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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 8h \ parent \ on: The part of Bitcoin you *have* to trust bitcoin
A fun exercise is to tune in to media from the Hated Other and listen to how they make sense of the world. Feel the outrage rise up in you, all the but actuallys you swallow, or maybe don't swallow. And then realize that you're doing the same thing as they are. If you doubt that you're doing the same thing, ask some friends (or former friends) about what they think about your hot takes about their ideologies. Whether you're representing them fairly, in a way they'd endorse. Oops. This behavior isn't unqique to bitcoiners, of course, although I used to expect better of them.
this is sort whataboutism/flakey appeal to symmetry doesn't count for much. It's perfectly possible that one party's indignation is based on more sound, rigorous reasoning than another. Just because they also are emotionally upset about something, doesn't mean their arguments are just as valid/correct/accurate as someone else's. Reality matters, truth is fixed -- not arbitrary and relative
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 7h
It could mean that one party is more rigorous, sound, whatever, but it probably doesn't; not statistically. Although I'm sure it's comfortable to believe so.
One can appeal to symmetry on bullshit grounds, and this is often done; or one can do so because wrt human concerns, the kind of crystalline truth people pretend to is basically absent.
This, I would suggest, is the reality that matters most.
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