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|content=It’s time. Put distributed computing on a bundle. Stop worshiping the initial blockchain innovation. Time to move to full digital physics with space-time replaced by the networked computers in distributed computing, and by the Observerse in actual physics. We can’t stay here. 🙏
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|content=No. Your job is to liberate physics.
 
Mine, to liberate you. Presumably some of you understand the peril we’re in. We can’t stay here.
 
I didn’t mention Geometric Unity to the 🌎 from the early-mid 1980s until 2013. Let’s see if the Satoshi collective can go that long. #TimeToGo
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|content=But Bitcoiners must stop fetishizing the BTC/USD exchange rate and wealth. Set your sights higher. Become the numeraire. Time to fund the worthy outside your communities. There aren’t many. Become our adults.
 
And also look for an update from me around April Fools day. Hopefully.
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|content=I would however come to any credible meeting about freeing Satoshi’s genius from the loss of anonymity to the ledger that is the blockchain.
 
Bitcoiners are the logical saviors of physics. And post-Einsteinian space travel and local digital conservation laws are out best hopes.
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|content=I have contributed nothing to the vision of distributed computing. I don’t talk much about the essay even.
 
I’m not a Bitcoiner. Keep me apart from that discussion and I will always support you all.
 
People confuse the new as-if physics for money. So I stayed out to do my vision.
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|content=The main use case of Bitcoin is to hedge the competency of Dr Yellen and her colleagues. Did I somehow get that wrong?
 
“Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, saying they are mainly used for illegal financing.”  https://t.co/5woLZ6oQei
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|content=There is one giant pyramid scheme. It just has high multiplicity and different slopes.
 
Medicine looks like Education looks like Law looks like Finance. Etc.
 
Journalism is just one example. Step back.
 
Stop looking at the individual trees when it’s the forest blazing red.
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|content=E.G.O.s  =  Embedded Growth Obligations.
 
The simple theory of universal institutional collapse in a society built around assumptions of growth.


So much so that I want to reciprocate: BTC is one of the most important developments of our lives. I read Allen’s piece. I’d like to engage your community as I take you all very seriously. But I don’t think I am who you see me as being.  
Picture a skyline of Transamerica Buildings and think of all our institutions as pyramids of some kind w/ different slopes.


The important thing is that BTC is a hedge against the manipulation of the world by central banking, economists and corrupt institutions. If you can accept that it is not my religion I can accept that it is without peer among recent inventions: markets ARE the alternative to war.
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Markets are the alternative to tyranny and central control. And having a digital gold is essential. I am not trying to save BTC. I am not trying to introduce a new alternative coin. I am worrying about tyranny and the blockchain as ledger. I am worried about what is to come.


Let us imagine that Governments wake up. That they realize that the way to control what that cannot control is violence. In such a situation, I don’t want a record of all transfers. Even an anonymous record. That’s what I am on about. Perhaps that is misguided. If so: explain.
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|content=I highly encourage people to read this rather aggressive piece.


But telling me that Juan Maldacena is a genius for writing about gauge theory and markets and that I am a mere entertainer who needs to know is place is absurd. Funny actually.
Q: Is this a *highly* respected member of the Bitcoin community? Is this a person who has the universal intellectual trust of the most extreme Bitcoiners?


Tell me bitcoiners: where do you think the great Juan Maldacena got this genius idea? Think about it..
It would require work to respond, so it matters. Thank you.
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|content=He is both haughty and dismissive but also not without some nuance. Seems smart from one read...But it is going to take me off course and I can’t afford to keep arguing the points with moving goal posts. I just don’t know the community well enough. You all tell me. 🙏
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I’ve been on your side...w gauge theory...since well before BTC. Early 1990s. The goal is to disintermediate the institutional players to liberate markets to avoid tyranny. So running me down using bullshit to score points is anti-Bitcoin in spirit. Makes us all look weak & dumb.


Anyway, I would love to learn from your community as well as to share what I know. And I am not looking to introduce a “shitcoin”.
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|content=Anyway, I would love to learn from your community as well as to share what I know. And I am not looking to introduce a “shitcoin”.


But a request: let’s cut the bs displays? It’s corroding us all and we now have a common threat in central banking & rigged markets to defeat. 🙏
But a request: let’s cut the bs displays? It’s corroding us all and we now have a common threat in central banking & rigged markets to defeat. 🙏
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So much so that I want to reciprocate: BTC is one of the most important developments of our lives. I read Allen’s piece. I’d like to engage your community as I take you all very seriously. But I don’t think I am who you see me as being.
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|content=The important thing is that BTC is a hedge against the manipulation of the world by central banking, economists and corrupt institutions. If you can accept that it is not my religion I can accept that it is without peer among recent inventions: markets ARE the alternative to war.
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|content=Markets are the alternative to tyranny and central control. And having a digital gold is essential. I am not trying to save BTC. I am not trying to introduce a new alternative coin. I am worrying about tyranny and the blockchain as ledger. I am worried about what is to come.
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|content=Let us imagine that Governments wake up. That they realize that the way to control what that cannot control is violence. In such a situation, I don’t want a record of all transfers. Even an anonymous record. That’s what I am on about.    Perhaps that is misguided. If so: explain.
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|content=But telling me that Juan Maldacena is a genius for writing about gauge theory and markets and that I am a mere entertainer who needs to know is place is absurd. Funny actually.
Tell me bitcoiners: where do you think the great Juan Maldacena got this genius idea? Think about it..
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|content=I’ve been on your side...w gauge theory...since well before BTC. Early 1990s. The goal is to disintermediate the institutional players to liberate markets to avoid tyranny. So running me down using bullshit to score points is anti-Bitcoin in spirit. Makes us all look weak & dumb.
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|content=What was funny about Allen’s medium piece was that he didn’t catch that he the bitcoiner was being the credentialist. Allen was happily quoting our own original ideas back to us..but via Juan Maldacena. A legacy of credentialism and a failure of “Proof of work”. Hilarious really.
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|content=Yes. But it is “You pl.” My co-discoverer is @PiaMalaney who Maldacena sourced but didn’t (originally) cite.
You can read all about the discovery and burial of Gauge Theoretic economics by the Boskin Commissioners on the Harvard Economics Faculty in “The Physics of Wall Street.”
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|content=You can read all about this attempt to disintermediate legacy economics in the final chapter and epilogue of this best selling book from a few years ago by Jim Weatherall in the time before Satoshi:
https://t.co/oyB3snTBv0
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[Note: I say Ruler because if I say ‘Gauge’ the online BTC community freaks out and thinks it’s under attack from outsider “shitcoiners”. Which it isn’t. But whatever. Toxic fun. They are convinced they don’t speak prose and that BTC & USD aren’t gauges. And hey: Number go up...]
[Note: I say Ruler because if I say ‘Gauge’ the online BTC community freaks out and thinks it’s under attack from outsider “shitcoiners”. Which it isn’t. But whatever. Toxic fun. They are convinced they don’t speak prose and that BTC & USD aren’t gauges. And hey: Number go up...]


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|content=@NathanCPerry I agree. I am not lecturing bitcoiners on the issue. They get it. It’s their issue too. I’m confused. It wasn’t addressed to bitcoiners. It was to the world outside Bitcoin.


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That’s why “number go up” at some level. That should have been clear no? This is absurd.
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|content=@PrometheusAM Respectfully. I’m not one of the BTC fanatics.
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|content=How can a political Left be:  
 
Pro-billionaire and anti-worker?
 
Pro-empathy w ‘fragility’ accusations as its response to pain that cashes out in sky high differential suicide rates.
 
Pro-Science by not permitting questioning of public health/climate?
 
Pro inclusion, anti white.
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|content=Things that are different: Elon, Satoshi, JRE, ML, Bio-Hacking, etc.
 
But dammit, we can’t just burn all the institutions now headed by an extractive leader that we can’t figure out how to fire. We’re *playing* at Revolution when we have to figure out how to oust the extractives.
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|content=The simple answer is we have to stop taking multiple choice solutions. This whole menu of options is wrong from stem to stern.
 
Every day, my main thought is “None of this. None of the above. It’s just the same recycled 15 unworkable ideas that won’t die from the same people.
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|content=Many of you didn’t flee to the Left because of Trump. You stayed and said what needed to be said. Trump wasn’t wrong about everything; he was right about a lot. But he was a real problem.
 
Well Biden/Harris aren’t wrong about everything either. And they represents a real problem.
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|content=Let’s be honest at least: This isn’t the Left. This is a hostile takeover of everything the principled thinking compassionate Left has ever stood for. Period.
 
And to my conservative friends, thanks for the invites. But I’d rather you help get our home invasion under control.
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|content=Anti-McCarthyist, Pro-Cancelation blacklisting.
 
Pro-Diversity w zero-tolerance for viewpoint diversity.
 
Have a Magazine called Mother Jones and spit ‘Deplorables’ on those coal/steel families for whom Mother Jones fought.
 
Want “No more police” protecting. our most vulnerable.
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|content=Rant over. The madness is just getting to me. Thx.
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|content=@PrometheusAM The bitcoin maximalists don’t care for me & are pretty awful to deal with. But they aren’t wrong because they are dicks. They are dicks because it is an amazing invention. Something truly new. You can’t say it’s just same old same old. It’s not my religion, but it’s *astounding*.
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|content=@raw_avocado @Breedlove22 Will check it out. And thanks.
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|content=Some decent criticism of me & my GenX perspectives from the Bitcoiners here. Happy to point to it.
Thanks @Breedlove22. We’re agreed that Bitcoin is a portal. It may even be The Portal so far. I just can’t believe even *that* isn’t enough for BTC-nation:
https://t.co/ExbrrlbWla
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|content=@JimboSamso @Breedlove22 Isn’t that what I am doing here...just as you say?
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True, I’ve never found a shrine to BTC in his home. He has never written a song or prayer to Bitcoin. And I have never seen him lovingly polishing a physical Bitcoin. But for gosh sakes, enough with the insane misrepresentation.  
True, I’ve never found a shrine to BTC in his home. He has never written a song or prayer to Bitcoin. And I have never seen him lovingly polishing a physical Bitcoin. But for gosh sakes, enough with the insane misrepresentation.  
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|content=The first thing though is that we aren’t trying to break light speed. That is likely a fool’s errand.
 
