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Just assholes pissfighting with other assholes and all the bystanders are forced to pick which asshole they must always agree with
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Do I wanna support the guys who don't understand economics and think Bitcoin is literally the body of Christ or the guy who doesn't understand history and thinks that Bitcoin is secretly a eugenics project Gotta pick one, so hard to choose
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Oh god, turns out he wrote a medium post too He is completely deranged
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HE THINKS EXXON-MOBIL IS BEHIND BITCOIN davetroy.medium.com/january-…
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I'm seeing a lot of otherwise smart and rational people defend this as "the overall point is accurate, crypto is infected with anarcho-capitalist psychos." That's the problem. People are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and ignoring all the obvious red flags.
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You don't want to give conspiracy loons any kind of legitimacy. It feels so good to watch them rip into our enemies, so we let them hollow out our virtues. Eventually the loons are all that's left.
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Holy shit, TIM O'REILLY fell for it nitter.vloup.ch/timoreilly/statu… This is horrifying
Tim O'Reilly
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9 Jan 2022
Additional political (not technical) perspective on #Web3
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And Kelsey Hightower. So many people I respect being tricked by this
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Grady Booch, too
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noooooooooo
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Replying to @hillelogram
A lot of it might just be the “don’t read, just retweet” attitude that many (including myself) are guilty of

Jan 9, 2022 · 7:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
If it helps at all, I liked the first tweet in the storm because I was expecting it to be a fun subversion, then immediately unliked it in horror after reading the next few tweets
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I didn’t fall for this particular case, but for plenty of others. Possibly related:
Dare Obasanjo🐀 @Carnage4Life
8 Jan 2022
Hacker News comments cause the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect for me. Whenever it’s a topic im familiar with most of the comments are condescendingly arrogant and wrong. Yet when I know nothing about the topic I assume I’m getting high quality knowledge from experts.
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