EspHack

Mar 012 min read

Rights?

There are two main types that matter most, pinky promises and actual rights, the former are most of the stuff you find on legal texts, the later are those you can enforce on your own, the aid of technology constantly grows this list.

 

Just like with property, you have whatever "rights" you can enforce against others, of course your dad can say the red toy is only for you to use, but he can change his mind and there's not much you can do about it, as a general rule, the better well-off he is, the more likely for your complaints to be acknowledged and acted on favorably, same for a government and its courts.

 

Not to say the pinky promises are totally worthless, they just tend to be unreliable and not necessarily worthwhile to enforce, moaning i.e. peaceful protesting, will hardly ever work, and going through courts can turn counterproductive, most effective results in such scenarios come from threatening the sovereign's reputation, aka make it politically profitable for the wrong person to do the right thing, assuming said sovereign has plenty of competition to fight over you.

 

In contrast, "rights" brought on by technology that you can easily keep from others don't have this reliability issue, bitcoin gives you the right to gain, store and use your relative sovereignty and no other sovereign no matter how much more powerful than you can change that in any way, so there’s no pretending, wishful thinking or trust needed.

 

Within a bitcoin economy, whoever wants to gain with others must propose to do so voluntarily, because unlike with traditional wealth, bitcoin wealth is pure information and thus can be stored in your mind, your Net-Worth switches from what you have to what you know, this takes the floor of sovereignty to a new high, largely beyond violence's reach.

 

The coming wave of technologies like chatGPT, dall-e, etc. are informational in nature, and information is indifferent to violence, this brings higher sovereigns like today’s government down closer to everyone else’s level, the courts have as much say in future tech as the church had on sinful thoughts, Washington's capitol is about to become another Vatican City.

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