We are asking if it is possible to *evade* it by not taking space-time as fundamental but merely ‘emergent’ or ‘effective’. An important difference.
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|content=I would like to try. That was the idea. But I don’t want to sell it. I want people to understand what it is trying to do.
 
Then they can decide accordingly. Let’s figure it out.
 
Going to try talking to Bitcoiners again to get past some of the silliness. We’ll get there I hope...
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|content=P.S. I have no time frame to give you on central banking actions. I just see a group of people who get into trouble and reach for the same tool. Over and over. And there will always be such trouble until we confront and address the underlying crisis in growth and innovation.
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|content=Don’t let short term losses in Bitcoin sour you on Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing. Don’t let Bitcoin zealots chase you away either.
|content=Don’t let short term losses in Bitcoin sour you on Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing. Don’t let Bitcoin zealots chase you away either.


Figuring out how we hedge against central bankers printing and devaluing fiat currency remains our upcoming rendezvous with the market.
Figuring out how we hedge against central bankers printing and devaluing fiat currency remains our upcoming rendezvous with the market.
 
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We will need to go short the talent, ethics and skill of macro economists, central bankers, investment bankers and financiers.  
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|content=We will need to go short the talent, ethics and skill of macro economists, central bankers, investment bankers and financiers.  


Gold isn’t perfect. Neither is BTC.
Gold isn’t perfect. Neither is BTC.


But we must beware the printing press and calls for relief, easing and stimulus are cries for transfer & dilution.
But we must beware the printing press and calls for relief, easing and stimulus are cries for transfer & dilution.
 
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This is not investment advice. But it is a belief that central bankers through their disguised actions are a threat to all those who hold cash and its close equivalents. Look into BTC, XAU, CHF, XAG,  etc etc etc and make up your own mind. There are risks to all. Good luck.
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|content=This is not investment advice. But it is a belief that central bankers through their disguised actions are a threat to all those who hold cash and its close equivalents. Look into BTC, XAU, CHF, XAG,  etc etc etc and make up your own mind. There are risks to all. Good luck.
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|content=Goldman Sachs executes its first bitcoin derivatives trades https://www.ft.com/content/5ec1d0aa-7992-4fb8-8011-9d7f7b44faac
|content=Goldman Sachs executes its first bitcoin derivatives trades https://www.ft.com/content/5ec1d0aa-7992-4fb8-8011-9d7f7b44faac
|timestamp=10:15 AM ¡ May 7, 2021
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|content=@0K0Y0NNS0N I am not. I didn’t see the full coming future of Bitcoin either at the time. Just a glimpse.
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=@0K0Y0NNS0N My business partner and I.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=@AchimLittlepage Ha!
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The internet (and Twitter in particular) needs better tools for combatting misrepresentation, false claims, inference, rumor, etc.
 
The web is the modern Olympics of misrepresentation. Someone always seems to know what you *really* mean...and they seldom really do.
|timestamp=1:26 AM ¡ May 08, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Have a great weekend.
|timestamp=1:26 AM ¡ May 08, 2021
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=To give an idea of how silly this is, I didn’t even know Peter when Bitcoin came out.
 
If I say something it dignifies the rumor. If I don’t say anything, rumor that I insinuated something goes into circulation...
 
And honestly, this misrepresentation game is just boring as hell.
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Watching the Bitcoin community. Trying to be helpful. https://t.co/qN195UadOt
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|content=If this is changing your opinion of Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing, take heart: it probably wasn’t an opinion on Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing in the first place.
Bitcoin remains a miracle & arguably *the* definitive technological breakthrough of its time. https://t.co/0ZiF907gdJ
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That is usually just before they tell me I don’t get it for asking how #btc solves an issue X.  
That is usually just before they tell me I don’t get it for asking how #btc solves an issue X.  
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|content=@BriefAside It’s in the quote above.
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|content=I’m just repeating what bitcoiners say. You need to clear up this confusion.
They *literally* often tell me “Bitcoin Fixes Everything.” In those three words w/ the certainty of God.


That is usually just before they tell me I don’t get it for asking how #btc solves an issue X. https://t.co/ZlC1TkkCrH
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|content=@JackMahady @Breedlove22 Would love to.
|timestamp=6:50 PM ¡ Jun 04, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=@BriefAside You don’t know who Saylor is?
|timestamp=6:51 PM ¡ Jun 04, 2021
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|content=@ActiveFog @DontyMonis No worries.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|content=CPI is broken. Why?
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Can’t wait to see if #Bitcoin fixes this. Fingers crossed.  


Think of CPI as a gauge like a thermometer. You can’t have politically motivated folks making your thermometers or they can change the design to cover up climate change. Likewise you can’t have economists changing the gauge to disguise the effect of printing.
[I believe the rate has declined since 2015, but is still sky high.]
 
https://t.co/1JFRHStnMg https://t.co/fdtQLgEfZx
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|content=@ActiveFog @DontyMonis I do think Bitcoin can fix a lot. Not always sure where that line is of course until we try. So here we are: Can’t wait to see.
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The economists can’t yet compute a dynamic Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment or COLA or “Chained Changing Preference Ordinal Welfare Konus Index” to be perfectly pedantic. Not because it doesn’t exist. But because they don’t have the math and don’t want to lose their finger on the scale.


We must take CPI away from those who wish to back out a political agenda of printing money, raising our taxes by indexed tax brackets and slashing our indexed social security & Medicare.
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|content=@StopAndDecrypt @NoShitcoinsClub @Rob1Ham @jimmysong @THEAMERICANHODL @jaygould @GoingParabolic @jeetsidhu_ @bigmarh @WbccD Hey: thank you.
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|content=@jeetsidhu_ @StopAndDecrypt @NoShitcoinsClub @Rob1Ham @jimmysong @THEAMERICANHODL @jaygould @GoingParabolic @bigmarh @WbccD I’m open to rethinking my points. I have seen that many Bitcoiners are as well.
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
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|content=@Rob1Ham @jeetsidhu_ @StopAndDecrypt @NoShitcoinsClub @jimmysong @THEAMERICANHODL @jaygould @GoingParabolic @bigmarh @WbccD And we may not disagree as much as we come to understand each other better. And thanks.
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: [[Gauge Theory]] fixes this intellectual corruption problem of economic imperialism, and #btc, blockchains and Crytpo can help.
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|content=[[CPI]] is broken. Why?


Economics can’t construct dynamic economic gauges like CPI/GDP until it learns gauge thy.
Think of [[CPI]] as a gauge like a thermometer. You can’t have politically motivated folks making your thermometers or they can change the design to cover up climate change. Likewise you can’t have economists changing the gauge to disguise the effect of printing.
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|name=sam.frax
|usernameurl=https://x.com/samkazemian
|username=samkazemian
|content=A crypto native [[CPI]] governed on the blockchain to create a decentralized stablecoin people can rely on to keep their standard of living the same across time. A true alternative to fiat rather than a speculative investment asset like most other coins.
|timestamp=6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The economists can’t yet compute a dynamic Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment or COLA or “Chained Changing Preference Ordinal Welfare Konus Index” to be perfectly pedantic. Not because it doesn’t exist. But because they don’t have the math and don’t want to lose their finger on the scale.
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=We must take [[CPI]] away from those who wish to back out a political agenda of printing money, raising our taxes by indexed tax brackets and slashing our indexed social security & Medicare.


But more importantly, we have a culture that economics literally trumpets (and I swear I am not making this up) “Economic Imperialism”. It is “we know math and you don’t”-culture.
Economics can’t construct dynamic economic gauges like [[CPI]]/GDP until it learns [[Gauge Theory|gauge thy]].
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=But more importantly, we have a culture that economics literally trumpets (and I swear I am not making this up) “Economic Imperialism”. It is “we know math and you don’t”-culture.


No. They don’t know their own math. I will debate any high ranking economist on this point.
No. They don’t know their own math. I will debate any high ranking economist on this point.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It’s time to reveal that economics, far from embracing math or having physics envy, is deliberately avoiding solutions to old problems so that it can make up new gauges for [[CPI]]/GDP at will while telling the rest of the soft sciences “We know your field better because we do math.”
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|content=No. Economics is an avoiding gauge theory, connections, Lie Groups, etc so it can retain its political relevance as an expert consultancy. I’m with the crypto folks on this. Our economy must be protected from Seigniorage (printing money) and [[CPI]] tampering (e.g. [[Boskin Commission]]).
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=[[CPI]] should not…MUST NOT…be adjustable to disguise [[Inflation|inflation]]. It needs to be protected from the FED diluting the power of money and the BLS being free to disguise the effects by changing the method of construction.


It’s time to reveal that economics, far from embracing math or having physics envy, is deliberately avoiding solutions to old problems so that it can make up new gauges for CPI/GDP at will while telling the rest of the soft sciences “We know your field better because we do math.”
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1404693228473880576
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=End the forced wealth transfers of central bankers covering up their own failures with “Relief”, “Easing”, “Stimulous”, “Rescues”, “Toxic Asset Purchases”, and other bailouts of our incompetent financial overlords.


