the logic breaks when u invert necessary relations. The individual is not the prime “atomic” unit. Freedom is not an end itself. The relational nature of human existence means “the state” can never be abolished. That’s why they are impotent in reality; they speak to a fantasy.

the trauma is deep, thinking is hard, and NGU bro

I can’t even engage with the “particulars” of any war. I just don’t believe the sincerity anymore. I know the monetary system must create pretense to justify the fed printing dollars to buy US treasuries, so until the conflict is literally on our continental mainland OR we have a conflict we can’t fund though printing, I am just going to believe the purpose is just to woodwink the people with a justification to print. Iran is a great success!

Freedom is the flip side of the rationality coin. It’s inherent in human nature. Has nothing to do with privacy or not. it’s like saying without height there is no weight. You may not like the price, but we are always free.

the point of the passed is not “do not judge” for judgment is part of our mode of being. a human being cannot “not” judge. the passage means pay extreme attention to how you judge.

2 weeks to slow the spread!

“Time has primacy over philosophy.” Agree. 💯❤️‍🔥 time, being, knowledge, act, reality itself, all these things have necessary primacy over philosophy, physics, and ever process by which we, human beings, relate to them, including bitcoin that’s the entire point. we cannot scrub out our humanity bitcoin is just another process it helps us understand how we relate to reality, but it does not change the relation itself bitcoin’s block time occurs/exists within reality’s time.

yeah, you correctly articulated our misalignment. which i have always aspired to be able to do with my friends: to pinpoint an exact premise we go different ways with. i, like pointed out, think there is a circularity of reason which contradicts itself in thinking truth is a byproduct of an empirical instantiation. But i’m compelled by the Thomistic arguments that act has primacy to potency, form to matter, the immaterial to the material. if i were not, then i would probably agree with you 🤣 🤜🤛

Bro the play is obvious. Capture the convexity premium embedded in the term structure of leveraged synthetic duration swaps. Rehypothecate the collateral, tranche the exposure, arbitrage the forward curve, and roll the carry into a delta-neutral basis trade. Then lever the mezzanine tranche, hedge the volatility skew, and warehouse the tail risk in an off-balance-sheet vehicle. Boom. Cash money.

Brown University puts total cost to 8 trillion. Even at 2.5, the absurdity 🤦‍♂️

“So if reality preserves truth, how?” This question is asking for a small world answer to a big world question. big world answers are why? questions and we have answers “But that just names the thing, it doesn’t explain the mechanism.” exactly, to explain the mechanics is to create a small world. all we can do is name the thing, acknowledge the necessary relation. You are asking me to make a small world out of the big world. And I’m saying, that’s not possible, and not even a bad thing. that ls the actual defining limitation boundary of our humanity i respect the physics, it answers how questions but philosophy has primacy to physics, and answers the why questions. if bitcoin answers the how, it says nothing about the why. I agree with you that bitcoin is a small world formal system which produces truth equal to that of reality itself. but to say bitcoin is therefor the mechanism by which reality itself produces truth does not follow at all. as a syllogism: 1) that which produces the big world truth is beyond the human mode of being 2) bitcoin is not beyond the human mode of being. 3) MT therefore bitcoin is not that which produces the big world truth

“What other structure can you demonstrably point to that that preserves truth through time besides Bitcoin that we can both objectively agree upon?” reality itself?

if by universe you mean “reality itself” then that breaks the meaning of the term. all the other examples you give are small worlds in a small world, and perfectly valid and coherent. i think the profundity of insights provided by bitcoin about reality are incalculable, but they won’t get me to flip the script on how we relate to reality itself. to me, what you do with time inverts that relation. your website referred to the continuity of time as an “assumed self referential axiom” it’s not assumed, it’s demonstrated and earned though a transcendental argument: it’s a necessary relation, a necessary precondition for anything to be at all. our rational faculty cannot draw a boundary around the big world, that is correct, what the big world means to us empirically is nonsensical, means nothing, beyond our mode of being. but, our rational faculty does recognize the way we relate to the beyond. what’s beyond the horizon of human rationality? not an answerable question, it’s a category error but how do we relate to the horizon? much and more can be known