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> It's difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on them not understanding it. It's not just that. It's also plain stupidity
by tivert 2y ago
> It's difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on them not understanding it.
It's not just that. It's also plain stupidity and the delusion to think you can live in a fantasy land of your own creation, and the whole world has to play along with you. IIRC, the people running one of these DAO organizations didn't understand the difference between owning a copy and owning the copyright to the work, and massively overpaid for a copy before they figured it out (https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a38815538/dune-crypto-nft-sale-mistake-explained/ https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a38815538/dune-c...).
- drewcoo 2y agoThoroughly agree. I've had many conversations with self-described "smart" "autodidacts" who claimed to understand entire fields better after essentially zero study than people who worked in those fields for a lifetime. They couldn't understand that other smart people studied (often in universities) and devoted years of practical work in those areas and who communicate with one another and might possibly understand what they were doing better than an isolated neophyte.
- tivert 2y agoThat's also a symptom "engineer's disease," where some engineer confuses their expertise in one area (e.g. programming) for expertise in all areas, and proceeds to swagger around like an idiot who thinks his every dumb idea is gold because he knows better than everyone else. Usually the dumb idea is just to assume everything is really, truly like the one thing he knows, and all those stupid experts in the other area somehow just missed that. DAO organizations are a perfect example of that, because their proponents really want code and law to be the same thing (code), without really understanding what the law does and how it is different.