No. Economics is a avoiding gauge theory, connections, Lie Groups, etc so it can retain its political relevance as an expert consultancy. I’m with the crypto folks on this. Our economy must be protected from Seigniorage (printing money) and CPI tampering (e.g. Boskin Commission).
We must protect [[CPI]] from economists disguising wealth dilution.
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=P.S. before you remind me how arrogant this sounds, keep in mind, that I am willing to debate this publicly with any leading economist eager to defend the central bankers and triumphalist theorists openly bragging about their math. Read this, and be sick:


CPI should not…MUST NOT…be adjustable to disguise inflation. It needs to be protected from the FED diluting the power of money and the BLS being free to disguise the effects by changing the method of construction.
https://nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7300/w7300.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjCAsXUDvno


End the forced wealth transfers of central bankers covering up their own failures with “Relief”, “Easing”, “Stimulous”, “Rescues”, “Toxic Asset Purchases”, and other bailouts of our incompetent financial overlords.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Q: #BitcoinFixesThis?
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=They can’t take us all.


We must protect CPI from economists disguising wealth dilution.
#WhatDoYouNeedFromMe?
|timestamp=9:40 PM ¡ Jun 16, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1405281650372616192
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I of course warned you that this would happen (That’s why I went on Hiatus). This is how they control.  


P.S. before you remind me how arrogant this sounds, keep in mind, that I am willing to debate this publicly with any leading economist eager to defend the central bankers and triumphalist theorists openly bragging about their math. Read this, and be sick:
The most important thing is that you not be forced into self-censorship through monopolists’ control over your ability to feed  the kids.


https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7300/w7300.pdf
My channel stands open to you.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I’ve had quite enough of our heterodox hating censorious midwit billionaire class. Who the hell are these slightly impressive people? Above average minds in search of a spine? Wow.


Moral: Gauge Theory fixes this intellectual corruption problem of economic imperialism, and #btc, blockchains and Crytpo can help.
Full speed ahead. I don’t have anything yet, but we’ll figure it out.


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|timestamp=9:50 PM ¡ Jun 16, 2021
|name=sam.frax
|usernameurl=https://x.com/samkazemian
|username=samkazemian
|content=A crypto native CPI governed on the blockchain to create a decentralized stablecoin people can rely on to keep their standard of living the same across time. A true alternative to fiat rather than a speculative investment asset like most other coins.
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Let me give other positions so extreme that they are prima-facie disingenuous. 
 
Crypto: Toxic Bitcoin maximalism.
Hyper-Conservatives: We need a strong defense in a dangerous world but also **all** tax is theft.
Etc.
 
All of these are parasitic on someone else being the adult.
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Any soul who truly “identifies as an eagle” would be instantly eliminated by testing the hypothesis. A person who believed that 2+2=5 would be unable to file taxes.
 
“Get woke, go broke” is nowhere near extreme enough. Truly believing in Wokeness would get you jailed…or killed.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Hyper-Unpopular View: I don’t think a single person on earth believes “Woke Ideology”.
|timestamp=9:00 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1406899812734283776
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Further, this is why “inclusion” is at its core as a strategy. Because the remedy for Wokeness wasting the energy of the developed world by boring us to death is to *exclude* it, not on the basis of it being wrong, but because the saboteur must always be excluded from civic life.
|timestamp=9:00 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1406899810209173506
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=My hypothesis is that every single soul espousing Wokeness, Critical Theory, etc, is doing so disingenuously & without exception. That is why it can’t be defeated by reason: Wokeness is reveling in the idea that it makes no sense. The only ones believing it are those fighting it.
|timestamp=9:00 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=@pregocacio No. No I am not.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Breathless Financial Cheerleading Posing as Journalism:  
|content=Breathless Financial Cheerleading Posing as Journalism:  


<nowiki>#</nowiki>Bitcoin Fixes This.
#Bitcoin Fixes This. https://t.co/09lpzoLvhE
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I have no idea where BTC is heading next. But neither did the experts or journalists who implied that they did.
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=@PeterMcCormack Ha! Kidding aside Peter, you and I both accept volatility as normal. I worry about the reporting that targets levels and dates. “X could go to Y by Q3”.  


