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108 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 May \ parent \ on: Bitcoin paradigm shift thought experiment bitcoin
I'm in that first thread! Either SN forgot that I zapped a bunch of those comments or I forgot to zap them.
Fifteen years is basically no time at all for a revolutionary technology to take hold. For instance, the steam engine was invented in the early 1700's and it took almost a hundred years for it to be adopted at a transformative scale.
People are fairly comfortable, so it's not reasonable to expect them to upturn their apple carts.
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My sense is that the two are related. I'm a very skeptical person, and the amount of learning I had to do before any of this seemed not completely idiotic was astounding. If it takes, say, ten hours of labor before that happens, then it's not surprising at all that most people's opinions are what they are. If it takes more than ten (which it did for me) then even more so.
That's such an ingrained human tendency that I don't fault you for disliking people over it. I've certainly complained about it in other contexts.
For the most part, we aren't reasoning creatures. We're rationalizing creatures. We recognize that a view might be socially acceptable and we adopt a rationalization for believing it.
For instance, the steam engine was invented in the early 1700's and it took almost a hundred years for it to be adopted at a transformative scale.
Yes. And think how obvious the benefits of the steam engine were, vs btc, solving a problem that many people in the West don't even think they have, whose most vocal advocates are, to most people, insane, using paradigms that make no intuitive sense.
I'm astounding that things are as advanced as they are, honestly.
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