the tl;dr of is that it's suspected that a few of the old trolls were satoshi having fun.
but I could be wrong (although I highly doubt it)
This person I am thinking of also has been described as "a world class troll" with an internet addiciton by some that have brushed paths with them irl.
I dunno, here's some quotes from their website:
"I am speaking about a research project that is not fully complete since I have not yet written up and submitted for publication any paper or papers describing the work. Also the details of what axioms to use and how to select the basic set theory underlying the hierarchical extension to be constructed are not fully crystallized. I have also a great fear of possible error in studying topics in this area. It is not rare, historically, for systems to be proposed that are either inconsistent or that have unexpected weaknesses. So I feel that I must be cautious and proceed without rushing to a goal. And this psychology of fear has also inhibited me from consulting other persons expert in logic before I could feel that I had gotten my own ideas into good shape."
"This memorandum concerns some ideas for new designs of the control system in high-speed digital computers. The ideas are yet in an immature and rather unspecific form, but this is a subject that deserves some attention and thought for the future. Indeed the idea is more or less futuristic and is more appropriate for the "electronic brains" of the future than for the computers now used, or under construction, or even planned. The basic idea is simple. Instead of having a single control unit sequencing the operations of the machine in series (except for certain subsidiary operations as certain input and output functions) as is now done, the idea is to decentralize control with several different control units capable of directing various simultaneous operations and interrelating them when appropriate."
This man fills every single one of satoshi's markers and more, rewrote economy already, defined the encryption race 50 years ago, and has been touring the world talking about a new kind of money technology and how it is going to give the peoples the power vs government money printing schemes.
“That is how Sherlock Holmes would do it – look for the pattern aided by an author who already knew the answer.” – Ted Nelson
we have we may become irrational in thinking about it and fail to be able to reason about it like about a technology, such as radio, to be
used more or less efficiently.
And so the various currencies managed with "inflation targeting" would be comparable
by users or observers who would be able to form opinions about the quality of the currencies.
And what I want to suggest is that "the public" or the users, those for whom a medium of
exchange functions as a basic utility, may develop opinions that are critical of currencies of
lower "value quality"
...like now the euro, the dollar, the yen, the pound, the swiss franc, the swedish kronor, etc. can be viewed with critical eyes by their
users and by those who may have the option of whether or not or how to use one of them.
This can lead to pressure for good quality and consequently for a lessened rate of inflationary depreciation in value.
We can legitimately wonder how the speediness of its adoption or delays in its adoption
might affect the policies operating to control the actual exchange value...
the authority behind the euro is of the "paper money" character
in that nothing is really guaranteed as far as the value of the euro is concerned. But this is
typical of all currencies used in the world nowadays.
The Keynesians implicitly always have the argument that some good managers can do
things of beneficial value, operating with the treasury and the central bank, and that it is
not needed or appropriate for the citizenry or the "customers" of the currency supplied by
the state to actually understand...
I see this as analogous to how the "Bolshevik communists"... in that while they have claimed to be operating for
high and noble objectives of general welfare what is clearly true is that they have made it
easier for governments to "print money".
...a process of political evolution might lead to the expectation on the
part of citizens in the "great democracies" that they should be better situated to be able
to understand whatever will be the monetary policies which, indeed, are typically of great
importance to citizens who may have alternative options for where to place their "savings".
We know who Satoshi is, nothing is hidden it's all in plain view. It makes 100% perfect sense, each line ....NOW....20 years ago when the lecture was given, it was complete gibberish...how do you explain to a world population that everything is different now because what you are about to do? How do you break it to them slowly before they rip you apart out of fear?
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