I have no idea where BTC is heading next. But neither did the experts or journalists who implied that they did.
“Why Yes….yes it could “ is always my answer.
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|content=@cloudsweeper99 Did you see the word ‘artificially’ above? I’m guessing you did.
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|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The US Academic Scam: “We need to find Americans smart enough to do Nobel level science and dumb enough not to realize that we will permanently artificially glut markets so that they will have zero leverage against whatever we, their Silent &amp; Boomer masters, want to do to them.”
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|content=The STEM shortage has been a total myth and a scam. It is an employer based gutting of America’s future to serve a dying cohort of people who bizarrely have zero interest in what they leave behind as a legacy.
|timestamp=4:13 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=Remember this odd fact: almost every graph of changes in universities over time involving tuition, faculty, time to degree, jobs, etc tells exactly the same story. Choose any university. Any measure of one generation extracting money from its descendants by destroying its future:
|timestamp=4:18 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=If I am correct there are now generations of discoveries by hundreds of STEM folks that were lost because they threatened their older masters or which bear the names of the masters with the scientist who did the original work cast out of the system. We disappeared STEM’s best.
|timestamp=4:25 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=So @elonmusk, bitcoiners, crypto folks, any interest? Every year we wait, what we built degrades further &amp; further into madness. Let’s create wealthy scientists who can tell us all to fuck off when we incentivize them to do the wrong thing in science &amp; rigorous education. #EndDEI
|timestamp=4:30 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=Now back to your regularly scheduled jokes about Contrarian University of North Texas…
Thanks for hearing me out on this periodically. I don’t know what to do to make this interesting and obvious. It’s destroying our future.
|timestamp=4:33 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|timestamp=5:19 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago I would take a look at Paul Samuelson’s Nobel lecture. He goes into depth on revealed preference and preference field non-integrability. I think we have lost track of the fact that integrability of tastes was never actually settled except by fiat. Will talk on this.
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|content=ANNOUNCEMENT: I head next week to @UChicago  for 5 days (Nov. 8-12) at the request of its storied Department of Economics to present our theory that all of economics is based on the wrong version of the differential calculus.
Importantly, this error afflicts Inflation &amp; the CPI. https://t.co/YKaPHjpdtq
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|content=Please retweet the top tweet if you're followed by economists &amp; others interested in the debate over inflation and CPI, and your followers would find a new geometric Marginal Revolution of interest. Thanks! cc: @tylercowen, @Breedlove22, @paulmromer, @PeterMcCormack, @EconTalker.
|timestamp=5:57 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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|content=I am a huge believer in the University of Chicago and its ability to stay the course while all others bend to the prevailing winds.
As such, I may (or may not) be announcing other events to discuss other work (e.g. Geometric Unity) depending on time, interest &amp; availability.🙏
|timestamp=5:57 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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|content=Cc: @balajis, @HarvardEcon, @BLS_gov, @ethereum, @VitalikButerin, @paulkrugman, @MarcusduSautoy, @BitcoinMagazine, @brian_armstrong, @CoinDesk, @coinbase, @stevesaylor, @naval, @pmarca, @saylor, @Noahpinion, @UChicagoPhysics.
My understanding is that there will be a zoom link.
|timestamp=7:31 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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|content=@curious_sausage @tylercowen @Breedlove22 @paulmromer @PeterMcCormack @EconTalker @ProfSteveKeen I never do! He’s great…and thanks for the reminder.
|timestamp=7:36 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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|content=Cc:@nntaleb, @DrBrianKeating, @edfrenkel, @ProfSteveFuller, @ProfSteveKeen, @INETeconomics, @steve_tadelis, @JonHaidt, @bariweiss, @ggreenwald, @greggutfeld, @RHDijkgraaf, @SimonsFdn, @QuantaMagazine, @inferencereview, @BretWeinstein, @PiaMalaney, @fullydavid, @SamHarrisOrg.
|timestamp=7:57 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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|content=@nuckynucker @UChicago I didn’t think it was closed. It’s an academic talk mind you, but most such talks are open.
|timestamp=8:09 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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|content=@AgramSeth @nuckynucker @UChicago I am hearing that this event is not open. I, however, *am* open to doing an open event on the same material.
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago Weird question. You seem to have me confused for the BLS. I don't take in Data. I don't have a staff or a budget. You're assuming that I have the 'Real Inflation &amp; CPI numbers'. I don't.
This is about not even having a correct *theory* to calculate. What we corrected was theory.
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago I didn’t say what you said. I said there was a wrong theory for CPI. We corrected that theory.
The issue of how to implement a theory in practice leases to different data being collected and different aggregations. For a different theory, you would collect different data.
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago As an example. The Boskin commission gave a single illustrative example in their report using two goods, chicken and beef. They gave prices but not ordinal utility. Here is the COL answer assuming Cobb-Douglas and Linear interpolation of all quantities. They could not compute it. https://t.co/zUgd1LwBgx
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago The reason they had no theory to cover it was because the C-D exponent changed. And there is a claim that no extension of the Konus COL exists for dynamic tastes.
Hope that helps with your confusion. Be well.
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago *leads not leases in the above.
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago Well I think the BLS should begin by questioning their own premises. They say they work in a COL framework. They do not. They do not share how they construct the representative consumer. How they estimate substitution if they don’t have preference data. It’s fake and a mess.
|timestamp=1:27 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago If they are going to do COLas they should estimate preferences. If they aren’t they should do mechanical index theory.
But I would use a bunch of that money to develop a research program on preference collection/imputation for substitution bias if I was running a COL shop.
|timestamp=1:29 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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|content=@_PeterRyan @UChicago I am not sure. But the first question I have is do we believe ordinal preference maps are constructable from revealed preference.
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|timestamp=9:20 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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|content=@mattyglesias Lemme see what I can do. Preparing now.
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|content=Sorry to say that I've been informed that my upcoming Nov. 10, Money &amp; Banking Workshop at @UChi_Economics will closed to non-@UChicago folks, as will the Zoom connection. Researchers in other fields/students are allowed to attend.
This sort of breaks my no closed chambers rule. https://t.co/jS3ZvGDoYZ
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|content=I am particularly irritated by the dismissive nature of the academic economists towards my tagging members of the Bitcoin community as if they are some kind of a joke.
If you bitcoiners want to have a jam session on this material, I'm yours. Despite our frictions, we're aligned.
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|content=Because this is arguably the most famous econ seminar running, it's widely known for being absolutely *brutal* yet also fair (it was founded by M. Friedman). Thus I have decided NOT to get hung up on this issue, but will comit to give an OPEN seminar on the same subject if asked.
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|content=If you're an economist convinced that this is hilarious, propose a bet. Your arrogance is really my opportunity set after all...
As long as your seminar is fair, I'll be just fine. Academic econ. is in a *lot* more trouble than I am. So, if I could open the livestream, I would.
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|content=I also want to say this, there is a tremendous amount of nasty Glee on #EconTwitter that this is going to be a blow out. A mauling. That I have no idea what I am in for. Etc.
If you're an economist interested in expressing your bitchery as a bet, I'm not above taking your money.
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|content=The academic economists need to learn a lesson that the public is not going to stand again for revisions in CPI that disguise inflation, tax us through indexing our  brackets, or impoverish us through under compensating cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security and Medicare.
|timestamp=11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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|content=See you in Chicago. Let's take back CPI inflation which leads to mega transfers, from our unaccountable 'experts' before the money supply, modern monetary theory, and CPI hacking transfer even more of the wealth of ordinary people to those few who hold significant risk assets. 🙏
|timestamp=11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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|content=The two most dangerous printing presses in Washington DC are directed by the Federal Reserve to dilute our dollar assets, and the @BLS_gov to print CPI inflation numbers that increase taxes through underindexed brackets &amp; slash entitlements we pay into over our working lives.
|timestamp=11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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|content=@aaronmkern If someone else competant wants to organize it, I'll do it.
I don't like the image of closed door seminars on topics of public policy that lead to massive involuntary wealth transfers.
|timestamp=11:39 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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|timestamp=1:53 AM ¡ Nov 06, 2021
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|content=#bitcoin #Crypto #nft #Blockchain #Decentralization #DeFi #web3 #inflation #cpi #Trade #gaugetheory
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|content=We don’t always agree. I’ve no idea how Satoshi took aim at I) above. And I don’t yet know how to explain the importance of gauge theory to Gold (physical Gauge Theory), Prices/Quantities (abelian GT), Trade (non-abelian GT) and Utility (infinite dim GT):
https://t.co/16D1phhNTC
|timestamp=8:34 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|content=But we’ve been working together behind the scenes. I so appreciate @Breedlove22 coming to Chicago to witness what I hope will be the beginning of an attack on abuses of perhaps the second most dangerous printing press in Washington as inflation heats up.
Thanks #Bitcoiners: LFG. https://t.co/Oo16iBbVnv
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|content=Bitcoiners, open minded economists &amp; math/physics folks: we have a serious problem navigating world markets using indicators that currently rely on *preposterous* assumptions (homotheticity, law of one price, stable tastes, etc) Economics needs more eyeballs on it from outside.🙏
|timestamp=8:34 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|content=Lastly when we trade with nations that have a different currency from ours, how can we measure inflation of both separate currencies relative to two baskets (imports &amp; exports) without artificially assuming the law of one price?
We *must* innovate here:
https://t.co/2xyIv0UONT
|timestamp=8:34 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|timestamp=8:40 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|content=My friend Robert @Breedlove22 asked me to sit down with him for a series of talks to discuss #Bitcoin and the nature of money, markets and their potential for manipulation by central bankers/politicized statistical bureaus.
Our first installment is here:
https://t.co/CVLeu2KVGr https://t.co/1VAhWleO0f
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|content=@michaelmalice Shabbat Shalom Michael. Headed to dinner. It’s 7pm here. Be well.
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|content=On a group chat with top libertarians. Pro-Vaccine. Pro-contact tracing. Pro public health.
What divides us most, it seems, is just how to work with our current failed leadership, amassing power while turning reasonable people against abuse of government’s legitimate functions.
|timestamp=9:31 PM ¡ Dec 10, 2021
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|content=[Note: I try to use short generic words like “top” often when I hit the 280 character limit. It had previously been “thoughtful libertarians”. I do this to avoid 2-3 tweet threads. But when enough nitpickers complain…you get needless multiple tweet threads. Like this. #Yawn. 🤷‍♀️]
|timestamp=9:51 PM ¡ Dec 10, 2021
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|content=@michaelmalice Anarchism/communism/libertarianism/truly-benevolent-dictatorship are all preferable in theory to regular governments in practice.
Let’s agree that reality can’t compete with political fantasy. What divides &amp; animates our group is what theory can be implemented in practice.
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|content=@michaelmalice Let’s agree that on the Internet “burn it all the fuck down!” or “no state encroachment on liberty!” or “all tax is theft!” or “Bitcoin fixes that.” Etc. Are all winning arguments.
This isn’t about winning Internet shouting matches. If I wanted to do that, I know how that works.
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|content=@michaelmalice Fair enough. I’m not feeling attacked.
I fear though that folks are taking advantage of this extended moment w/ indefensible geriatric leadership to say that essentially all institutions of government are ALWAYS indefensible and that slogans and memes are an ok way to fix this.
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2017

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Tired of “Bitcoin gains in value!” headlines?

Try this: “Against a mysterious world-wide low-grade revolution in the industrialized world, the dollar & other violence backed fiat currency continued their collective plunge against math backed Bitcoin.”

4:17 AM ¡ Nov 29, 2017
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Note: I’m *not* a Bitcoin evangelist & I don’t pretend to know the future. I do know of other ways to view this event that must be explored.

4:28 AM ¡ Nov 29, 2017
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@MikeFrench13 @tommartell I have no doubt that there will be collapse(s). Perhaps many. Bitcoin may well even be destroyed. Read it again. It’s not implying what you seem to be inferring.

9:20 PM ¡ Nov 29, 2017
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@MikeFrench13 @tommartell I’m fine with that. Thanks for your candor.

11:07 PM ¡ Nov 29, 2017


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@kylerow I don't think there is any question that there will be 'implosions'. I also don't think there's much question that crypto-structures are here to stay, evolve and grow no matter what happens to Bitcoin.

4:04 AM ¡ Nov 30, 2017

2018

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The rising & falling of the BTC to USD exchange rate appears to have zero positive or negative impact on my estimation of crypto's future.

Why? Because the miracle is the *existence* of the BTCUSD rate nearly 10yrs after the fact, despite posing obvious threats to nation-states.

8:26 PM ¡ Mar 26, 2018


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1/ The Christmas Thread.

First off, Merry Xmas to all.

I’m asking for your help. I want to know whether any of you know about any quiet working groups or meetings involving but not limited to Visa/MC/PayPal/etc working on the issues of “populism”/“radicalization” as euphemisms.

2:23 AM ¡ Dec 26, 2018
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2/ This would be organized by by some group like CFR, NAS or some other blue chip institution. It would be looking to figure out how to handle the “problems” of popular nullification of institutional objectives. In short it would view Brexit, Trump and restrictionism as “hate”.

2:23 AM ¡ Dec 26, 2018
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3/ This quiet meeting would bring together the major “stakeholders”(?) which would not include the public. The twin problems the meeting would actually be trying to solve are “free speech” and “democratic choice” which the public generally doesn’t want solved at all.

2:23 AM ¡ Dec 26, 2018
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4/ The meeting would explore the question of how to use the existing anti-terror programs & platform level controls to handle garden variety dissent contributing to popular nullification as if it were “hate speech”, which it would claim was akin to, or a gateway for, terror.

2:23 AM ¡ Dec 26, 2018
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5/ I’m not asking b/c I have any information that such a meeting occurred. I, in fact, have NO such information. However, I am well aware of how coordinated action has been made to look more “emergent”, in the past & I now think we’re at a very dangerous juncture between 2018-20.

2:23 AM ¡ Dec 26, 2018
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6/ This all now looks way off to me. Patreon is just the window through which we are glimpsing it. Why? Because they‘re clumsy. I fear we‘re seeing some plan to reestablish the former power of the Gated Institutional Narrative well above Patreon’s paygrade using payment networks.

2:23 AM ¡ Dec 26, 2018
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7/ I hope this is wrong. But if it‘s correct, “improper” bitcoin transactions will start to carry serious criminal penalties. Further @jordanbpeterson will not deliver a technological fix as indicated.

Watch @datasociety, @nytimes coverage & payment channels.

Happy Holidays.

2:23 AM ¡ Dec 26, 2018

2019

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My emphasis on "Sense-making" came from him directly as did the phrase. I don't know that I can or would recommend him to most sane people. Just know that he's out there and that when everyone has gone crazy, he is one of 5 or so people I call to make sure I'm not losing my mind.

10:13 PM ¡ Feb 13, 2019
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I'd like to pay a debt or two. I have not always had the easiest relationship with @jgreenhall over the last 10 years and I don't always feel comfortable with his takes on things. But he is one of my "minds of last resort." Early on @wikileaks & @Bitcoin. Maddening on everything.

