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I want to lose weight so I can wear an armor like this.
So amazing.
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Nolan in a meeting with his collaborators:
“Alright guys, focus. Historical accuracy is secondary. Narrative coherence is secondary. Even Homer is secondary.
Our real objective is clear:
we must do absolutely everything possible to annoy Metatron.
I want every historically questionable choice on the table immediately.
Wrong armor?
Excellent.
Anachronistic weapons?
Perfect.
Modern ideological filtering imposed on Bronze Age Greece?
Outstanding.
Haircuts from 2025 in the middle of the ancient Mediterranean?
Even better.
I want historians pausing the movie every three minutes in visible pain.”
As
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Austrian economists say this all the time (including Saifedean @saifedean ): “Economics is not physics because there are no units, people are not particles,” and so on.
But this misunderstands both economics and physics.
You can build an entire science based on relationships, scaling laws, and invariances without relying on simple physical units. In fact, some of the deepest ideas in physics are based on dimensionless ratios and symmetries rather than meters or kilograms.
And while people are not particles, modern physics is not just the study of particles. Physics studies complex systems made
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I proposed how to save Austrian Economics.
Get rid of Praxeology that is absurd.
Praxeology makes “purposeful action” so broad that it becomes almost empty.
If every human action is called purposeful by definition, then the theory is protected from evidence by language, not supported by evidence.
Here is the core argument.
Praxeology begins with the axiom: humans act purposefully. But much of modern psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics shows that human behavior is often automatic, habitual, unconscious, impulsive, socially primed, emotionally driven, or rationalized after the fa
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New paper coming.
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She is a beautiful woman but she is not Helen of Troy as I'm not Martin Luther King.
Pure facts.
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The Bitcoin Standard is in a sense the Bitcoin bible.
It is the book that introduced Bitcoin to million of people.
The Physics of Bitcoin brings scientific rigor to many of the arguments given by the Bitcoin Standard. It supports them via data and empirical evidence.
In the "Physics of Bitcoin" book there is an entire Appendix dedicated to the comparison of the physics approach relative to the Austrian economics approach. Here is a section of the Appendix:
6.2 Complementarity Rather Than Contradiction
The table above may suggest a simple hierarchy in which the physics framework supersedes t
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People say a lot of things about Bitcoin but without understanding the power law they miss some of the most interesting facts about it. Even professionals in the field that should know Bitcoin behavior like the palm of their hands.
For example, do you know that Bitcoin normalized returns and normalized volatility are basically constant at least for 16 years for the returns and 9 for the volatility?
What is the consequence of this? That Bitcoin is doing the same thing for the last 9 years at least.
So all your worries that is something is different with Bitcoin are not real. Bitcoin is doing
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The daily slope n=log(P2/P1)/log(t2/t1) is the natural quantity that describes almost all mathematical properties of Bitcoin.
All the discussion of projected future returns, volatility and similar become much clearer in this framework.
Take volatility.
The n volatility has had 2 main regimes in the last 17 years. It has been very stable over the last 9 years (something happened in 2017 to make it shift).
This is very interesting and consequential. This framework explains many things.
Many people say the Bitcoin volatility is declining giving hand waving arguments of why that is the case.
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When Saylor says Bitcoin is like a city, the real mathematical truth goes beyond the poetry of the analogy.
When physicists see similar deep mathematical behavior they say they belong to the same "universality class". Bitcoin and cities are bird of the same flock.
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No angel needed.
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It is more likely something comes from nothing that the other way around given nothing is unstable and it tends for sure, via symmetry breaking, to create something.
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Nothing is the most symmetric state one can imagine.
No particles.
No structures.
No preferred direction.
No preferred location.
Perfect symmetry.
And the laws of physics themselves emerge from symmetry principles through Noether’s theorem:
energy conservation from time symmetry,
momentum from spatial symmetry,
angular momentum from rotational symmetry.
But perfect symmetry is unstable.
A tiny fluctuation, a slight symmetry breaking, and structure begins to emerge.
This is the deep idea behind modern cosmology:
the universe may have arisen from an almost perfectly symmetric “nothing” state, wi
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“God may be in our future, but it was not in our past.”
What I mean is this: the universe does not appear to begin with maximal complexity, intelligence, purpose, and consciousness already fully formed.
The early universe was astonishingly simple. Almost perfectly uniform radiation, hydrogen, helium, and a handful of physical laws. Over billions of years, through gravity, evolution, self-organization, and emergence, complexity slowly arose.
Stars formed.
Then galaxies.
Then chemistry.
Then life.
Then nervous systems.
Then brains capable of reflection, art, mathematics, and science.
Mind appear
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This image shows Earth at night.
Now imagine looking at Earth from interstellar distance only a few centuries after the invention of electricity. Already, our civilization has changed the optical signature of an entire planet. Cities, roads, ports, industrial corridors, satellites, radio leakage, atmospheric chemistry, waste heat, and artificial illumination have become detectable traces of intelligence.
And we are not even a Type I civilization.
This is why the Fermi paradox is not mainly about “why don’t we hear radio signals?”
That is the weak version.
The stronger version is: why don’t we
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Do not call physicists, biologists, engineers, astronomers, atmospheric scientists, or anyone trained in actual scientific investigation to understand what these UAP might be.
No, the best approach is obviously to interpret them through a Bronze Age religious text written by people who did not know about bacteria, viruses, electricity, gravity, evolution, galaxies, plate tectonics, DNA, or modern cosmology.
Because when faced with an unknown phenomenon in the sky, why use spectroscopy, radar analysis, sensor calibration, aerospace engineering, psychology, atmospheric optics, or physics?
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Aliens travel across the universe and besides feeling the urgency to perform anal probes they like to play across wind farms.
Really, it is this the best evidence the government could provide?
Another distraction from the Epstein files.
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It is extremely likely we are alone in the Universe.
This is because nobody solved yet the strongest version of the Fermi's paradox.
The Fermi paradox doesn't say "where are the aliens?" It says: where is the thermodynamics?
The popular version of Fermi asks why we haven't heard radio signals. That's the weak version. It lets you wave it away with "maybe they don't broadcast" or "maybe they use lasers." The strong version is much harder to dismiss.
Any civilization that uses stellar-scale energy must radiate stellar-scale waste heat. This isn't a choice. It's the second law of thermodynamics
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How much do you bet all this alien revelation is mostly bs?
This is it, it is not going to be better than the usual fuzzy dots, indirect anecdotal reports and more bs like this.
Why?
Because aliens do not exist.
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