My greatest mistake was to put economics first and not to u…
My greatest mistake was to put economics first and not to understand the psychological processes that cause people to resist economics. These processes are so strong that they are suicidal. If I had understood this, then I would have known that everything I liked about Bitcoin would be unappealing to most people and I would have known that BSV would not be more appealing than BTC.
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i had a naïveté like this. i thought that people who disagreed with me would only need to see more information about how they were wrong. what i didn't realize was that people's positions are much more about tribal identity, emotional safety, and fear of change/comfort seeking
in some ways the information-market parts of treechat are a reflection of my evolution on these questions
the idea being that just showing the information is not enough, you have to illustrate your conviction with a costly signal