Quote from: arklan on June 01, 2018, 09:20:05 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on June 01, 2018, 09:16:52 PM

Quote from: Anon136 on June 01, 2018, 04:25:44 PM

Quote from: infofront on June 01, 2018, 04:08:39 PM

The problem is that most people are stupid and can't think critically.

It's worse than that. I have found that most people can not think abstractly. As soon as I attempt to use abstract reasoning normal people accuse me of changing the subject...

Yeah, because your abstractness transcends into such high levels that no one simple mortal understands your unique brilliance... hahahahahaha.. Go figure? Roll Eyes

eh, i've encountered such people as well... "how the hell did you do that!?" ...i thought about it for a second or two. recent example was something related to the voyager spacecraft and how they'll likely never actually encounter anything because space is so fucking huge and the golden records on them are, therefore, totally pointless. this was in a comment thread about said records, so it was perfectly topical.

I believe that a considerable part of bitcoin involvement does include a need to sort truths from untruths, and whether we are talking merely about economy and financials or talking about national propaganda, there may be some role in there for bitcoin to help peeps to have a more honest system that has more basis in math, rather than governmental or corporatist (or rich people disproportionately calling the shots) propaganda.

I find way more probability that the moon landing and some of that crap about men going to the moon to be a lot less likely to be true than the nonsense that is spouted out about the earth being flat, and yeah there is a whole other thread in this forum that spends a considerable amount of time on flat earth nonsensical theories. But, anyhow with bitcoin, there does seem to come some overall empowerment to the people to be able to attempt to figure out better ways to sort truths from fictions.

By the way, I was busting Anon136's balls over the concept of his self-assertion of abstraction, but on the topic of abstraction, sometimes alt coin pumpers spout out a lot of abstract ideas that sound good, and they use abstraction to bamboosle some folks into their scams... and in that regard, bitcoin does seem to have a bit more concreteness going on in terms of proof of work and network effects that come to support the mere white paper ideas that have little to no actual implementation.