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I'm actually not sure how. What makes a forgery worth less than the original?

• paulcole 5y ago
  Worth less and worthless are two very different things.
  • rhn_mk1 5y ago
    But they aren't they related? There's clearly some dilution of value between an original and a forgery. I'm positing that NFTs are even more divorced from "originality" than forgeries – by a factor terrible enough to make them worthless. But I'm not good enough to disentangle the mystery of originality and put the problem in concrete terms.
    • paulcole 5y ago
      > I'm positing that NFTs are even more divorced from "originality" than forgeries – by a factor terrible enough to make them worthless. But what does “worthless” actually mean? Does it mean something you happen to personally dislike? Does it mean something else?
      • rhn_mk1 5y ago
        When I say "worthless", I mean "close to 0 on the extension of the scale that stretches from an original to forgery".