EDIT: Do stop by sometimes though. Lulz await.
Free feel to pass on my question, so he can prepare.
Q: who here in this circle-jerk sycophant orgy supports the delusion of ideal money, given that Buttcoin is an anti-fragile standard top-down controlled by whales? Ideal for whom?
No need to wait for the lulz.
Although I am coming to the viewpoint that whales are locked into a threat of mutual self-destruction so they must and will defend Bitcoin's security and to the realization that any whale of even moderate size can act alone to defend Bitcoin for as long as the other whales don't defect (defection which would be mutual self-destruction), this does not resolve long-tail externalities which force whales to defect. Any top-down controllable system can't remain perpetually in Nash equilibrium for a Nash equilibrium says nothing about how the long-term system structure changes over time w.r.t. the external environment.
Readers, the name of MP's website is taken from dilemma and trilemma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinityBtw, this blog post by MP on
the reality of money, goes directly to the heart of my thesis. Knowledge (creation) is the real power money, i.e. the standard metric by which everything else is measured (that holy grail standard that the Nash and Hayek ideal money theories seek). But knowledge (creation) is not fungible, so we can't transfer it directly. The fungible bits we use to transfer utility are just a decentralized means for informationally determining who has the most knowledge.
Money doesn't need to physically leave your clawy grasp, it will just revalue itself so as to bring whatever volume you hold in line with its correct relative value. In this perspective, inflation in the US is not something that can be avoided, and not something that's done by politicians : it's just money reacting to the problem that a lot of it is held by comparatively very lame people. In general inflation is always the companion of societies that used to be cool but aren't anymore.
It doesn't really matter what those fungible bits of money information represent, as long as society decides they are a representation of the values of the society so that the information communication by the transfer of money promotes the values of the society (which if you think about it is a sad commentary on the state of our society now at peak socialism):
The ability to transfer wealth was crucial during many events critical to the Darwinian fitness of evolving humans, especially death (inheritance), dispute settlement, and marriage. With the Yurok and their neighboring tribes, this wealth typically took the form of collectibles that lacked concrete use – either non-fungible treasure, which came in a variety of forms, or fungible money in the form of dentalia shells and strings of same. The use of money and treasure in some transactions (e.g. for use mitigating violence) made it available and encouraged its use in others (e.g. trade).
High finance can apply more leverage (aka acceleration) to this process, and thus rewards those who do it successfully with more fungible bits than those who are not successfully leveraged.
My thesis is that those fungible bits are becoming more and more incapable of representing most of the knowledge (creation) in the world. The signaling mechanism is shifting from one of fungible monetary transfer to one of direct knowledge exchange in an Inverse Commons.
Those fungible bits were much more relevant when our human production was mostly tied up in fixed capital investment.
Now as the fungible bits shrink in relative relevance of value, MP's skills of leveraged high finance are diminishing in value relatively speaking (although the old world industrial economy is still quite large, so he is a wealthy mofo and obviously very smart).
If it is very impossible to get leveraged economies-of-scale when the underlying unit of money is non-fungible. One day high finance lords will actually have to work hard again for a much smaller relative proportion of the economy. And that will happen because it will be a much more accurate representation (i.e. less fragile fitness to) of the actual power money: knowledge.
My
Rise of Knowledge, Demise of Finance essay has predated by years any published works of MP on the similar conceptualization (and I was sick with the early stage delirium of disseminated/abdominal/lymph-nodes (not extensively pulmonary) Tuberculosis when I wrote that). So you judge for yourself who has the superior long-term strategy and consequently who the lulz is about. I think MP is quite thrilled to meet his match. Life was getting rather boring for him. But I am no match for MP's language skills and thus probably not a very interesting friend for him. MP's interests and mine diverge quite sharply. What the fuck use of a man if he can't compete (joust) with me in sports or synergize with me in coding (neither of which MP excels at). No offense really. Just not very interesting for me after I deduced his role. Hey but maybe I just need to get to know the dude.
MP knows who I am. He contacted me in 2013 in a PM on this forum about tortilla. He just forgot.