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#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Left-Right Axiom?

I was uncomfortable with the idea that some people are better than others as a starting point in the way you think about the world. If you reason in a consequentialist way, that lends itself to authoritarianism. And yes, the same applies in government and central banking. applying your idea of what is good can have large-scale detrimental effects. It's this very dangerous slippery slope of my mind.

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