By contrast small gods of discworld are scraping by on low, critical levels of belief, not mass levels of uncritical belief. They have to *work* to keep divine status via belief flows. Better off than mortals since they are immortal but they’re the working rich without FU$.
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Why? The latter is more real. Like driving to work. The former is less real, like driving around to catch green stretches on google maps.
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$ZM is still more real to me than say buying S&P puts, even though that’s an impoverishing mindset. If my Zoom bet goes to zero, I’ve learned something. My thinking about virtual future is off. I’m wrong to believe that we’re poised for secular shift to remote work.Show this thread -
What have I learned if I lose the same amount on a miscalled S&P put? Just that I was wrong about beliefs about beliefs among a bunch of MtG-playing gods. Strikes me as... not very satisfying or meaningful. It’s also the reason I haven’t stocked up a million rolls of toilet paper
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Yep, TP hoarding beyond your immediate needs, factoring in stock outs due to average TP-insanity levels, is the same exotic-financialization trader mindset. It’s just accessible to the prepper-poors. “Woohoo, I’ll sell my surplus TP at 100 rounds of ammo per roll when SHTF.”
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Note though that vacuity of the underlying beliefs is what *creates* huge upside potential. A great stock bet might appreciate 10-100x. A great derivative bet can net you >1000x. A division by zero effect. That’s why nihilism makes for good traders. It rewards low meaning more.
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You get high returns in 1 of 2 ways: betting on less meaningful stuff, adding more leverage to bets on more meaningful stuff (trading on margin). Two vectors away from reality. This is why I like crypto btw. It’s completely open about operating with a very low reality preference.
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