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Funny how he started something, then change his mind about, then started advocating how everyone who still haven't changed their mind is wrong.
by throwawayswede 5y ago
Funny how he started something, then change his mind about, then started advocating how everyone who still haven't changed their mind is wrong.
- oefnak 5y agoWhat is wrong with changing your mind? If you never do that, how can you learn anything?
- killingtime74 5y agoThat’s entirely consistently no?
- throwawayswede 5y agoNo. It's hypocritical at best.
- bendiksolheim 5y agoAre people not allowed to change their opinion? It seems to me that this is a person who once believed something, but later has gotten proof that what they believed was wrong and then changed their mind. This is a good thing, not at all hypocritical.
- yladiz 5y agoChanging your mind is hypocritical, your opinions must be kept consistent and non changing no matter what. Really though, it's surprising that a lot of people have this same knee-jerk reaction to someone having an opinion and then changing it when making a comment (here, Reddit, etc.). Obviously it's not great to change your opinion with the wind or to simply please others but it's sad that any form of changing your opinion is seen as negative. Even for people that I would trust to be authorities on the subject like Jackson Palmer are not given the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's a natural reaction to someone who doesn't conform to the group mentality on some subject.
- Mentoio 5y agoCan you clarify how this correlate to the definition of hypocritical? I'm really lost.
- piva00 5y agoDogecoin was created in 2 hours as a satire on how crypto was getting out of the hand. I believe he has been pretty consistent throughout
- mhluongo 5y agoHe's rejoined and left the industry multiple times. While he brings up plenty of valid issues, Jackson could also do with some self-reflection.
- browningstreet 5y agoHis twitter thread seems well considered and reflective.
- rualca 5y ago> He's rejoined and left the industry multiple times. While he brings up plenty of valid issues, Jackson could also do with some self-reflection. It seems to me that his personal journey granted him a privileged vantage point to talk about this topic, with more insight than the vast majority of people. Clearly, if anyone did that exercise in self-reflection, it was him. Don't you agree? And why is he, of all people, the one being singled out and required to meet all those high bars?
- louis___ 5y ago> He's rejoined and left the industry multiple times. [...] Jackson could also do with some self-reflection. Changing your mind about something is a sign of open-mindedness, not lack of self-reflection
- dmos62 5y agoA smart man once said, "I'd rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever." It was Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys, when confronted about going from sexism in their early content to defending gender equality later in life.
- RedComet 5y ago
- NicoJuicy 5y agoChanging your opinion when discovering new info is a sign of intelligence. That's very different than the crypto lovers that don't change their opinion because of greed.
- rualca 5y agoI'd take that these "crypto holders" are indeed able to change their opinions, but for that they also need to change their investments on crypto.
- throwawayswede 5y ago> ... crypto lovers that don't change their opinion because of greed. Making blanket statements like this is a sign of stupidity
- jenoer 5y agoYou get exposed to information, you adjust your views, you try to inform others. Without this cycle we would have never gotten out of the Stone Age.
- wcoenen 5y agoProgress can still be made, one funeral at a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
- Mentoio 5y agoRight? And then just changes his own mind after reevaluating it all and standing behind it and not being ashamed or anything. And then advocating for something which makes logically sense to help other who don't follow to deep into the topic itself. Awesome person :)
- jl2718 5y agoSorry, what is he advocating ‘for’?
- Mentoio 5y agomight be to strong as a word, but his thread has a clear message. I would have described this to advocate against crypto.
- jl2718 5y agoI don't really understand the 'advocacy against' part of that. Aside from the lexical contradiction, it seems there's no actionable purpose. What does he want people to do or not do? And what will be the result if they do?
- analognoise 5y agoTo not get involved in crypto, because of the effects it has, who is pushing it and why. It sounds like he's (successfully)advocating against participating in crypto to me.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> not being ashamed or anything I don't see what he has to be ashamed about? Nobody died. He created a thing as a joke, took it seriously, looked at it seriously and re-evaluated the pursuit. He comes out wealthier and wiser.
- maxnoe 5y agoDogecoin was created as satire, so it's fully consistent, right?
- arcticbull 5y agoOne of my favorite tweet/relies with co-creator Billy Markus: > @TerrysFishyTips: Billy when you made #doge coin did you try to consider energy usage or was that not something you thought about? How can the dev community make doge more efficient? > @BillyM2K: i made doge in like 2 hours i didn't consider anything [edit] So with this in mind, no, I don't find their position hypocritical. I quite enjoy following Billy's twitter. It's one of the most friendly/positive in the space, he's clearly trying to uh, do only good everyday if you will. [1] https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1392952014854778883?s=20 https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1392952014854778883?s=20
- swinglock 5y agoIt's admirable how dedicated he is as a satirist.
- leoc 5y agoDoge was created as a joke, but it seems that Markus and Palmer quickly got a lot more serious about it, probably because its market cap exploded. Palmer only left the project in early 2015, which would mean that he was involved through the whole of 2014 when Dogecoin was a genius-level marketing phenomenon: that was the period of the original NASCAR sponsorship, for instance. The guy is of course entitled to change his mind, but he has absolutely changed his mind.
- aaron695 5y agoPeople are still doing it as satire just with billions of $ and people making a profit. Elon Musk could have picked anything, he picked Dogecoin because... satire. I think people still don't get in an inter-connected world for 7 billion people and losing established religions and other old mind memes jokes are worth billions, people will lose and gain lives over them, they will spend parts of their lives centred around jokes. They won't go to church, community markets or medieval fairs, they'll go to Dogecoin stores, why not? Dogecoin was just a cookie cutter crypto with marketing and I would think mostly others took his idea and meme'ed it to the moon. He can change his mind, but it still is what is was day one.
- esja 5y ago“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?” — John Maynard Keynes
- codehalo 5y agoDo facts change? fact /fakt/ noun: fact; plural noun: facts a thing that is known or proved to be true.
- dmos62 5y agoDoes what is known or what is proved change?
- saalweachter 5y ago"Alternatively, fact may also indicate an allegation or stipulation of something that may or may not be a true fact, (e.g., "the author's facts are not trustworthy"). This alternate usage, although contested by some, has a long history in standard English."
- randomswede 5y agoSometimes, yes. 40 years ago, the following was a fact: "There is a country in Europe named Yugoslavia". It is clearly not true anymore. So, existence proof that facts can change.
- phasnox 5y agoNo. Because facts are time constrained. You are talking about two different facts.
- chillingeffect 5y agoa fact is a metastatement and thus subject to unprovability. not guaranteed unproveable but potentially unproveable whether it's proveable.
- randomswede 5y ago
- CerealFounder 5y agoWorse yet, this culture of shaming people for changing their minds/position is embarrassingly unintellectual and socially dangerous. Its one the most toxic attributes leftover from old timey gender role ideas.