<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for the best laugh today. Dismal science at its best.</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family:
'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ha, Eugen! Yes, this is the dismal science.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But it is a science. It's not just </span>folklore, as some might have it. It is a branch of the social sciences.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">It is a dismal social science that I am, perhaps unfortunately, studied in. I spent my education and a significant of part of my career and much of my hobby time on this dismal science of economics.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">I participate here now about Bitcoin only because I'm an old Extropian who respects the intelligence of people like you. By all other accounts, I should be talking to people in finance and investment. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Gordon</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>