It would be a naive and non-Saylor-podcast-glorydays pleb who thinks Saylor doesn't know exactly what he's doing and what his plan is.
Chaos along the way of course.
To that, I like the narrative that he's testing, because it implies stages (as you noted), which implies he's smarter than us.
100% chance he's got a "marketing and propaganda" campaign planned for the world. Psyops don't have to be negative. They just are.
@SatoshiPowPow@BitcoinErrorLog@LynAldenContact@adam3us@GeorgeGammon Tax harvest.
Test what the reaction is before the announcement of the REAL sell.
Test market narrative diversity.
Appease regulators that the value of BTC is actually liquid under their new rules.
At least 3 other reasonable ones, likely.
Choose your own adventure...
@bradmillscan Thx, this is useful!
I just had a random coffee with some (I think) rich guy who wanted me to build a private ai thing for him. I've never had to worry about super private before, so this will have to be a bit of a rabbit hole for me.
Depends on the context.
Had a gf who wouldn't cross at red lights. I said, "red lights are IQ tests. Suggestions from the government. Don't get a Darwin award, but if it's 3am and nobody is out, davai"
Doesn't matter what society thinks in that example.
But we're social creatures, and "society considers" is a requirement to be in the tribe.
With a straight face he said "Austrian economists ignore the data". And fully dismissed the entire framework for thinking about the world.
"Austrians ignore data" is the strawman attack by Keynesians. It's the doorman into the party--you failed the test, my friend. You are missing the real fun inside!
Maybe let's stop treating human beings as statistics and graphs, and start analyzing from the perspective of individual's actions. Is that ignoring data? Sorry I'm not a 1 or a 0, but your ideology is lacking.
32:00 @HeatherEHeying , no, they "can't do basic math". It's not their brain's fault tho. This is the "calculation problem" in the same venn diagram as why socialism fails. You literally can't do basic math on a yard stick that keeps changing. Monterey policy makes it impossible to do basic business calculations. The unpredictability is too big.
Bret, please try to talk w @Breedlove22 or similar.
Bret, @HeatherEHeying , it's not the "Democrat party" that's become unholy as a wealth extractor--it's the counterfeit class in general. They all want to be Cantillionaires.
Politics is downstream from money.
The money is broken.
The unpredictability is in monetary policy and rampant inflation caused by easy money.
@BrianSchmidt9@chrismartenson I'm surprised to hear somebody like you say such a thing.
We can't ignore them to make them go away. There used to be no television 200 years ago, and that did no good.
* If you give a man a fish, he eats forever; if you teach a man to fish, he eats for a day *
That's literally the philosophy of our economic think tanks. They tremble in their beds thinking about the possibility of deflation.
The big bad boogeyman.
But the ENTIRE point of civilization is deflation. Think about it. If you're alone on an island you have to do ALL the work to catch a fish. It could takes hours, and you won't always be successful. The division of labor fixes this. A fishing rod is a technology that makes fishing more efficient. That's deflation: the removal of excess.
Civilization REQUIRES deflation. Civilization IS deflation. The computer you're reading this on is the result of centuries of deflationary technology. Instead of an abacus we have microchips. Deflation of effort.
But somehow if money itself deflates that's the end of civilization?
Make it make sense.
"Ottawa is fiscally irresponsible and now headed down a very dangerous path of authoritarianism with all the bills that were passed in this parliamentary session. "
-So is almost every country.
"Once you’ve looked close enough at the system, you realize it can’t be fixed and there’s no coming back from realizing the true extent of the mess Canada is in. "
-So is almost every Western country.
"The Canada we grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is a sinking ship "
-So is almost every country.
"and independence is the only way to save Alberta."
-I balk at the word "only", even if you're just being hyperbolic for emotional reasons.
If USA, UK, Canada, Australia, et al. are having half the population saying "JFC You voted for THAT guy?!" and the other half saying "JFC You voted for THAT guy!?", and everybody thinking the other team will destroy the universe thru authoritarianism....one two skip a few...then it seems to me the diagnosis of the problem is wrong.
The issue isn't politics, per se. It's not policy A or policy B. There's something bigger going on. Something more foundational than which party you vote for.