Oddbean new post about login | logout You make a good point but I disagree. Anonymity is not the same as pseudonymity. On #Nostr your real name doesn’t matter, because your reputation is linked to your pseudonym. Forever. So there’s your skin in the game.
Yeah, you have *some* skin in the game, especially if you build up a following. But it’s not as powerful IMO as someone who is saying, “Yeah, that’s me IRL saying and believing these things, and standing up for my right to do so, even if other people are going to be mad about it.”
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Absolutely right. But the current reality is that your opinions can have real world consequences, and most people are not in a position to risk their livelihoods on what they believe in. A separate online identity does provide that freedom. So in my opinion that’s a net win.
But think of it in game theory terms. It’s a net win to hide and post something rather than nothing for the individual, but at the cost of standing up and actually showing we are the many, and they are the few. Yes, some people might lose a job, just like some soldiers storming the beach at Normandy lost their lives. But you don’t win the war if no one is willing to fight for the cause. In this case the cause is a free and prosperous society rather than the dystopian shithole the WEF censor types are trying to bring about.
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Yes. That works in theory. But in reality we aren’t organised like soldiers following a general into battle for a common belief or flag (and the fear of punishment for desertion). Instead we are decentralised individuals. And we’re organically using the means at our disposal to fight this battle in other ways. Using the power of encryption, reach and pseudonymity as both are defensive and offensive arsenal. That’s just us evolving into the Information Age.
I don’t mean to get too caught up on the war analogy, but more the Game Theory. Sometimes people settle on a suboptimal outcome for fear of a worse one, when if they cooperated, they would get a far better one. The fact is if everyone who believed trans women playing women’s sports is a joke, said so loudly and under their real names, that shit never would have gotten started. I use this as a trivial example. But no one wanted to speak up because they could get cancelled, so we have this absurdities which we permit. We empower the tyrant by fearing him and validate the censor by not exercising our rights to free speech, consequences be damned. Encryption is for private messages. I’m talking about ideas you want to see proliferate in the public square.
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You make good points, ser. Thanks for this discussion 🫡
thanks — appreciate your engaging on this respectfully and in good faith.
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Likewise 💜
exactly