As you might imagine, I’ve had some thoughts about this from time to time.
https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1438552267775430662
One reason for this dynamic is payoff asymmetry: you can fairly easily point to who benefits if crypto achieves the dreams of its boosters, and the mechanisms by which they benefit.
Can you sketch out who benefits and mechanically now for skeptics?
Can you sketch out who benefits and mechanically now for skeptics?
*how
Some people I respect have said, effectively, “You’re staking an awful lot of career capital on loud crypto skepticism. In a future where you are unambiguously right, what do you get out of it besides HN karma?”
(Catastrophic failure to understand my utility function.)
Some people I respect have said, effectively, “You’re staking an awful lot of career capital on loud crypto skepticism. In a future where you are unambiguously right, what do you get out of it besides HN karma?”
(Catastrophic failure to understand my utility function.)
Having had a couple of years to ponder this issue in the interim, I don’t think I disagree with what I said below.
Some of my closest friends would say this is the thing I’m most wrong and most obviously wrong about.
Some of my closest friends would say this is the thing I’m most wrong and most obviously wrong about.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/492345237264932864
Obligatory disclaimer, which alludes to some of the issues mentioned in the post: I have a great deal of opinions on a great many topics and the ones I write on Twitter are not (necessarily) those of my employer.
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