you ever have an experience of reading someone's opinion and it causing you to rethink all the previous opinions of theirs?

The only problem is externality pricing.

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researching evolution & collective intelligence

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Wow, so rhetorical. There are good arguments against Bitcoin, this is not one of them.

That happened recently to me here:

https://x.com/harari_yuval/status/1792934757325553797

The PC is mostly a B2B technology. No consumer wants a large beige box with screen either. Companies make them because other companies use them. PCs are a machine tool for the mind — a productivity device rather than a consumer toy.

This guys opinions are so consistently annoying to me I blocked him rofl

Credibility is hard to gain and easy to lose

I dunno. I like enough of his writing to be ok disagreeing with him, especially on this.

yes, but it never happens for noah because I‘m disagreeing with basically all his takes

he just seems so partial, feel like he‘d a passportless armchair economist

how dare he speak for me
of course i want a goddamn lathe or drill press, and i have no commercial use cases for either