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Consensus in this case has a very specific technical meaning. You're trying to start some kind of philosophical discussion but you're not using the right words.
by idiotsecant 4y ago
Consensus in this case has a very specific technical meaning. You're trying to start some kind of philosophical discussion but you're not using the right words.
- rcxdude 4y agoI know what the technical meaning is, but if you're going to argue for the usefulness of crypto you need to argue why the consensus that crypto achieves is actually useful, instead of just acting as if this is obvious.
- idiotsecant 4y agoNo, you don't need to demonstrate that at all. This could just as easily be a decentralized database for counting the number of jellybeans that exist on pluto and that word would still mean the same thing.
- rcxdude 4y agoYes you do. If you wish to argue that 'if crypto then useful', and you want to use the proposition 'if crypto then consensus', then you also need to provide something to support the proposition 'if consensus then useful'. You can substitude jellybeans on pluto or whatever else you want in the middle, the point is there are two steps necessary to the argument and only one is actually well supported.