57 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 4 Oct 2023 \ parent \ on: Lyn Alden book club part I bitcoin
I'm glad @k00b is here. I'd be interested to know his take on the Szabo article, and even if he read it while designing SN incentives.
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798 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 5 Oct 2023
I haven't read it! I'm woefully under-indexed on Szabo. I once converted his entire site into an ebook but only read a few essays and this wasn't one.
bookmarked!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 5 Oct 2023
It's one of the best, content-wise, but he writes so dryly that people bounce off. I bounced off a number of times, and I have a really high appetite for dry academic nerdery.
Before Broken Money I would have said it was absolutely worth powering through. I'm less sure about that now.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 5 Oct 2023
he writes so dryly that people bounce off
This was my experience as well. Maybe ChatGPT could cheer his work up a bit.
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