The Autonomous Economy

The Nunes memo is a big story right now, but I haven’t done much reading into it, and due to Bitcoin and other important priorities, I’m sorta out of the loop. News cycles and politics are like carousels in that they go in circles, the same stuff over and over, albeit with small changes along… Continue reading The Autonomous Economy

Bitcoin dead cat bounce

Last week when Bitcoin briefly eclipsed $9,000, I put out a note saying it would quickly fall below $7000, which it promptly did (going as low as $5900). Bitcoin to $50,000 this year? Unlikely. $10,000 again would be a surprise. Bitcoin will likely retest $6,000 again. The momentum is still strongly negative, and Bitcoin failed… Continue reading Bitcoin dead cat bounce

Accelerationism as an example of opensource, bottom-up philosophy

Even I’m kinda amazed at the amount of discussion ‘accelerationism’ has gotten in recent years, especially since 2016 on Reddit and various blogs [1] despite the brevity of content about it by the philosophy’s originator, Nick Land. Most philosophies are top-down: the philosopher writes a long treatise, and then readers pick it apart. But accelerationism… Continue reading Accelerationism as an example of opensource, bottom-up philosophy

Is the ‘deep state’ and Facebook trying to censor Jordan Peterson?

Is the ‘deep state’ and its partner Facebook trying to censor Jordan Peterson? Not to sound too conspiratorial, but the timing is suspicious. It all began on February 3rd when Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson got into a Twitter spat. Sam posted: I have to "dispense with consciousness"? Jordan, my ethics are entirely grounded in… Continue reading Is the ‘deep state’ and Facebook trying to censor Jordan Peterson?

Bitcoin Update 2/4/2018

Bitcoin bottomed a few days ago at 7,500, falling from as high as 11,000 a few weeks ago. It has since bounced back as high as 9,400 and is sitting at 8,900 as of publishing this. Given the weakness of the bounce and thus the failure to reclaim 10,000, but also the weakness in the… Continue reading Bitcoin Update 2/4/2018

Studies of exceedingly high IQs

Although Dr. Lewis M. Terman set an IQ cutoff of 135 for his famous ‘termite‘ study, scorers above 150 and 180 have also been studied, although not surprisingly the sample sizes are small. A follow-up of subjects scoring above 180 IQ in Terman’s genetic studies of genius, by Feldman, D. H. Leta Stetter Hollingworth’s “Children… Continue reading Studies of exceedingly high IQs

Bitcoin carnage continues

Bitcoin continues to fall, plunging below $8000 (and as of publishing this article is below $8000 on GDAX) as I predicted a month ago would happen. There is too much ‘hot money’ flowing around. Too much FUD, social media, and so on. Bitcoin needs to fall low enough to drive out the speculators, who are… Continue reading Bitcoin carnage continues