@GrassFedBitcoin The consensus you need for a soft fork also depends on the threat level of doing nothing, which is very low now. If things were seriously breaking and nobody had a solution, or split solutions, then a small minority could win.
@micsolana Lets not pretend 40% income tax is perfectly normal compared to a 2% wealth tax. Both are just as evil. Just because one hits VCs doesn't make it worse
@ToKTeacher Taking a theory seriously is just a subjective psychological state according to CR, like 'belief' ?
Or can we admit epistemology is about how we as humans objectively know things
@DavidDeutschOxf If people choose to fight no evil has any chance of conquering anything. Nazism itself is an unnecessary capitulation by the good portion of the German people.
All the meat is really in the possibility of capitulation
@oElementz Some people hate the idea that newer things have made no progress or gotten worse. Remaking old stuff hints that it might be true, even that offends them
@ConjectureInst@Jaber_Hassoun The idea of gravity is a complex abstract concept which requires a huge set of observations to derive, along with much thinking and creativity.
Observations are the starting point of the most basic knowledge, they don't automatically give you higher level concepts