But remember: encryption increases the cost of state coercion, and that no amount of violence can solve certain kinds of math problems
2-1a0c1f The network won’t let anyone (particularly the state) coerce
7-1b4b1 Technical truth ≠ Political truth
Societies benefit by passing down scientific and technological knowledge without distortion 2-1b2e2 Knowledge doesn’t care how it’s replicated and its impact on the knowledge bearing entities. What matters is whether the content is replicated, and there’s space for creativity and variation here.
A technical truth is true even if no human believes it to be true (Constructor Theory)
A political truth is not
6-3b2.4b Politics was (about) social media (2010s) and will be (about) cryptocurrency (2020s)