0xen 🎩
@0xen
public ledgers, open source, DAOs, CC0 are all far left coded ideals. curious how the more right leaning crypto space squares these bedrock concepts.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
A couple anti-far-left aspects of crypto: Far left is pro censorship (when they are the ones doing it), and crypto is perfected censorship resistance. Far left is pro government-based ownership (when they are the ones doing the owning), and crypto is perfected individual ownership. However, the fact that crypto has ideals from both sides is something I love about it. But I believe it is well on its way to becoming heavily "right coded" in political reality.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
agreed but i think censorship goes both ways, depending
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Very true in the circle theory sense (that all opposite radicalisms begin to resemble each other). I think it's not accidental that libertarianism tends to be more incompatible with the left than the right.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
i'm thinking of all the censorship stuff form the last 100 years in the states (Hays Code etc.) and that was all coming from the right.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Agree, if we extend the time horizon of what we're describing with "left"/"right' things look pretty different. (Actually do this over centuries and we it will not resemble our current meaning of these words at all, but in a way that is very interesting and revealing) My thinking in all this stuff is pretty skewed to the last 10-20 years, in the US Centric left. This is partially due to bias of course but also bc this is the piece that feels relevant in the sense that it's actionable
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