0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1h \ on: I have no interest in getting normal people to become sovereign individuals. bitcoin
I’m with you, except for one thing. Teaching people to become self sovereign may help them value it more, and the more they value it the more they will vote for policies that respect freedom
I also answered phone, but it’s not because I’m addicted or even by choice. It’s because too many institutions that are crucial for my life, including my workplace, require me to use it for 2FA
Is civ really that popular still? I feel like it’s mostly old guys that play it, the kids these days are mostly into free to play and mobile games
Given the voluntariness of persuasion, we must reframe the key “psywar” questions as: why have so many people become so gullible and so unconcerned about their own privacy in the age of social media? Why, in the new social media world of compromised privacy, has it become so much easier to influence people into accepting new beliefs and values that are contrary to their own rational self-interest?
It is still up to each individual actor to take an active role in continually improving their own beliefs and evaluative principles, always honing their generation of ex ante utility scales to better optimize their ex post experiences of satisfaction. The ultimate responsibility for guarding against deception and manipulation and for achieving such personal moral progress rests with each individual. First, one must understand and cherish open, rational discourse and selective disclosures of personal information before markets can properly align information flows to one’s needs.
To summarize, the libertarian solution is the self-betterment of the individual.
While I agree with that in theory, I am not optimistic that the common man will learn to "understand and cherish open, rational discourse" and "take an active role in continually improving their own beliefs and evaluative principles."
So, my question to libertarians is: What should I do if I agree with libertarian ethics generally, but I don't trust such ethics to create an outcome that actually improves my own utility?
By the way, I am not advocating for more social control over the information process. I am still open to the idea that the libertarian approach is the best of all feasible outcomes; I am just not confident that it achieves anything close to my own first-best.
The world of government contractors is scary bad.
I have an inside look because my wife works on a committee that awards government grants. Her committee is small-time, but even with these small dollar amounts you can already see the favoritism, self-dealing, biases, and dysfunction playing out.
Any time you are using other peoples' money, you are not incentivized to make the right decisions.
Not my job, but there's one guy that made a business from out-squatting squatters. It's pretty wild when you think about it.
I've been scammed before, out of a few thousand US dollars. There wasn't much I could do about it. Just learned my lesson and moved on.
21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Aug \ parent \ on: Interesting number paradox charts_and_numbers
Oh, yeah, I know it's all meant to be fun.
Another fun corollary of this Proof of Interestingness is that it can also be used to prove that every human being is interesting, because if there were any non-interesting humans, then there will be a shortest and a tallest human in the set of non-interesting humans, which makes them interesting.
I never really considered this a paradox, though, because what is inherently paradoxical about all natural numbers being interesting? Every number is unique, after all, being the one and only product of its primes.
Voted "Never" because:
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It will likely take at least multiple generations.
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By the time they can create a Thinkpad, they will already have a lot of technology and infrastructure.
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The generation that has the ability to create the Thinkpad will have no connections to the old world. They will not want the new world erased in favor of the old world. Thus, they simply won't create the Thinkpad.
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The new world will simply continue on according to its natural development.