Oddbean new post about login | logout "Normies" are smarter, they can learn.
I do not think there is any evidence whatsoever to back that claim up. People are stupid and lazy and do not want to learn jack shit to use social media. Period. And they’re not.
People know how to drive cars, make bank transfers, use cumbersome stuff like Paypal. People even know how to do Bitcoin transactions or buy NFTs on Solana. That's not even considering that many people do work and produce useful things for the world that you and I wouldn't know how to.
Those circles don't necessarily overlap - people who are expert in one thing are not necessarily going to be skilled at others unless there is a market reason to pull people towards change most will choose the path of least resistance
I don’t know in what universe PayPal is cumbersome to use. I’ve had 10’s of thousands of dollars run through PayPal over the course of years and years. Never had an issue with a single payment. I use lightning for the censorship characteristics NOT for ease of use because that’s a joke. I also pay less in fees (aggregate) on many transactions on PayPal as I do on BTC. Nor are any of the people doing any crypto things you just mentioned “normies.” People get so lost in the bitcoin bro culture they’ve completely lost touch. 99.9% of the world has never used *any* form on crypto, and most of them don’t care to. Normies have to have Microsoft force them to update their computers. Normies reset their passwords via “forgot my password” three or four times a year and they set the fucking thing. Normies are not going to deal with a mile long nsec, different addresses for BTC and lightning, block times, fee fluctuations, etc. Normies like stuff like the company you are working for does. Just custody their keys. Make Nostr no different than twitter. That’s what they want. They want twitter without evil space man.
Beautifully stated. Extra points awarded for "They want twitter without evil space man." 🤌💜💥😂 nostr:nevent1qqs809naq0dxnsnyxsgmv5helmnyh9dfqwxdduz37jjsh4qszy2dzugpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfdupzquhew42srcdyge8hya7cvys0vlnl0mp6snhksy7vwcrt7hsgwrlnqvzqqqqqqy37zdta
That's too long, sorry.
I’m not. That’s exactly what I expected out of you.
Fr what kind of fucking reply was that? Out of touch.
Inb4 “TL;DR”, you’re wrong and you made bad points. Your opinion is simply incorrect. “Normies” are dumb as fuck and regularly struggle to do all of the things you mentioned. It’s ridiculous to believe a habitual action like driving is on the same tier as understanding complex information. They are not even close to the same, specifically in how the brain processes them. One is a bodily action that can be practiced and transitioned into intrinsic memory (walking, breathing, etc), the other is information processing through extrinsic memory (formula, recital, etc). Not everyone has the capacity to parse complex information, but every human being has the capacity to drive.