A thing I posted on the no-longer-bird app a few years ago. I feel like I keep encountering this phenomenon to this day:

customer support @supercast

trying to sound smart /doingnumbers

The example that motivated making this originally was the bitcoin block size debate.

Setting x = e/acc and realizing I've watched the right side play out 😂

Political teaching of Plato/Aristotle:

A city will not be set free from evils unless a Gray Soul (philosopher) learns to speak Gray Ideas (truth) in the form of Blue Language and/or Red Language (political rhetoric).

What's an Ethereum-related example of this "High X only" mentality?

For me this is about AI safety. So many minmaxers, so few geodesics

especially true on twitter. feel this very much. fanaticism or nothing :(

Perfect example of in-group out-group social dynamics + the Semmelweis reflex

Perfect example of in-group out-group social dynamics + the Semmelweis reflex

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex

The nature of "Maxis" explained in a picture