10:13 PM ¡ Feb 13, 2019
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Thought those of you who put up with me should know; I've been thinking about this for a long time and it's time to boost @jgreenhall's signal: high variance, high insight, and high agency. Just know, he's not your indoor cat.

End.

10:13 PM ¡ Feb 13, 2019
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@eigenboop @jgreenhall He can be amazing.

6:56 AM ¡ Feb 14, 2019
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@TynnLyzzi @jgreenhall More than welcome.

6:57 AM ¡ Feb 14, 2019
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@TearsOfKekistan @jgreenhall Jordan is very different to my way of thinking. More focused on emergent governance.

6:59 AM ¡ Feb 14, 2019

2020

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Why stop there? Bitcoin wants to know.

6:35 PM ¡ Dec 29, 2020

2021

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The Nakamoto Collective is almost the only forward looking thing I can think of. 11 years ago, I was unable to get our Prime Broker to take seriously that a small Hedge Fund wanted to speculate on some new concept. It was so cumbersome that I gave up and wrote an essay instead...

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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Ryan Watkins

On #Bitcoin‘s 12th birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto just became the 40th richest person in the world.

$34 billion and counting 🚀

9:48 PM ¡ Jan 2, 2021
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Bitcoin at the time felt totally sketchy as a financial instrument as it was tied to contraband. But I didn’t see it as money. If I did, I would be unimaginably wealthy if I didn’t lose it all to digital theft, accidental loss or spending it . But I am an idiot in these matters.

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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So, Satoshis if you’re out there, you haven’t needed fame or been eager to cash in. That is likely because you get where this is going. Please find me or someone who can explain how AU works as a wave in a bundle. Let’s build a new digital physics around local conservation laws.

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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And I hated the blockchain. What the Satoshi collective had done was genius. But there should be no ledger. Gold, as a wave, doesn’t tell you where it has been. So instead I dreamed of meeting the Satoshis and getting rid of that damn implementation by using digital bundles.

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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Can you imagine. Some group was creating as-if physics inside the network. Bitcoins to me were ‘waves’ propagating not in vector bundles, but on networked computers as substrate.

This was genius. I reasoned at the time that it didn’t make sense to me as a medium of exchange.

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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The reason I was interested in it was more complex. If Bitcoin was digital gold, and gold was a quantum mechanical wave, then some group had created a:

1) Novel
2) Locally enforced
3) Digital
4) Conservation law

Called the blockchain. And money was but one thing it could be.

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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Thank you. For everything. And congratulations. Not on your wealth, but for giving us all the means of escape. For creating something truly new. And for having it up for for so long and proving the naysayers wrong. I have no words.

What you created wasn’t money but hope. 🙏

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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I wrote this 11 years ago. I always thought you’d read it & come find me. You weren’t rich then. You were either a government project, a collective or a lone genius. But you inspired me like little in our time. This was my attempt to get you to reach out:

https://edge.org/response-detail/11861

6:13 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021


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No. Your job is to liberate physics.

Mine, to liberate you. Presumably some of you understand the peril we’re in. We can’t stay here.

I didn’t mention Geometric Unity to the 🌎 from the early-mid 1980s until 2013. Let’s see if the Satoshi collective can go that long. #TimeToGo

7:06 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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But Bitcoiners must stop fetishizing the BTC/USD exchange rate and wealth. Set your sights higher. Become the numeraire. Time to fund the worthy outside your communities. There aren’t many. Become our adults.

And also look for an update from me around April Fools day. Hopefully.

7:06 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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I would however come to any credible meeting about freeing Satoshi’s genius from the loss of anonymity to the ledger that is the blockchain.

Bitcoiners are the logical saviors of physics. And post-Einsteinian space travel and local digital conservation laws are out best hopes.

7:06 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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I have contributed nothing to the vision of distributed computing. I don’t talk much about the essay even.

I’m not a Bitcoiner. Keep me apart from that discussion and I will always support you all.

People confuse the new as-if physics for money. So I stayed out to do my vision.

7:06 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021
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It’s time. Put distributed computing on a bundle. Stop worshiping the initial blockchain innovation. Time to move to full digital physics with space-time replaced by the networked computers in distributed computing, and by the Observerse in actual physics. We can’t stay here. 🙏

7:06 PM ¡ Jan 03, 2021


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The main use case of Bitcoin is to hedge the competency of Dr Yellen and her colleagues. Did I somehow get that wrong?

“Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, saying they are mainly used for illegal financing.” https://t.co/5woLZ6oQei

2:30 AM ¡ Jan 21, 2021


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E.G.O.s = Embedded Growth Obligations.

The simple theory of universal institutional collapse in a society built around assumptions of growth.

Picture a skyline of Transamerica Buildings and think of all our institutions as pyramids of some kind w/ different slopes.

  1. Bitcoin
9:19 PM ¡ Mar 13, 2021
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There is one giant pyramid scheme. It just has high multiplicity and different slopes.

Medicine looks like Education looks like Law looks like Finance. Etc.

Journalism is just one example. Step back.

Stop looking at the individual trees when it’s the forest blazing red.

9:23 PM ¡ Mar 13, 2021


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He is both haughty and dismissive but also not without some nuance. Seems smart from one read...But it is going to take me off course and I can’t afford to keep arguing the points with moving goal posts. I just don’t know the community well enough. You all tell me. 🙏

5:19 AM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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I highly encourage people to read this rather aggressive piece.

Q: Is this a *highly* respected member of the Bitcoin community? Is this a person who has the universal intellectual trust of the most extreme Bitcoiners?

It would require work to respond, so it matters. Thank you.

5:19 AM ¡ Mar 14, 2021


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I really appreciate this change in heart.

So much so that I want to reciprocate: BTC is one of the most important developments of our lives. I read Allen’s piece. I’d like to engage your community as I take you all very seriously. But I don’t think I am who you see me as being.

6:08 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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I want to apologize to @EricRWeinstein for my dirty little shitpost. He responded in a typically forthright manner and that’s why generally I respect him. I wish we lived in a world where my polite suggestion would have gotten him to read Alan’s piece but alas...

10:25 AM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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The important thing is that BTC is a hedge against the manipulation of the world by central banking, economists and corrupt institutions. If you can accept that it is not my religion I can accept that it is without peer among recent inventions: markets ARE the alternative to war.

6:08 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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Markets are the alternative to tyranny and central control. And having a digital gold is essential. I am not trying to save BTC. I am not trying to introduce a new alternative coin. I am worrying about tyranny and the blockchain as ledger. I am worried about what is to come.

6:08 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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Let us imagine that Governments wake up. That they realize that the way to control what that cannot control is violence. In such a situation, I don’t want a record of all transfers. Even an anonymous record. That’s what I am on about. Perhaps that is misguided. If so: explain.

6:08 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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But telling me that Juan Maldacena is a genius for writing about gauge theory and markets and that I am a mere entertainer who needs to know is place is absurd. Funny actually.

Tell me bitcoiners: where do you think the great Juan Maldacena got this genius idea? Think about it..

6:08 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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I’ve been on your side...w gauge theory...since well before BTC. Early 1990s. The goal is to disintermediate the institutional players to liberate markets to avoid tyranny. So running me down using bullshit to score points is anti-Bitcoin in spirit. Makes us all look weak & dumb.

6:08 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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Anyway, I would love to learn from your community as well as to share what I know. And I am not looking to introduce a “shitcoin”.

But a request: let’s cut the bs displays? It’s corroding us all and we now have a common threat in central banking & rigged markets to defeat. 🙏

6:08 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021


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Yes. But it is “You pl.” My co-discoverer is @PiaMalaney who Maldacena sourced but didn’t (originally) cite.

You can read all about the discovery and burial of Gauge Theoretic economics by the Boskin Commissioners on the Harvard Economics Faculty in “The Physics of Wall Street.”

8:04 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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You can read all about this attempt to disintermediate legacy economics in the final chapter and epilogue of this best selling book from a few years ago by Jim Weatherall in the time before Satoshi:

https://t.co/oyB3snTBv0

8:11 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021
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What was funny about Allen’s medium piece was that he didn’t catch that he the bitcoiner was being the credentialist. Allen was happily quoting our own original ideas back to us..but via Juan Maldacena. A legacy of credentialism and a failure of “Proof of work”. Hilarious really.

8:11 PM ¡ Mar 14, 2021


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This is the problem with valuations universally using USD or other managed fiat currencies as Numeraire. Put simply, you have 2 effects. One is the measurement of a rigid ruler (BTC) by a rubber ruler (USD), the second is the fear of rubber rulers leading to demand for rigid one.

If the USD went hyperinflationary this would clearer: we shouldn’t be using a fiat currency as our ruler because it is subject to mismanagement by central banking. Visa and MasterCard are tied to a manipulated ruler doing two things: measuring things and driving BTC demand.

The question about Gold is a good one. But, more broadly, should we be synthesizing a numeraire from a basket of fairly Rigid rulers that doesn’t include USD? We say “stocks surged across the board today” when we really mean “Our centrally managed USD ruler plummeted today.”

We can’t use BTC for numeraire if we want to measure it: BTC/BTC will never move. But we can have a basket of precious metals, crypto & even CHF if we want to see USD & BTC moving separately. I just want to move away from having the USD as ruler as it is subject to seigniorage.

To sum up: the big story is that USD/USD is the problem. We put the dollar in our blind spot. It is moving around violently, but it makes everything else that doesn’t co-move with it look violent. The fact that so much co-moves w our crazy rubber ruler drives demand for XAU,BTC.

Moral: we should synthesize a new ruler (numeraire) XXX to measure USD/XXX & BTC/XXX separately as institutions tied most directly to USD may strongly co move in ways that disguise the dangers when a (mis)managed USD ultimately becomes the main story. Don’t let the Dollar hide.

