Yesterday I learned that a neighbor who I assumed to be a mentally handicapped 18ish year old is in fact a 12 year old who behaves in pretty age-appropriate ways but is the size of a pretty typically overweight American man.

I don't think I've heard anyone argue that it's BIP110's code complexity that's the problem, it's what changing the code does or could do that people have issues with. A single lines change could easily have procedural, cultural, and game theory changes, both known and expected, and unknown and unexpected.

This topic reminds me of Pascal's Wager, only seemingly without anything analogous to the "many gods" objection.

From my perspective, you seem to be preaching ideology to a bunch of pragmatists. (Well, we're pretty ideological too but... 🙂)

I admittedly don't know much for details about what you're talking about (I'm assuming it boils down to your efforts to define the value of a sat in terms of energy, and so changing the number of sets that can be processed per block changes that value but...) , but to me it sounds like you're very roughly arguing that we should only do things the way Grandpa did, because if we don't then we're disrespecting Grandpa.

One of the things that I always struggled with about the energy sat value work is that since there were/are many thoughtfully selected yet fundamentally arbitrary choices within the Bitcoin protocol, while some of the larger, broader implementation agnostic sat/energy takeaways quite possibly have some deeper truth to them, many of the specific calculations and conclusions will be somewhat arbitrary artifacts of the specific values of the random decisions that were made along the way within the development and implementation of the protocol. And perhaps the same could be said about many of the constants of nature, perhaps being fine-tuned yet fundamentally arbitrary, but the mere fact that we don't discuss the communities appetite for changing G, C, etc., or see seemingly arbitrary step functions in any of their values, implies that they very much are fundamentally different.

Pain is temporary, injuries from ignoring it are forever 🤣😢

I've lived by the beach, I've lived in the mountains, I prefer the mountains, but there's still something about the beach.

Where's the "Don't notice until later" option? I feel unseen 😁

It's in part preachiness like that that led me away from religion

A friend once told me that his teeth were bad because he wasn't taught to brush them (I think he started brushing in his 20s).

I sometimes wonder what it's going to be like for the masses when Neuralink or the like let them see what it's like to, kind of just by default, think for yourself, try, and have agency.

Yeah, I feel like, for most of my life, society was set up so that people in power could take advantage of the masses, and in exchange, the masses could enjoy simple, thoughtless lives. And it was all retarded bullshit and lies, but at least it was convenient and had an heir of respectability. But then the people in power broke their promise, things got complicated, inconvenient, and they stopped pretending to respect the masses, and I lost my motivation to pretend to not be a bad person by their completely incoherent and self-sabotaging standards.

To be fair, most people are pretty bad if their job 🤣

Now I'm just imagining the complete shit I'd deliver at work if I wasn't allowed to go back and fix things along the way as I constantly see issues, shortcomings, and opportunities in my designs. But I sure would finish tasks faster! 🤣