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What I love about cryptocoins is that so many "book smart" people hate them. Bringing up the topic is an awesome way to find out who's stubborn and closed minde

by compare 13y ago

What I love about cryptocoins is that so many "book smart" people hate them. Bringing up the topic is an awesome way to find out who's stubborn and closed minded. Lately I've been using this topic as my "VC test" to decide what VCs I want to work with in my company's next round of investment, and my startup has nothing at all to do with cryptocoins :-)

tptacek 13y ago
My comment was subtle perhaps to the point of being cryptic, but there was actual logic to it. Even if I was a believer in cryptocurrency, the comment I responded to was problematic. Your comment, on the other hand, simply asserts that anyone who hates cryptocurrencies is "stubborn and closed minded". That might be true, but for such an inflammatory argument, you probably want some evidence to support it. Good luck with A16Z. :)
- compare 13y ago
  So there's logic behind the emotion, eh? :) Something eliminates the unknown and just leaves clear facts and logic? Yes, this is perfectly what I mean. I'm most impressed by the very smart man who is able to say "I just don't know". Book smart people you'll meet will usually reduce their world down to just 2 options: good or bad, will succeed or will fail. Where's the 3rd option? -- unknown, unknowable, we will see, no emotions because I just don't know. Admittedly, for most of my life I was never able to find a reason to believe that this 3rd option is a real thing. I always felt that "unknown" is just a temporary placeholder and that the answer is always really there, somewhere, if you're smart enough to see it. Never in all of my schooling was "unknowable and there's nothing we can do to find out" a legitimate answer. Well, I'm not telling anyone how to think. I'm just fascinated that some people think in these 2 modes, and some in 3.
  - tptacek 13y ago
    If you understand the logic I was employing, your comment gives no sign of that. Epistemology is fun, but it's a tangent.

by compare 13y ago

tptacek 13y ago

My comment was subtle perhaps to the point of being cryptic, but there was actual logic to it. Even if I was a believer in cryptocurrency, the comment I responded to was problematic. Your comment, on the other hand, simply asserts that anyone who hates cryptocurrencies is "stubborn and closed minded". That might be true, but for such an inflammatory argument, you probably want some evidence to support it. Good luck with A16Z. :)

compare 13y ago
So there's logic behind the emotion, eh? :) Something eliminates the unknown and just leaves clear facts and logic? Yes, this is perfectly what I mean. I'm most impressed by the very smart man who is able to say "I just don't know". Book smart people you'll meet will usually reduce their world down to just 2 options: good or bad, will succeed or will fail. Where's the 3rd option? -- unknown, unknowable, we will see, no emotions because I just don't know. Admittedly, for most of my life I was never able to find a reason to believe that this 3rd option is a real thing. I always felt that "unknown" is just a temporary placeholder and that the answer is always really there, somewhere, if you're smart enough to see it. Never in all of my schooling was "unknowable and there's nothing we can do to find out" a legitimate answer. Well, I'm not telling anyone how to think. I'm just fascinated that some people think in these 2 modes, and some in 3.
- tptacek 13y ago
  If you understand the logic I was employing, your comment gives no sign of that. Epistemology is fun, but it's a tangent.