Sovereign Individual. #Bitcoin
Lugano, Switzerland
Joined February 2020
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In the 1930s, aerodynamic models said the bee shouldn’t be able to fly.
The bee didn’t care.
It kept flying.
Sixty years later, the models changed.
Don’t care about opinions.
Keep flying.
Ours is an anxious society, and we offer people pills to suppress their anxiety, which is the feeling that compels us to act. But to act is to exercise power. Nobody wants you to have power. They want you meek like a sheep and medicated like a zombie.
Bitcoin and LLMs will compete for scarce energy, and price will decide what computation is worth, saving us from infinite AI slop.
8/9
Mining returns are not fixed either.
More mining capacity eventually raises difficulty, other things equal. Bitcoin’s price, fees and energy costs also affect profitability.
The equilibrium keeps moving. This is no guaranteed floor for AI returns or Bitcoin’s price.
1/12
You can lose power without losing a single franc.
Your balance stays the same. Your ability to buy food, shelter and time shrinks.
We call it “money” and overlook what it must do.
That is where my essay begins: with the meanings we take for granted.
11/12
My concern is what happens when we inherit meanings without examining them.
We spend, consume, obey and defend things we have barely defined.
Start with one word that guides your life.
What does it mean to you? What behaviour follows? Who benefits?
12/12
Thinking from first principles starts with examining the ingredients hidden inside familiar words.
The goal is to understand enough to act consciously.
Words: How Meaning Becomes Power
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