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Interesting. This kind of dont-understand-therefore-fill-in-the-gaps-with-magic is the same mental shortcut that would lead you to believe that cryptocurrency i

Interesting. This kind of dont-understand-therefore-fill-in-the-gaps-with-magic is the same mental shortcut that would lead you to believe that cryptocurrency is a good thing.

vixen99 2y ago
Well of course Shakespeare got it wrong with ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’. At least, that's seems to be the acceptably prevalent view.
- card_zero 2y ago
  That was Hamlet, wanting to believe in ghosts, so that his dead dad could reveal that he'd been poisoned in the ear, for the purpose of the plot. So yeah, in the original context it was some paranormal investigator or Scooby Doo level of crap. But subsequently people have picked it up and made it deep and meaningful due to having been wrote by The Bard. Even so, what do we want it to mean? That just about anything could maybe be discovered one day, therefore we can imagine arbitrary things right now and say they're real? Doesn't follow.
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monero-xmr 2y ago
My primary reason I like cryptocurrency is it takes money out of the hands of government, which is run by people and is therefore fallible
- alpaca128 2y ago
  Every component of cryptocurrencies, every crypto exchange etc is created and run by fallible people as well. And as could be seen with the FTX debacle the outcome was basically the same but without helpful government regulations.
  - monero-xmr 2y ago
    I trust the source code and decentralized network of miners doing 1 thing - securing the network with predictable emissions policy - over the central bank and politicians
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nipah 2y ago
Why there is nothing rather than nothing? This is, I fear to tell you, IMPOSSIBLE to explain by other than methaphysics, it is an uncloseable "gap" that humanity will never solve. As far as I know, it's not about gaps, it's more about the unreasonable stance that everything is explainable by reductionist physics that corrupts the modern thinking, it is more safe for you to assume people's religious beliefs come from "gaps" rather from their own rationality. In reality, you just turned science into your own religion.

Interesting. This kind of dont-understand-therefore-fill-in-the-gaps-with-magic is the same mental shortcut that would lead you to believe that cryptocurrency is a good thing.

vixen99 2y ago

Well of course Shakespeare got it wrong with ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’. At least, that's seems to be the acceptably prevalent view.

card_zero 2y ago
That was Hamlet, wanting to believe in ghosts, so that his dead dad could reveal that he'd been poisoned in the ear, for the purpose of the plot. So yeah, in the original context it was some paranormal investigator or Scooby Doo level of crap. But subsequently people have picked it up and made it deep and meaningful due to having been wrote by The Bard. Even so, what do we want it to mean? That just about anything could maybe be discovered one day, therefore we can imagine arbitrary things right now and say they're real? Doesn't follow.

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monero-xmr 2y ago

My primary reason I like cryptocurrency is it takes money out of the hands of government, which is run by people and is therefore fallible

alpaca128 2y ago
Every component of cryptocurrencies, every crypto exchange etc is created and run by fallible people as well. And as could be seen with the FTX debacle the outcome was basically the same but without helpful government regulations.
- monero-xmr 2y ago
  I trust the source code and decentralized network of miners doing 1 thing - securing the network with predictable emissions policy - over the central bank and politicians

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nipah 2y ago

Why there is nothing rather than nothing? This is, I fear to tell you, IMPOSSIBLE to explain by other than methaphysics, it is an uncloseable "gap" that humanity will never solve. As far as I know, it's not about gaps, it's more about the unreasonable stance that everything is explainable by reductionist physics that corrupts the modern thinking, it is more safe for you to assume people's religious beliefs come from "gaps" rather from their own rationality. In reality, you just turned science into your own religion.