[igorkraw]

Thanks for the clarifications on your first two points. On the last:

You are using very wavy forms of utility. How do you define utility? I was thinking on the utility of the individual, asking about whether something like getting lost in gambling addiction after someone caught you in their funnel is truly positive utility because you "want" it.

In the same vein as your 2nd point, I'm also gonna guess you are more of a libertarian/minarchich bent because of this because while in my experience statist tend to oversimplify and wishful-think the impact of the state and anarchists tend to oversimplify and wishful-think the willingness and ableness of a group to self-organise in an anarchist way, libertarians in the US style/minarchists tend to oversimplify the question of self determinism and have inconsistent thought on what exactly the role of the state should be (it should exist because otherwise you can't have private property, but everything else...) and don't consistently acknowledge predatory behaviour that preys on human vices exists and works (AGAIN: I don't want to police the vices, I want to curtail profits on it. Self-organised vices without additional motivators are fine with me).

I also find it interesting that you claim you think term of utility and externality on collective action problems but then don't consider price of action - we don't lose anything big with crypto right now, but we would gain at least a finlands worth of energy to blow on other things ( https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/03/climate/bitco... ).