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by navaati 2027 days ago
> The only reason anything has value is if people value it...value itself is a social phenomena

That's not totally true, certain things have a more fundamental value in that if you don't get them you die, such as food and shelter. If we were ethereal economic agents living on a free and infinite compute substrate you could say that, in the meantime the Maslow hierarchy makes certains things have intrasical value that other things don't have.

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I'm not going to lie, I have no idea what 'ethereal economic agents living on a free and infinite compute substrate' means. You have bested me this time.