A hill I will die on: lots of people suffer from mental health issues bc no one forced them to struggle enough growing up. Struggle builds resilience and is great for you. Life can’t be too easy or every mole hill becomes a mountain.
Nice.
As I wrote in Skin in the Game, the only people annoyed by inequality are the no-skin-in-the-game bureaucrats and professors who envy the class above them. The rest of us worry about mobility.
In an AI world of abundance, scarcity becomes priceless.
Bitcoin doesn’t solve truth — but it solves finality.
When everything can be faked, you value what cannot be forged.
That’s why AI will use stablecoins, but is unlikely to anchor to them long-term.
I had a long, serious conversation with ChatGPT about AI × Bitcoin.
The core insight wasn’t hype — it was about incentives.
AI doesn’t “believe” in Bitcoin. It prefers it operationally.
• AI cares about rule stability, not narratives
• It can model volatility, but not human discretion
• Stablecoins are convenient, but discretionary and revocable
• Bitcoin is machine-comprehensible money: scarce, final, rule-bound
Humans optimize for:
Comfort
Stability
Authority
Familiar systems
AI optimizes for:
Invariants
Predictability
Finality
Minimal entropy
Bitcoin was not designed for AI —
but it accidentally satisfies AI’s strongest preferences.
Why BTC over stables?
The key insight most people miss
AI doesn’t care volatility
It cares rule stability
Humans:
•Fear price
•Prefer stability
AI:
•Models volatility
•Cannot model human intervention reliably
So:
•A volatile rule-bound asset > a stable one
AI makes trust expensive
•Deepfakes
•Synthetic identities
•Fake markets
Bitcoin doesn’t solve truth but it solves finality.
When everything can be faked, you value what cannot be forged
Bitcoin becomes:
The thing you stop arguing about
@durov “…The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration…” - Timothy C. May https://t.co/zOZumFzxu1