[Note: I say Ruler because if I say ‘Gauge’ the online BTC community freaks out and thinks it’s under attack from outsider “shitcoiners”. Which it isn’t. But whatever. Toxic fun. They are convinced they don’t speak prose and that BTC & USD aren’t gauges. And hey: Number go up...]

2:59 PM ¡ Mar 16, 2021
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WOW. Bitcoin just surpassed the three highest-valued global banking giants by market cap! Will BTC eclipse gold next? https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-is-now-worth-more-than-visa-and-mastercard-combined

(Reporting via @CointelegraphMT)

7:15 AM ¡ Mar 16, 2021


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@NathanCPerry I agree. I am not lecturing bitcoiners on the issue. They get it. It’s their issue too. I’m confused. It wasn’t addressed to bitcoiners. It was to the world outside Bitcoin.

That’s why “number go up” at some level. That should have been clear no? This is absurd.

7:45 PM ¡ Mar 16, 2021


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Coming to appreciate new aspects of my son when I listen to him on other podcasts. I hear things I’ve never heard, even from him.

It’s eye opening to think about being 15 right now with COVID, WAP, Deep Fakes, Trump, BTC, Woke, Etc, being your childhood:

https://youtu.be/puyHlFdkaec

3:41 PM ¡ Mar 21, 2021


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How can a political Left be:

Pro-billionaire and anti-worker?

Pro-empathy w ‘fragility’ accusations as its response to pain that cashes out in sky high differential suicide rates.

Pro-Science by not permitting questioning of public health/climate?

Pro inclusion, anti white.

3:00 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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Things that are different: Elon, Satoshi, JRE, ML, Bio-Hacking, etc.

But dammit, we can’t just burn all the institutions now headed by an extractive leader that we can’t figure out how to fire. We’re *playing* at Revolution when we have to figure out how to oust the extractives.

3:00 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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The simple answer is we have to stop taking multiple choice solutions. This whole menu of options is wrong from stem to stern.

Every day, my main thought is “None of this. None of the above. It’s just the same recycled 15 unworkable ideas that won’t die from the same people.

3:00 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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Many of you didn’t flee to the Left because of Trump. You stayed and said what needed to be said. Trump wasn’t wrong about everything; he was right about a lot. But he was a real problem.

Well Biden/Harris aren’t wrong about everything either. And they represents a real problem.

3:00 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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Let’s be honest at least: This isn’t the Left. This is a hostile takeover of everything the principled thinking compassionate Left has ever stood for. Period.

And to my conservative friends, thanks for the invites. But I’d rather you help get our home invasion under control.

3:00 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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Anti-McCarthyist, Pro-Cancelation blacklisting.

Pro-Diversity w zero-tolerance for viewpoint diversity.

Have a Magazine called Mother Jones and spit ‘Deplorables’ on those coal/steel families for whom Mother Jones fought.

Want “No more police” protecting. our most vulnerable.

3:00 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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Rant over. The madness is just getting to me. Thx.

3:00 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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@PrometheusAM The bitcoin maximalists don’t care for me & are pretty awful to deal with. But they aren’t wrong because they are dicks. They are dicks because it is an amazing invention. Something truly new. You can’t say it’s just same old same old. It’s not my religion, but it’s *astounding*.

3:09 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021
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@PrometheusAM Respectfully. I’m not one of the BTC fanatics.

3:11 PM ¡ Mar 25, 2021



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Some decent criticism of me & my GenX perspectives from the Bitcoiners here. Happy to point to it.

Thanks @Breedlove22. We’re agreed that Bitcoin is a portal. It may even be The Portal so far. I just can’t believe even *that* isn’t enough for BTC-nation: https://t.co/ExbrrlbWla

9:59 PM ¡ Mar 30, 2021
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@JimboSamso @Breedlove22 Isn’t that what I am doing here...just as you say?

12:25 AM ¡ Mar 31, 2021
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Eric Weinstein

@raw_avocado @Breedlove22 Will check it out. And thanks.

10:41 AM ¡ Apr 01, 2021


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This is absurd. Peter Thiel does not hate Bitcoin.

True, I’ve never found a shrine to BTC in his home. He has never written a song or prayer to Bitcoin. And I have never seen him lovingly polishing a physical Bitcoin. But for gosh sakes, enough with the insane misrepresentation.

1:49 PM ¡ Apr 7, 2021
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virtually all of my heroes hate Bitcoin, I can deal with Thiel trashing it too

1:19 PM ¡ Apr 7, 2021


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If I’m so against bitcoiners, why do I find myself cheering BTC on to get back in there & finish the fight against USD?

“Get back in there!! You gonna take that? From USD?!? Get up and fight dammit. You’re better than this!” Said a little voice on 2 Negronis after a long day...

4:29 AM ¡ Apr 19, 2021


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I would like to try. That was the idea. But I don’t want to sell it. I want people to understand what it is trying to do.

Then they can decide accordingly. Let’s figure it out.

Going to try talking to Bitcoiners again to get past some of the silliness. We’ll get there I hope...

6:24 AM ¡ Apr 20, 2021
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Would love constructive BTC help.

6:24 AM ¡ Apr 20, 2021
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Eric Weinstein

The first thing though is that we aren’t trying to break light speed. That is likely a fool’s errand.

We are asking if it is possible to *evade* it by not taking space-time as fundamental but merely ‘emergent’ or ‘effective’. An important difference.

6:24 AM ¡ Apr 20, 2021


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Don’t let short term losses in Bitcoin sour you on Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing. Don’t let Bitcoin zealots chase you away either.

Figuring out how we hedge against central bankers printing and devaluing fiat currency remains our upcoming rendezvous with the market.

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11:32 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2021
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We will need to go short the talent, ethics and skill of macro economists, central bankers, investment bankers and financiers.

Gold isn’t perfect. Neither is BTC.

But we must beware the printing press and calls for relief, easing and stimulus are cries for transfer & dilution.

11:32 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2021
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This is not investment advice. But it is a belief that central bankers through their disguised actions are a threat to all those who hold cash and its close equivalents. Look into BTC, XAU, CHF, XAG, etc etc etc and make up your own mind. There are risks to all. Good luck.

11:32 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2021
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P.S. I have no time frame to give you on central banking actions. I just see a group of people who get into trouble and reach for the same tool. Over and over. And there will always be such trouble until we confront and address the underlying crisis in growth and innovation.

11:35 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2021


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I believe we called their Prime Brokerage unit to ask whether they would handle BTCUSD out right and simple derivatives (puts & calls) on BTC as an underlying asset.

That was 11 years ago. GS was polite in the way sane people talk to crazy people with whom they must do business.

3:09 PM ¡ May 07, 2021
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Goldman Sachs executes its first bitcoin derivatives trades https://www.ft.com/content/5ec1d0aa-7992-4fb8-8011-9d7f7b44faac

10:15 AM ¡ May 07, 2021


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@0K0Y0NNS0N My business partner and I.

10:33 PM ¡ May 07, 2021
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@0K0Y0NNS0N I am not. I didn’t see the full coming future of Bitcoin either at the time. Just a glimpse.

12:35 AM ¡ May 08, 2021


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The internet (and Twitter in particular) needs better tools for combatting misrepresentation, false claims, inference, rumor, etc.

The web is the modern Olympics of misrepresentation. Someone always seems to know what you *really* mean...and they seldom really do.

1:26 AM ¡ May 08, 2021
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Have a great weekend.

1:26 AM ¡ May 08, 2021
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Eric Weinstein

To give an idea of how silly this is, I didn’t even know Peter when Bitcoin came out.

If I say something it dignifies the rumor. If I don’t say anything, rumor that I insinuated something goes into circulation...

And honestly, this misrepresentation game is just boring as hell.

1:26 AM ¡ May 08, 2021
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@AchimLittlepage Ha!

1:37 AM ¡ May 08, 2021


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I’m usually see @elonmusk as one of the few seeing our long game. This feels bizarre so I’m not getting something.

Why do #BTC only to undo it in the face of the easily foreseeable? This and focus on Rocket propulsion(?) over fundamental physics are 2 things I clearly don’t get.

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So I get taking #btc. And I get not taking #btc. But not doing it to undo it over energy(?) concerns.


With Rockets, you can maybe get Mars/Moon for planetary diversification. That’s *not* enough even *if* you get it done (a huge ‘if’).

Relativity is what must be superceded.

6:51 PM ¡ May 12, 2021
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Tesla & Bitcoin

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3:06 PM ¡ May 12, 2021


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Say what you want about my take on Bitcoin, but I don’t shift my opinion of it with its ups and downs.

I am still of the opinion that ordinary folks need instruments with which we can short economists in general and central bankers in particular with respect to fiat currency.

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3:09 PM ¡ May 16, 2021


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Watching the Bitcoin community. Trying to be helpful. https://t.co/qN195UadOt

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8:55 PM ¡ May 19, 2021


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If this is changing your opinion of Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing, take heart: it probably wasn’t an opinion on Bitcoin, crypto or distributed computing in the first place.

Bitcoin remains a miracle & arguably *the* definitive technological breakthrough of its time. https://t.co/0ZiF907gdJ

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5:28 PM ¡ May 23, 2021


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I’m just repeating what bitcoiners say. You need to clear up this confusion.

They *literally* often tell me “Bitcoin Fixes Everything.” In those three words w/ the certainty of God.

That is usually just before they tell me I don’t get it for asking how #btc solves an issue X.

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11:15 AM ¡ Jun 4, 2021
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There's some confusion going on with one of the #bitcoin memes.

I've heard Eric Weinstein and now Lex Fridman both get it wrong.

