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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @itsrealfake 12h \ on: Why Are Bitcoiners Idiots? AskSN
okay, bear with me, I'm only like halfway through reading your post, but you say "Dunning-Kruger in action" after talking about mispronouncing words. consider the possibility that your heuristic for "stupid" is actually a heuristic for "sounds like I could score points on pronunciation".
stupid is at it does. wrongly thinking an author with a name like Bessel (Bess Elle, ends with Elle, sounds femme) after e.g. reading a book but not following up on the author, doesn't mean the book wasn't read. I've encountered plenty of smart people who don't watch internet videos and pronounce names or words incorrectly because they've only ever read the words. BUT THEY"RE READING TEH WORDS.
So, like... yeah, I hear you, but I also think your post (so far) reads a bit like somebody looking to make a point.
I'll now read the rest. Thanks for hearing me out.
Additional thoughts:
When I read "mises" I pronounce it in my head as Mysis, not Meesis. I know the correct, but I just let my head.
Seb got into bitcoin at 2020 (maybe), and so isn't that new to the space.
Seb says a thing @ 14m18s about "hyper fixation on immediate needs". What needs are you attempting to satisfy in using Seb as an example of "an idiot" for mistaking an authors biological characteristics. Should we be concerning ourselves with the content of the arguments, rather than herring bait?
which, by the way, you definitely would have learned had you actually read the book...
What makes you certain of that? I've never read the book, so you can call me out for using the ai slop tools at my disposal, but Grok doesn't indicate where Bessel self-identifies:
Stay humble.
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I should admit tho:
I also find myself distracted from the larger context by minor things. It's a feature of my behavior that I try to be aware of... my comments on your post could be an example :P
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OK, idiot, let's play.
What makes you certain of that? I've never read the book, so you can call me out for using the ai slop tools at my disposal, but Grok doesn't indicate where Bessel self-identifies:
Self-identification is not a thing (#844171) -- ignore that. I definitely recall reading him describe anecdotes where his sex emerges: personal accounts or anecdotes
In fact, I spent some four minutes of my life to find examples for you in the text: "my wife", "I grew up, the son of," "little boy." It's literally the first and second page... "he" is all over the praise page, as well as on the jacket description of the author.
You can't miss it. I.e.:
No, Mr. Bunney DID NOT READ THE BOOK, god dammit
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great, thanks for the follow up!
i went looking for the book in the house, but didn't find it.
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OK, so to your more material arguments: is a person's argument invalidated by their mispronunciations and/or not knowing the book they're talking about?
Absolutely not. But it's a good goddamn first-pass that the person you're engaging with is an idiot/pretender/grifter.
given what I know from Bunney's sloppy writing and inattention to detail (i.e., from the ~400 page book of his I actually read), I think I'm in the clear here to conclude that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
...but he pretends to. Is he therefore stupid in some cosmic sense? Perhaps not. Perhaps this is all a big misunderstanding. Am I in the clear denouncing him as such? Absolutely.
I've encountered plenty of smart people who don't watch internet videos and pronounce names or words incorrectly because they've only ever read the words. BUT THEY"RE READING TEH WORDS.
True, true, true. Big Bunney didn't read the book, so what's your point...?
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