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Re: thought experiment
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kisaku hosoyume
on 14/04/2022, 21:21:49 UTC
I think a genius will always do the unexpected.
as well as satoshi.

That line of reasoning leads to something like this:

"A genius would always do the unexpected.
You did something new and unheard of? Just as I expected! Boring.
You did something bland and normal? I... wasn't expecting that... True genius."

It's the kind of reasoning that thinks that "cow tools" is genius, when it's just cow tools.

Or in other words, it seems like you're projecting an internal fantasy onto other people. It's something people do frequently, and in that sense it's not unusual. But if you want to function better around people you admire, some good advice is to treat them as though they also are "normal" people.

Because they are.

Wasn't that also one of the main messages of the Satoshi statue that got made? That in essence, each one of us is Satoshi? So, are you doing the unexpected? Are you fulfilling your grand plans?

...or are the answers that you would give for yourself something more like "I don't own much bitcoin" and "my current projects are mostly mundane"?

You might think it's unfair to hold you to the same standard as someone like Satoshi, but everyone started somewhere. They got where they are by moving to somewhere else, rather than staying where they started.