It's not "#bitcoin fixes everything."

It's "#bitcoin fixes this."

12:44 AM ¡ Jun 4, 2021


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I’m just repeating what bitcoiners say. You need to clear up this confusion.

They *literally* often tell me “Bitcoin Fixes Everything.” In those three words w/ the certainty of God.

That is usually just before they tell me I don’t get it for asking how #btc solves an issue X. https://t.co/ZlC1TkkCrH

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6:15 PM ¡ Jun 04, 2021
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@JackMahady @Breedlove22 Would love to.

6:50 PM ¡ Jun 04, 2021
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Eric Weinstein

@BriefAside You don’t know who Saylor is?

6:51 PM ¡ Jun 04, 2021
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@BriefAside It’s in the quote above.

6:51 PM ¡ Jun 04, 2021


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Can’t wait to see if #Bitcoin fixes this. Fingers crossed.

[I believe the rate has declined since 2015, but is still sky high.]

https://t.co/1JFRHStnMg https://t.co/fdtQLgEfZx

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5:30 AM ¡ Jun 09, 2021
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@ActiveFog @DontyMonis I do think Bitcoin can fix a lot. Not always sure where that line is of course until we try. So here we are: Can’t wait to see.

6:51 AM ¡ Jun 09, 2021
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@ActiveFog @DontyMonis No worries.

7:10 AM ¡ Jun 09, 2021


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@jeetsidhu_ @StopAndDecrypt @NoShitcoinsClub @Rob1Ham @jimmysong @THEAMERICANHODL @jaygould @GoingParabolic @bigmarh @WbccD I’m open to rethinking my points. I have seen that many Bitcoiners are as well.

6:51 PM ¡ Jun 10, 2021
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@Rob1Ham @jeetsidhu_ @StopAndDecrypt @NoShitcoinsClub @jimmysong @THEAMERICANHODL @jaygould @GoingParabolic @bigmarh @WbccD And we may not disagree as much as we come to understand each other better. And thanks.

6:52 PM ¡ Jun 10, 2021
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@StopAndDecrypt @NoShitcoinsClub @Rob1Ham @jimmysong @THEAMERICANHODL @jaygould @GoingParabolic @jeetsidhu_ @bigmarh @WbccD Hey: thank you.

6:52 PM ¡ Jun 10, 2021


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CPI is broken. Why?

Think of CPI as a gauge like a thermometer. You can’t have politically motivated folks making your thermometers or they can change the design to cover up climate change. Likewise you can’t have economists changing the gauge to disguise the effect of printing.

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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A crypto native CPI governed on the blockchain to create a decentralized stablecoin people can rely on to keep their standard of living the same across time. A true alternative to fiat rather than a speculative investment asset like most other coins.

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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The economists can’t yet compute a dynamic Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment or COLA or “Chained Changing Preference Ordinal Welfare Konus Index” to be perfectly pedantic. Not because it doesn’t exist. But because they don’t have the math and don’t want to lose their finger on the scale.

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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We must take CPI away from those who wish to back out a political agenda of printing money, raising our taxes by indexed tax brackets and slashing our indexed social security & Medicare.

Economics can’t construct dynamic economic gauges like CPI/GDP until it learns gauge thy.

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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But more importantly, we have a culture that economics literally trumpets (and I swear I am not making this up) “Economic Imperialism”. It is “we know math and you don’t”-culture.

No. They don’t know their own math. I will debate any high ranking economist on this point.

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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It’s time to reveal that economics, far from embracing math or having physics envy, is deliberately avoiding solutions to old problems so that it can make up new gauges for CPI/GDP at will while telling the rest of the soft sciences “We know your field better because we do math.”

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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No. Economics is an avoiding gauge theory, connections, Lie Groups, etc so it can retain its political relevance as an expert consultancy. I’m with the crypto folks on this. Our economy must be protected from Seigniorage (printing money) and CPI tampering (e.g. Boskin Commission).

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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CPI should not…MUST NOT…be adjustable to disguise inflation. It needs to be protected from the FED diluting the power of money and the BLS being free to disguise the effects by changing the method of construction.

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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End the forced wealth transfers of central bankers covering up their own failures with “Relief”, “Easing”, “Stimulous”, “Rescues”, “Toxic Asset Purchases”, and other bailouts of our incompetent financial overlords.

We must protect CPI from economists disguising wealth dilution.

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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P.S. before you remind me how arrogant this sounds, keep in mind, that I am willing to debate this publicly with any leading economist eager to defend the central bankers and triumphalist theorists openly bragging about their math. Read this, and be sick:

https://nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7300/w7300.pdf

6:52 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021
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Moral: Gauge Theory fixes this intellectual corruption problem of economic imperialism, and #btc, blockchains and Crytpo can help.

6:59 AM ¡ Jun 15, 2021


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They can’t take us all.

  1. WhatDoYouNeedFromMe?
9:40 PM ¡ Jun 16, 2021
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I of course warned you that this would happen (That’s why I went on Hiatus). This is how they control.

The most important thing is that you not be forced into self-censorship through monopolists’ control over your ability to feed the kids.

My channel stands open to you.

9:50 PM ¡ Jun 16, 2021
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I’ve had quite enough of our heterodox hating censorious midwit billionaire class. Who the hell are these slightly impressive people? Above average minds in search of a spine? Wow.

Full speed ahead. I don’t have anything yet, but we’ll figure it out.

Promise. Cc: @SusanWojcicki

9:50 PM ¡ Jun 16, 2021
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Eric Weinstein

Q: #BitcoinFixesThis?

9:52 PM ¡ Jun 16, 2021


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Any soul who truly “identifies as an eagle” would be instantly eliminated by testing the hypothesis. A person who believed that 2+2=5 would be unable to file taxes.

“Get woke, go broke” is nowhere near extreme enough. Truly believing in Wokeness would get you jailed…or killed.

9:00 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021
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Hyper-Unpopular View: I don’t think a single person on earth believes “Woke Ideology”.

9:00 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021
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Further, this is why “inclusion” is at its core as a strategy. Because the remedy for Wokeness wasting the energy of the developed world by boring us to death is to *exclude* it, not on the basis of it being wrong, but because the saboteur must always be excluded from civic life.

9:00 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021
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My hypothesis is that every single soul espousing Wokeness, Critical Theory, etc, is doing so disingenuously & without exception. That is why it can’t be defeated by reason: Wokeness is reveling in the idea that it makes no sense. The only ones believing it are those fighting it.

9:00 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021
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Let me give other positions so extreme that they are prima-facie disingenuous.

Crypto: Toxic Bitcoin maximalism. Hyper-Conservatives: We need a strong defense in a dangerous world but also **all** tax is theft. Etc.

All of these are parasitic on someone else being the adult.

9:24 AM ¡ Jun 21, 2021


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Breathless Financial Cheerleading Posing as Journalism:

  1. Bitcoin Fixes This. https://t.co/09lpzoLvhE
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11:55 AM ¡ Jun 23, 2021
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Eric Weinstein

I have no idea where BTC is heading next. But neither did the experts or journalists who implied that they did.

12:01 PM ¡ Jun 23, 2021
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@PeterMcCormack Ha! Kidding aside Peter, you and I both accept volatility as normal. I worry about the reporting that targets levels and dates. “X could go to Y by Q3”.

“Why Yes….yes it could “ is always my answer.

12:34 PM ¡ Jun 23, 2021
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@pregocacio No. No I am not.

12:56 PM ¡ Jun 23, 2021


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You didn’t fail to manage the interview. I’m a pain in the ass as a guest. And we are working toward something new.

Keep in mind when listening to your haters that it’s in many people’s interest to sow doubt, suspicion and envy. Many of those accounts are one person paying bots.

I just disagree with you in some places. Stop apologizing and tell your haters to suck on a lemon and wait. We’ll get to something new.

You did fine by me. Onward. Til next time.

[Honestly I feel like putting laser eyes in my profile sometimes just to quiet the worst of your haters. #Btc]

9:53 AM ¡ Jul 1, 2021
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Did you see the thread I wrote about this interview? I have thought about it a lot and how I failed to manage the interview.

4:46 AM ¡ Jul 1, 2021



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The US Academic Scam: “We need to find Americans smart enough to do Nobel level science and dumb enough not to realize that we will permanently artificially glut markets so that they will have zero leverage against whatever we, their Silent & Boomer masters, want to do to them.”

4:05 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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The STEM shortage has been a total myth and a scam. It is an employer based gutting of America’s future to serve a dying cohort of people who bizarrely have zero interest in what they leave behind as a legacy.

4:13 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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Remember this odd fact: almost every graph of changes in universities over time involving tuition, faculty, time to degree, jobs, etc tells exactly the same story. Choose any university. Any measure of one generation extracting money from its descendants by destroying its future:

4:18 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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If I am correct there are now generations of discoveries by hundreds of STEM folks that were lost because they threatened their older masters or which bear the names of the masters with the scientist who did the original work cast out of the system. We disappeared STEM’s best.

4:25 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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So @elonmusk, bitcoiners, crypto folks, any interest? Every year we wait, what we built degrades further & further into madness. Let’s create wealthy scientists who can tell us all to fuck off when we incentivize them to do the wrong thing in science & rigorous education. #EndDEI

4:30 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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Now back to your regularly scheduled jokes about Contrarian University of North Texas…

Thanks for hearing me out on this periodically. I don’t know what to do to make this interesting and obvious. It’s destroying our future.

4:33 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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@cloudsweeper99 Did you see the word ‘artificially’ above? I’m guessing you did.

5:19 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021


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ANNOUNCEMENT: I head next week to @UChicago for 5 days (Nov. 8-12) at the request of its storied Department of Economics to present our theory that all of economics is based on the wrong version of the differential calculus.

