cwood

I can't tell which of these profits are in actual currency and which are in fake money.

As usual, the business fundamentals thing happens after the compensation has been paid out.

I'm getting the picture that governance is a great thing until you find out that other people want to govern you back.

The encouragement of a situation where you disconnect with those outside, the sleep deprivation, the drip of hints that you're not meeting the standard, the trust in the great leader.

It also sounds corporate, yes.

You know how sometimes you use a grocery app and it's fairly obvious that the people writing them don't spend time in grocery stores? I'm getting that same impression here.

Imagine being a skilled San Francisco-style tech worker, at the apex of your industry, and the heights of intellect and rigor you can scale outside of that very specific context turn out to be "race science" apologia. Probably a lesson in there somewhere.

To your edit, there do seem to be very many people emotionally invested in append-only ledger technology.

Weird, I thought that policies such as improving the uptake of asset-backed commercial paper(1), loosening restrictions on beneficial owner(2) anonymity in shell corporations(3), and even protecting network marketing(4) companies from innovation-unfriendly regulations would be far bigger vote getters than this.

• (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-backed_commercial_paper
• (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_ownership
• (3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_corporation
• (4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Marketing

Even just saying it was mescaline would help it make more sense.

I'm starting to think that some writing classes would really help the EA/LR crowd.

Is there some EA culture thing where every thought has to be expanded into essay form?

Now is that number total in actual money or in fake internet money?