this pattern is a manifestation of the same command hierarchy bias that drives the conspiratorial impulse; people tend to privilege explanations of phenomena with a single agentic actor over epiphenomenal explanations where it emerges from the behavior of many independent actors
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RT @dystopiabreaker
a pattern i've noticed with some loud blockchain critics:
if something about the system isn't ideal or they don't like it, they of…
https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/1479740076775002112
many crypto-skeptics miss that a significant contingent of the crypto ecosystem is values-driven & as such is prone to engaging in apparently suboptimal behavior, as their optimization window is much longer term than one would expect for the profit-driven
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RT @pee_zombie
I posit that the divergence is one of values and theory of change, specifically in how one envisions the relationship between the two. does change flow from values?…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1436006844984594435
the command hierarchy bias is a useful metabolic optimization, as very many phenomena can indeed be accurately explained in this way
but it becomes incoherent when there isn't a central authority from which causation flows
decentralized systems are not explainable in this way