JUST IN: Binance Founder CZ says Elon Musk is an "alien."
"My theory is that he is an alien. He wants to return to his home planet, and Mars is just a stepping stone."
The question you're used to asking is:
"Do they have good intentions?"
And if you answer yes, you're inclined to trust.
But evaluatively, presuming you answer yes, this is insufficient, and demands a more rigorous follow up question:
"Do they speak from aspiration, or capacity?"
If they have bad intentions - eliminate.
If they have good intentions with proven capacity - trust.
If they have good intentions with unproven capacity, exercise caution and test for capacity.
If trust is a currency, and intention is the expression of the integrity of that currency - then like real currency it must be backed by something to give it worth, and in human terms, that is capacity (the ability to structurally support, and thus make real and sustainable one’s intention)
The simplest and most important thing you should take from this is:
Intention is not capacity.
This sounds obvious when stated, but is often conflated and as such overlooked in trust calculations.
You can trust someone is good at something, but has bad intentions (this is generally obvious).
Less obvious is that just because you can trust their intentions, doesn’t mean you can trust them. Because they can still, in effect, betray their promises due to a lack of capacity.
In other words: they’re undependable, and so you should be cautious about believing in someone whose aspirations and beliefs exceed their demonstrated capacity, irrespective of how passionately they’re presented.
So to summarise, trust should be split into two dimensions: intention and capacity - do I believe you mean what you say, and if yes, are you actually capable of it? Without a yes to both questions, there cannot be total trust.
Believing someone will do their best or can improve is not the same as blindly believing they can deliver what they claim, just because you like them, want them to, and hope they do.
Make asymmetric bets with extreme upside.
Gamble. Fail a lot. Apply what you’ve learned from past losses, codify experience into wisdom, and transmute pain into potency: then go again.
Failure is the feedback mechanism for improvement, not a reason to give up on yourself.
You are being refined.
@Gathua_Andy@NakamotoSuzka@VkBoit It's 50 horsepower. But around 500cc. Range is about 1600-2500km. Some interceptors cost $2m while the drone costs around $10k. They also fly low-range making it difficult to intercept.
@Gathua_Andy@NakamotoSuzka@VkBoit The speed is 180km/h. The range varies. But so far it has been used against all the 'traitors' ( gulf nations, Iraq, Israel...) and successfully hit their targets. It's interesting some of the drones have manoeuvring capabilities.