Following your retort to "fix the money, fix the world", I find it interesting and fascinating that for a culture built explicitly on a consensus algorithm we never discuss social consensus and what advertising — and the ideology of revealed preferences that underpins it — has been doing to our species since the 1840s and the 'penny dreadfuls' or 'penny press'.
Engagement based media funded by advertising, with all of the perverse incentives intrinsic to it, is purposely dis-integrating us. Individuals are atomised, dissolving the bonds and the common frames of reference that build empathy and trust, and thus families. But each individual is also treated — and has come to identify as — an atomised series of moments that we call "experiences", completely unmoored from any long-term personal narrative or low time preference. The integrated, unitary self across time does not exist in this parasitic system.
But the same underlying patterns of proof of work can be repurposed to build systems that foster social consensus, although not absolute, not deterministic, not perfect. But Bitcoiners want to defect, they don't want to fix anything. They want bitcoin the way a billionaire tech bros wants a bunker, and Elon wants Mars.
There is enough capital and intelligence in the bitcoin community to solve this, but there isn't the will, because Bitcoiners are as nihilistic as the society we critique.
Following your retort to "fix the money, fix the world", I find it interesting and fascinating that for a culture built explicitly on a consensus algorithm we never discuss social consensus and what advertising — and the ideology of revealed preferences that underpins it — has been doing to our species since the 1840s and the 'penny dreadfuls' or 'penny press'.
Engagement based media funded by advertising, with all of the perverse incentives intrinsic to it, is purposely dis-integrating us. Individuals are atomised, dissolving the bonds and the common frames of reference that build empathy and trust, and thus families. But each individual is also treated — and has come to identify as — an atomised series of moments that we call "experiences", completely unmoored from any long-term personal narrative or low time preference. The integrated, unitary self across time does not exist in this parasitic system.
But the same underlying patterns of proof of work can be repurposed to build systems that foster social consensus, although not absolute, not deterministic, not perfect. But Bitcoiners want to defect, they don't want to fix anything. They want bitcoin the way a billionaire tech bros wants a bunker, and Elon wants Mars.
There is enough capital and intelligence in the bitcoin community to solve this, but there isn't the will, because Bitcoiners are as nihilistic as the society we critique.