Argumentative Bear

Unrepentant Capitalist. Swears eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Likes honey.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

The only way to hold Bitcoin with conviction is to understand money.
The only way to understand money is to study the history of money.

Now's your chance.
My wife and I wrote a book:
Shells to Satoshi: The Story of Money and the Rise of Bitcoin
Website:shellstosatoshi dot com

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@adam3us This is an insidiously terrible argument. You’re posturing as a free speech advocate when you’re really attacking freedom of association. We get to choose ad blockers on our browsers, which email addresses to block, and which node to run. Thats the beauty of decentralization.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@HomericFuturist Communism is attractive to resentful people with low self esteem because it makes them believe and rage that success comes from the unfairness of being born into power and privilege instead of effort, creativity, thoughtfulness and the ideas that make you believe it’s possible.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

Every 4 years, a group of presidential candidates is asked who their favorite president is. And every candidate answers Washington or Lincoln, or if they want to score with the base, Reagan or FDR. Can you imagine the kind of candidate that would answer Coolidge? He would have to know his history, be thoughtful enough to have considered the question before, and independent enough to not care that he wasn’t answering with Reagan or FDR.

It actually happened last cycle with @RonDeSantis, but the primary electorate cared more about completing a narrative arc than they cared about listening to ideas and hearing open debate.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

Truth.

[Deanna Heikkinen 👩‍🏫 ₿ 📚🦉 @dinparis2012]

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[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@AlexFinn What are you going to do in two weeks when you have to spend thousands of dollars for the same loops?

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

All the wide eyed enthusiastic discussion about Fable 5 is going to turn to rage in two weeks when Anthropic switches to a pay as you go model. Expect to see a lot of fist pounding about unfairness, gaps between haves and have-nots, and how the government needs to get involved.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@DowdEdward @jeffreytucker We are not talking enough about how Obamacare made COVID tyranny not just more likely but inevitable. How many independent minds were forced out of medicine because they were replaced with checkbox filling drones? They got rid of all the good ones that would’ve said no.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@brivael This is also a framework that, depending on which side you’re on, is either creative, optimistic, trusting, loving, and happy, or full of envy, resentment, negative, and bitter.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@AlTheBoss03 Edgar.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@Giovann35084111 Propositions that end with an infinite regress are not intended to provide an answer for anything. They’re intended to give you cover so you can plausibly stop asking questions.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@porterstansb Nope.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@JuliaEMcCoy @TimothyRyans This is a dangerously misleading false dichotomy. You teach kids how to think by starting them with memorization. Dinosaur names, state capitals, multiplication tables, poetry. They have to have something to think ABOUT before they can think.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@JuliaEMcCoy @TimothyRyans This is a dangerously misleading false dichotomy. You teach kids how to think by starting them with memorization. Dinosaur names, state capitals, multiplication tables, poetry. They have to have something to think ABOUT before they can think.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@TheSports_Shift Stan Gelbaugh

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@simplyseattle

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

Calling Trump evil is kind of beside the point, isn’t it? If you could have an honest conversation with an average Trump supporter, they might admit in their heart of hearts that he’s evil, but also he’s THEIR evil. After all, the world is beyond redemption, anyone who plays by the rules is a sucker, and it’s about time “we” got someone who’ll do whatever it takes to stand up for us after generations of leftist destruction and the nice guy establishment republicans sold us out. Why do you think he won over so many American Christians? They already think they live in a fallen, irredeemable world. Trump is the greatest avatar for their nihilism. They’re perfectly happy with him being evil. It’s what they voted for.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@BeGaudion Wait, what?

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@BrendaFrost18 @ofcrdeonjoseph How do people not know this by now? We’ve had over ten years of political life by this guy, plus decades of celebrity.
I’m convinced that Trump is an avatar that his supporters project their unfalsifiable fantasies into, and his own actions will never dissuade them.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@BrendaFrost18 @j_fishback Basically, he’s the @VivekGRamaswamy of the Florida GOP primary.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

@DiscussingFilm Evil goddamn bastards.

[Argumentative Bear @traderjoel]

It sounds great, but real learning isn’t passive acceptance of any presentation, whether it’s a book, a website entry, or a slick video.
It’s going back to original sources, validating facts on your own. Reproducibility, cross checking, and proof of work, the first step, not the last.