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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

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Post by ploum »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #254
jobs_throwaway wrote: post #217

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This may be the most convincing theory I've heard. I don't believe any live human being has the wherewithal to not use any of the $100B+ in the Satoshi wallets, which has led me to believe it was Hal Finney. Back and Finney both being in on it would explain some of the email timing as well

What if Satoshi is already a billionaire?

If Satoshi has at least half a brain (which we know he has), he knows that moving even one coin from this historical stack could crash the whole Bitcoin economy. So, no, he doesn’t have trillions of dollars.

(It is so basic, I’m still confused by people asking how could he not sell those coins. Because the answer is simple: to whom?)

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Post by rafram »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #735
rafram wrote: post #629

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It's most of his name. Long before his full name became common knowledge, you could already Google "Scott Alexander psychiatrist" and find him almost instantly.

That part of things is what really made this entire argument all apart of me. There are ~50k psychiatrists in the US. Roughly, 1 in 10k people in the US is named Scott. Mathematically, that means knowing "Scott is a psychiatrist" brings you down to ~5 people. Even if we assume there's some outlier clustering of people named Scott who are psychiatrists, we're still talking about some small number. Surely adding in the…

> Roughly, 1 in 10k people in the US is named Scott.

Seems to be more like one in 425 per SSA.

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Post by smallmancontrov »

margalabargala wrote: post #745
smallmancontrov wrote: post #736

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There's a term for that: systemic racism. The redefining racism thing just comes from a bunch of people who wanted to be racist without admitting racism -- often, ironically, from a position of power.

Systemic racism is something different. It's the legal system being set up in a way that favors/disfavors certain groups. It's not something a person does.

Yes, it's power + racism, which is the idea that the "power+prejudice" redefinition was getting at with the added clarification that the power has to be real rather than in the eye of the beholder. It achieves the stated purpose of the redefinition but without providing cover for people who want a reason why their racism is good while yours is bad.

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Post by [deleted] »

account42 wrote: post #717
arowthway wrote: post #433

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What's wrong with comparing the achievements of different sub-ethnicities in Israel? What's wrong with talking about any real phenomena? Is the assumption that he must have a hidden bad-faith agenda?

It's against the current ruling dogma to question that human beings are interchangeable cogs that are all ready to be placed into the machine wherever needed.

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Post by guzfip »

account42 wrote: post #717
arowthway wrote: post #433

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What's wrong with comparing the achievements of different sub-ethnicities in Israel? What's wrong with talking about any real phenomena? Is the assumption that he must have a hidden bad-faith agenda?

It's against the current ruling dogma to question that human beings are interchangeable cogs that are all ready to be placed into the machine wherever needed.

> It's against the current ruling dogma to question that human beings are interchangeable cogs that are all ready to be placed into the machine wherever needed.

It’s because the machine is their god. Service to the machine provides your value, and by extension your right to exist. If someone is no longer capable of the serving the machine, they are discard. What that looks like exactly is not pretty

Some people are inherently incapable of proving more value to the machine than they consume. What is to be done with these “extra” people?

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Post by dpark »

moomin wrote: post #719
type0 wrote: post #702

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Incredible, some people think that minorities can't be racist, by that definition Japanese weren't at all racist in 1937 Nanjing.

There’s a context to that you’re missing. The people saying that are usually using the formulation that racism = prejudice + power. So can black people in the U.K. be prejudiced? Yes, definitely. Racist? They’d need to be in a position of authority for it to matter. Other people use the formulation racism = prejudice about race, and end up talking past each other.

You are correct that there are multiple somewhat-conflicting definitions of racism but “taking past each other” isn’t really what’s happening.

The “classic” definition of racism is something like “a system of oppression based on race”. People pull that out to explain why “[minority] people can’t be racist”, but that that definition isn’t about people. It’s about systems, so if we take that definition, no individual can be racist. Most of the same people who trot out this definition will still call majority-race individuals racist (clearly using a different definition). It’s a rhetorical sleight of hand to swap definitions in a self serving way like this.

> racism = prejudice + power

This seems like an oversimplified perversion of the “systemic” definition and doesn’t make sense if you actually consider it. By this definition a poor white woman basically couldn’t be racist, while a rich black man could.

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Post by dpark »

smallmancontrov wrote: post #736
moomin wrote: post #719

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There’s a context to that you’re missing. The people saying that are usually using the formulation that racism = prejudice + power. So can black people in the U.K. be prejudiced? Yes, definitely. Racist? They’d need to be in a position of authority for it to matter. Other people use the formulation racism = prejudice about race, and end up talking past each other.

There's a term for that: systemic racism. The redefining racism thing just comes from a bunch of people who wanted to be racist without admitting racism -- often, ironically, from a position of power.

Racism has multiple conflicting definitions, and indeed “a system of oppression based on race” is a classic one.

“Systemic racism” seems to a modern answer to this vagueness. I suppose the other side would be “individual racism”.

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Post by busterarm »

Pay08 wrote: post #642
busterarm wrote: post #290

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Impeccable? Carreyrou's articles and eventual book are built largely off of the deep investigative work done by Dr. John P. A. Ioannidis and Dr. Eleftherios P. Diamandis and a listserv with thousands of participating doctors...who aren't mentioned in the book once...Similarly-omitted are Softbank/Fortress and their eventual patent-holding shell company Labrador Diagnostics LLC...

Do you have a link to that investigation?

There are publications from 2015 in multiple medical journals about it...CCLM, JAMA...

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Post by RemainsOfTheDay »

johnfn wrote: post #346
gyomu wrote: post #312

Simple question for anyone who’s familiar with this world of journalism: how does the author and the NYTimes cope with the fact that making such claims paint a huge target on the person they claim to have “unmasked”? Satoshi’s wallets are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and there have been kidnappings/torture/murders for much less than that. Do they just not care about the ethical implications? And really, for…

The NYTimes infamously doxxed Slate Star Codex[1], despite him basically begging them not to because it would upend his psychiatry practice, back in 2020 for no reason other than because they could. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416

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Post by jmye »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #575
hdgvhicv wrote: post #534

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Sure. Al Capone did a lot of charitable work too. Someone can do more than one thing.

Yes, "charitable work". I'm sure a foundation like that could make a good front for child trafficking. Not that Bill would ever do such a thing obviously, his common interests with that old rascal Jeff must have strictly included other things.

Are you asserting that the Gates Foundation was a front for sex trafficking? Or are you just saying shit because you think the memes are cute and will get you social media approval?

I assume you think you're adding some kind of value to the discussion, here. But who knows, maybe you just really fucking love malaria.

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