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01 / belief
“I think nearer the beginning, I was more seeking out one or a very small number of big ideas that would explain a whole bunch of things.”
02 / belief
“” Then the people who are anti basically said, “Look, here’s the section where he outlines what the four crazy risks are.” It seems like everyone just walked away — I hope some people, and I think lots of people did get interesting information, but definitely, many walked away just certain that their existing opinion is correct, which is, unfortunately, the default response to most writing anywhere.”
03 / belief
“I think I definitely saw other spaces declining in quality, and MR didn’t, to its great credit, which I think was great.”
04 / belief
“I probably would have seen links to it from Twitter as well, though I think my Twitter usage was definitely pretty low back then.”
05 / belief
“I think, even if cryptocurrencies by themselves do nothing, if there was an established equilibrium where they roughly grow at the same or similar rate as other things, as long as they grow in a way that’s at least somewhat uncorrelated from other things, then it makes sense from a pure portfolio theory to have some of your money in them.”
06 / belief
“I think part of it is that, at least I feel like, the innovation in the crypto space isn’t just technological innovation or political innovation.”
07 / belief
“I think if there is some dimension to finance which is some kind of zero-sum conflict, then that seems very plausible.”
08 / belief
“I would say the thing that I liked about Episode VIII is that it seems to have a certain kind of realism that was lacking in some of the previous ones.”
09 / belief
“For example, I think advertising in terms of traditional advertising — definitely overrated. But advertising in terms of the broader category of trying to influence how people in the public think in order to benefit your product, I think we’re going to see lots of innovation in both good and bad over the next couple of decades.”
10 / belief
“Also, I think part of it is that, especially in lower-population-density environments, there are going to be contexts where more decentralized solutions — and in this case, I mean decentralized even as in uberPOOL — actually do end up making more sense.”
11 / belief
“There’s definitely people who work outside of the Ethereum Foundation as a formal organization that have made much bigger contributions than even some people inside of the foundation. I think that’s part of where a lot of the successful innovation has come from.”
12 / belief
“Also, on top of that, I think part of what makes cryptocurrency so attractive is that traditional financial systems have a lot of inefficiencies and annoyingness that go beyond the strictly regulatory.”