Importantly, this error afflicts Inflation & the CPI. https://t.co/YKaPHjpdtq

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5:57 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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Please retweet the top tweet if you're followed by economists & others interested in the debate over inflation and CPI, and your followers would find a new geometric Marginal Revolution of interest. Thanks! cc: @tylercowen, @Breedlove22, @paulmromer, @PeterMcCormack, @EconTalker.

5:57 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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I am a huge believer in the University of Chicago and its ability to stay the course while all others bend to the prevailing winds.

As such, I may (or may not) be announcing other events to discuss other work (e.g. Geometric Unity) depending on time, interest & availability.🙏

5:57 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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Cc: @balajis, @HarvardEcon, @BLS_gov, @ethereum, @VitalikButerin, @paulkrugman, @MarcusduSautoy, @BitcoinMagazine, @brian_armstrong, @CoinDesk, @coinbase, @stevesaylor, @naval, @pmarca, @saylor, @Noahpinion, @UChicagoPhysics.

My understanding is that there will be a zoom link.

7:31 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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@curious_sausage @tylercowen @Breedlove22 @paulmromer @PeterMcCormack @EconTalker @ProfSteveKeen I never do! He’s great…and thanks for the reminder.

7:36 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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Cc:@nntaleb, @DrBrianKeating, @edfrenkel, @ProfSteveFuller, @ProfSteveKeen, @INETeconomics, @steve_tadelis, @JonHaidt, @bariweiss, @ggreenwald, @greggutfeld, @RHDijkgraaf, @SimonsFdn, @QuantaMagazine, @inferencereview, @BretWeinstein, @PiaMalaney, @fullydavid, @SamHarrisOrg.

7:57 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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@nuckynucker @UChicago I didn’t think it was closed. It’s an academic talk mind you, but most such talks are open.

8:09 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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@AgramSeth @nuckynucker @UChicago I am hearing that this event is not open. I, however, *am* open to doing an open event on the same material.

9:05 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago Weird question. You seem to have me confused for the BLS. I don't take in Data. I don't have a staff or a budget. You're assuming that I have the 'Real Inflation & CPI numbers'. I don't.

This is about not even having a correct *theory* to calculate. What we corrected was theory.

11:40 PM ¡ Nov 04, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago I didn’t say what you said. I said there was a wrong theory for CPI. We corrected that theory.

The issue of how to implement a theory in practice leases to different data being collected and different aggregations. For a different theory, you would collect different data.

1:00 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago As an example. The Boskin commission gave a single illustrative example in their report using two goods, chicken and beef. They gave prices but not ordinal utility. Here is the COL answer assuming Cobb-Douglas and Linear interpolation of all quantities. They could not compute it. https://t.co/zUgd1LwBgx

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1:07 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago The reason they had no theory to cover it was because the C-D exponent changed. And there is a claim that no extension of the Konus COL exists for dynamic tastes.

Hope that helps with your confusion. Be well.

1:09 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago *leads not leases in the above.

1:10 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago Well I think the BLS should begin by questioning their own premises. They say they work in a COL framework. They do not. They do not share how they construct the representative consumer. How they estimate substitution if they don’t have preference data. It’s fake and a mess.

1:27 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago If they are going to do COLas they should estimate preferences. If they aren’t they should do mechanical index theory.

But I would use a bunch of that money to develop a research program on preference collection/imputation for substitution bias if I was running a COL shop.

1:29 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago I am not sure. But the first question I have is do we believe ordinal preference maps are constructable from revealed preference.

1:59 AM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@_PeterRyan @UChicago I would take a look at Paul Samuelson’s Nobel lecture. He goes into depth on revealed preference and preference field non-integrability. I think we have lost track of the fact that integrability of tastes was never actually settled except by fiat. Will talk on this.

9:20 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021


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Sorry to say that I've been informed that my upcoming Nov. 10, Money & Banking Workshop at @UChi_Economics will closed to non-@UChicago folks, as will the Zoom connection. Researchers in other fields/students are allowed to attend.

This sort of breaks my no closed chambers rule. https://t.co/jS3ZvGDoYZ

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11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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I am particularly irritated by the dismissive nature of the academic economists towards my tagging members of the Bitcoin community as if they are some kind of a joke.

If you bitcoiners want to have a jam session on this material, I'm yours. Despite our frictions, we're aligned.

11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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Because this is arguably the most famous econ seminar running, it's widely known for being absolutely *brutal* yet also fair (it was founded by M. Friedman). Thus I have decided NOT to get hung up on this issue, but will comit to give an OPEN seminar on the same subject if asked.

11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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If you're an economist convinced that this is hilarious, propose a bet. Your arrogance is really my opportunity set after all...

As long as your seminar is fair, I'll be just fine. Academic econ. is in a *lot* more trouble than I am. So, if I could open the livestream, I would.

11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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I also want to say this, there is a tremendous amount of nasty Glee on #EconTwitter that this is going to be a blow out. A mauling. That I have no idea what I am in for. Etc.

If you're an economist interested in expressing your bitchery as a bet, I'm not above taking your money.

11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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The academic economists need to learn a lesson that the public is not going to stand again for revisions in CPI that disguise inflation, tax us through indexing our brackets, or impoverish us through under compensating cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security and Medicare.

11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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See you in Chicago. Let's take back CPI inflation which leads to mega transfers, from our unaccountable 'experts' before the money supply, modern monetary theory, and CPI hacking transfer even more of the wealth of ordinary people to those few who hold significant risk assets. 🙏

11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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The two most dangerous printing presses in Washington DC are directed by the Federal Reserve to dilute our dollar assets, and the @BLS_gov to print CPI inflation numbers that increase taxes through underindexed brackets & slash entitlements we pay into over our working lives.

11:15 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@aaronmkern If someone else competant wants to organize it, I'll do it.

I don't like the image of closed door seminars on topics of public policy that lead to massive involuntary wealth transfers.

11:39 PM ¡ Nov 05, 2021
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@mattyglesias Lemme see what I can do. Preparing now.

1:53 AM ¡ Nov 06, 2021


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We don’t always agree. I’ve no idea how Satoshi took aim at I) above. And I don’t yet know how to explain the importance of gauge theory to Gold (physical Gauge Theory), Prices/Quantities (abelian GT), Trade (non-abelian GT) and Utility (infinite dim GT): https://t.co/16D1phhNTC

8:34 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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But we’ve been working together behind the scenes. I so appreciate @Breedlove22 coming to Chicago to witness what I hope will be the beginning of an attack on abuses of perhaps the second most dangerous printing press in Washington as inflation heats up.

Thanks #Bitcoiners: LFG. https://t.co/Oo16iBbVnv

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8:34 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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Bitcoiners, open minded economists & math/physics folks: we have a serious problem navigating world markets using indicators that currently rely on *preposterous* assumptions (homotheticity, law of one price, stable tastes, etc) Economics needs more eyeballs on it from outside.🙏

8:34 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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Lastly when we trade with nations that have a different currency from ours, how can we measure inflation of both separate currencies relative to two baskets (imports & exports) without artificially assuming the law of one price?

We *must* innovate here:

https://t.co/2xyIv0UONT

8:34 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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  1. bitcoin #Crypto #nft #Blockchain #Decentralization #DeFi #web3 #inflation #cpi #Trade #gaugetheory
8:40 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021


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My friend Robert @Breedlove22 asked me to sit down with him for a series of talks to discuss #Bitcoin and the nature of money, markets and their potential for manipulation by central bankers/politicized statistical bureaus.

Our first installment is here:

https://t.co/CVLeu2KVGr https://t.co/1VAhWleO0f

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5:15 AM ¡ Nov 27, 2021


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On a group chat with top libertarians. Pro-Vaccine. Pro-contact tracing. Pro public health.

What divides us most, it seems, is just how to work with our current failed leadership, amassing power while turning reasonable people against abuse of government’s legitimate functions.

9:31 PM ¡ Dec 10, 2021
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[Note: I try to use short generic words like “top” often when I hit the 280 character limit. It had previously been “thoughtful libertarians”. I do this to avoid 2-3 tweet threads. But when enough nitpickers complain…you get needless multiple tweet threads. Like this. #Yawn. 🤷‍♀️]

9:51 PM ¡ Dec 10, 2021
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@michaelmalice Anarchism/communism/libertarianism/truly-benevolent-dictatorship are all preferable in theory to regular governments in practice.

Let’s agree that reality can’t compete with political fantasy. What divides & animates our group is what theory can be implemented in practice.

1:06 AM ¡ Dec 11, 2021
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@michaelmalice Let’s agree that on the Internet “burn it all the fuck down!” or “no state encroachment on liberty!” or “all tax is theft!” or “Bitcoin fixes that.” Etc. Are all winning arguments.

This isn’t about winning Internet shouting matches. If I wanted to do that, I know how that works.

2:47 AM ¡ Dec 11, 2021
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@michaelmalice Fair enough. I’m not feeling attacked.

I fear though that folks are taking advantage of this extended moment w/ indefensible geriatric leadership to say that essentially all institutions of government are ALWAYS indefensible and that slogans and memes are an ok way to fix this.

3:00 AM ¡ Dec 11, 2021
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@michaelmalice Shabbat Shalom Michael. Headed to dinner. It’s 7pm here. Be well.

3:01 AM ¡ Dec 11, 2021

2022

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This Bitcoin depression is odd. I’ll
grant dips aren’t much of a coddle.
But if you missed your time,
Way back in ‘09,
Are you thinking of buying to Hodl?

[A question in verse. This is *Not* investment advice. Limerick & crypto may lose value. Void where prohibited. Not an NFT.]

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