Do women have a different perspective on btc than men, in your experience?

How easy to spend btc in Argentina? I love BsAs and hate dealing w/ money exchangers to get real rates. Would rather spend btc.

Would be interested to hear about the infrastructure to deliver all that - where's the $1k / month going? What was upfront cost ( resides btc itself?)

And also (and also, harder to see) is the invisible infrastructure trail that accrues.

Have you ever spilled something sweet and then found a trail of ants snaking from your dropped jam to some distant lair outside? Something like that, I think -- the channel flows, the capital allocation, the tendrils being sent out, knitting into pores of the brick. And so, too, for the mental infrastructure slowly built out and reinforced.

Hard to assess, but real. So def worth doing and caring about. But maybe valuable in a different way than we usually think.

It's like Tether in reverse - start w giant btc hoard, acquire USD equivalents. This seems sensible as a buffer vs selling btc to pay dividends.

I wonder what this really means when all of it happens invisibly, converted magically by Cash App. Not that it's not worth doing - awareness matters - but what's the net accomplishment?

The industry of medicine, or taking medicine? Either way, a cautionary tale.

God I hope nobody gets me this for Xmas.

I appreciate you.

I love the real-time Thanksgiving reportage :)

What's the G-Spot thing you're referring to?

Sure. It's useful to consider the difference when the minority status is noticeable only after conversation and intimate contact (many religious ones; sexual ones; cultural ones) vs when it's immediately noticeable to anyone in visual range, but any difference can lead to different affordances in interaction.

I know (and I know you know) that similar arguments are often made around vitamin c - absolutely essential, but carnivores seem to either need much less, get it somehow, or both.

Makes some of these nutrition issues a bitch to figure out, given all this variance and complexity.

Maybe you should ask someone who's experienced it.

There's a reason people who aren't the majority race often have race top of mind.

Super interesting! I'm trying to square it with the behavior of deer and some other woodland creatures, for whom the salt lick is a magnet that will draw them from far and wide. Presumably a lot has to do with the relevant ecology.

There's a good SN on that book around here somewhere, I vaguely recall, that may be useful. Can't find it atm or I'd link it.

Thanks.

My understanding was that the "spectrum" is less a spectrum (e.g., EM spectrum) than a high-dimensional subspace, s.t. people can have conditions that make them quite diverse in the ways they want to take in stimuli, including interaction w/ other people.

Do you know if that's right? How does such a thing factor in?

As stated here, I think this is a general state of humankind thing (even beyond humankind actually, the problem is generally information-theoretic).

All people are interpreting all other people according to available schemas and experience and tacit assumptions and can interact based on that shared catalogue - it's just that autistic people violate the schemas most people have on hand.

Are autistic people able to communicate with each other more effectively? If so, is it bc of shared experience, or just because they make no assumption of sharing experience?

No argument, except maybe that words, in this case, are worth a lot. I feel like people blathering obvious nonsense to fit in w the zeitgeist tells me a lot abt who they are and how much attention I should loan to their opinions.

I think that's right. It's the default and sensible behavior to encode. Nobody is waiting for the day they wake up and gravity no longer pulls them downward.

The distinction seems to be that flexibility you mention: when things happen to suggest that all is not as it appears, do you try to figure out why not? Or do you tell yourself a story?

Even that's surprisingly complicated, as Kuhn demonstrated. But doable if you care to.