A gold bar is a partially-completed future product that objectively will enhance human life.Sound banking is neither centralized nor a collectivist consensus, but rather individualist. For roughly two decades straddling the last turn of the century, the so-called “Doomsday Argument” was hotly debated in peer-reviewed journals of philosophy—until my 2009 article in Philosophy of Science, […]
Please see this link for a dialogue with ChatGPT—an astounding engineering achievement—on a logical fallacy I have named the “Morning Star Fallacy”: derived from the error of thinking that the morning star and the evening star are two distinct entities, whereas in fact they are the same entity (the planet Venus) at different stages of […]
Regarding Question 1 from my previous post on cryptocurrencies, I want to address an argument made by some proponents of cryptos. An example of this argument was made by Robert Breedlove, a popular proponent of Bitcoin, on the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast #124 (beginning at the 59:15 mark), in response to the question, “What about the […]
Until recently, I had paid little attention to cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, because they seemed to be just another form of fiat currency—backed by nothing of real value. They seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum—a spoof—of government-issued fiat currency: If a government can declare money into existence from nothing, then so can an anonymous […]