They'd have to do it in secret, which I don't think is possible at the scale needed to influence the network.

Thanks #[1]​, really interesting write up. Appreciate you putting the hard yards in!

Individual perceptions are not meant for debate, but rather for observation. With that said, I have to say you did well expressing yourobservations to promote additional thought.

The most zap-worthy post.

Excellent and fair critique. Appreciate the evenhanded nature of your writing. Thank you for continuing to support the community. Keep kicking ass. We need more Lopps!

I actually used this thesis review to understand the idea behind Lowery’s book (Jason would hate this). I don’t fully understand it yet but I think there’s a real interesting debate going on. Thanks!

если нет возможности это пояснить в трех словах мне плевать что там написанно) а значит не имеет смысла и логики))) почему придумали трейлер к фильму? что б донести фундоментальные основы. а да похер кому я тут пишу....

Fuck em up, Lopp.