Other than the fact that it’s a negative sum asset that produces nothing of value while using ~1% of the world’s energy, you’re right.
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Was I the only one smiling about that?
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STOP CRAPPING ON CRAPTO IN THE CRAPTO THREAD
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I’m not getting into this fight but your first two statements are objectively false. You know that of course.
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This is my thread title btw. Most of the divisive ones are.
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Did you mean to post this in the fast food thread?
just jokes. The energy thing does suck.
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Fast food delivers cheap calories to billions of people daily. Seems like there’s some quantifiable value there but idk.
Would the world be better off without crypto? Yeah probably.
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It’s definitely a utilitarian idea and I oppose utilitarian ethics.
It isn’t necessarily utilitarian. Many ethical systems can get you to the same conclusion. The only tenet is that all else equal it’s better to improve the lives of two people than one person.
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See you in another six months when the next crypto crash event happens then!
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In fairness, you’re the one who ascribed it to Peter Singer, who leads down some very dark alleys:
On the next season of Gold Rush: Argentina…
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Perhaps you will have this epiphany regarding political theory at some point, unlikely as it appears.
If I need to have this epiphany regarding political theory. then everyone on this forum needs to have it too.
I can accept that we’re all just semi-knowledgeable sports fans arguing about stuff that’s dependent on inside info. we don’t have access to, and otherwise way over our head. But what else are we going to talk about?
The others are unlikely to be able to claim that they read books.