I thought Bitcoin, specifically, was a bubble/pyramid scheme. I still think so, as well as thinking it’s a colossal waste of energy.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t have gotten rich by buying it, or that I wouldn’t want to do so. And I’ve also adjusted my beliefs; I think I understand how it has failed to crash, and so I could imagine it continuing to have something like its current value for even 5 or 10 years more.
But it is very, very hard for me to imagine a world in which I am able to make a large pile dollars from something I so deeply distrust and dislike. And I don’t think “I coulda been rich” is an outstandingly compelling reason to radically update my values and/or epistemology.
I thought Bitcoin, specifically, was a bubble/pyramid scheme. I still think so, as well as thinking it’s a colossal waste of energy.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t have gotten rich by buying it, or that I wouldn’t want to do so. And I’ve also adjusted my beliefs; I think I understand how it has failed to crash, and so I could imagine it continuing to have something like its current value for even 5 or 10 years more.
But it is very, very hard for me to imagine a world in which I am able to make a large pile dollars from something I so deeply distrust and dislike. And I don’t think “I coulda been rich” is an outstandingly compelling reason to radically update my values and/or epistemology.