Oddbean

I’m finally at the point in my journey where friends and family are starting to say “I’m worried about you“. Will they spend more than five minutes thinking about bitcoin, or the DEEP implications of artificial intelligence? let alone how somebody goes from voting for Barack Obama twice, voting for Hillary Clinton, voting for Joe Biden, to voting for Donald Trump in 2024? All of my current positions, I arrived at over the course of years, very often thinking in public, very often having the same people who are currently questioning my sanity, nodding along with agreement, maybe even patting me on the back or explicitly praising my analysis (when they happen to agree with it). The drama of the pearlclutching is inversely proportional to the amount of work people are willing to put into engaging with ideas directly. Anyway… Always self skeptical, letting my wife be my sanity check (she is not orange pill and has no interest in these topics ha ha ha ha ha). So yeah, it’s hard not to laugh sometimes, it’s like I can see them running a predetermined script. I’m convinced enough to dig in my heels and be stubborn. I can do no other.