@violinteo
I'm a violinist and a Bitcoiner.
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You are still missing the point. What appears as “continuity” is being projected from within the system. It is the internal experience of succession, not evidence of a fundamentally continuous sub...
So in order for a UTXO to perceive reality, it would need to experience the creation of a new block, and therefore wouldn't be able to measure the blocks, as the changing from one block to the next would feel continous.
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I used to think being impulsive was a fixed personality trait of mine, then I stopped binge drinking and suddenly I wasn’t impulsive anymore.
Totally- this happened to me too. Except I had to stop drinking completely. It's been over 2 years and I am just different now.
Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).
There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody'...
I think you have to adjust your filter. Look at it this way- for thousands of years, humans have been forced navigate systems that incentivized unethical and amoral action.
For all this time, the winning strategy has been to cheat, deceive, manipulate, and coerce.
What you should be thinking about is how amazing it is that a spark of understanding within us still lives: that the best path forward is through cooperation and collaboration, not coercion and corruption.
If this side of us has been able to remain alive in the face of generations worth of systems that incentivized it's demise, I would say that it's actually pretty damned strong, and now that we have a system that actually incentivises moral action, I don't think it will be too long until the moral and the just will inherit the earth.
For all this time, the winning strategy has been to cheat, deceive, manipulate, and coerce.
What you should be thinking about is how amazing it is that a spark of understanding within us still lives: that the best path forward is through cooperation and collaboration, not coercion and corruption.
If this side of us has been able to remain alive in the face of generations worth of systems that incentivized it's demise, I would say that it's actually pretty damned strong, and now that we have a system that actually incentivises moral action, I don't think it will be too long until the moral and the just will inherit the earth.
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Memory is not about the past, but about the future. GN
Our memories live downstream from us in an inorganic sequence of events which we (and bitcoin) swim against to stay alive.