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What would you say his core "expertise" is?
(Bc when he goes into the weeds of money and monetary history, he's soooo bad)
Huh? How's that? How on earth is he bad on monetary history?
Oh, how much time do you have?
Basically nothing he says about it is accurate or true
I'd love to hear more. I got a lot of time. ;-)
here are the two articles on him I write back in 2022...
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/everything-is-the-feds-fault-a-review-of-the-fiat-standard/
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/where-does-saifedean-think-money-comes-from/
guess that's a good start
Did you ever get to interact with Saif, directly or indirectly?
yeeessss... we met in my curious/precoiner years when I was too obsessed with the inaccurate liberties he took with monetary history to hear the overall bitcoin story. MIGHT be able to dig up a selfie haha
Well, seems like I still gave him too much credit then, even as one of his haters.
I think the exact opposite.
Not only did I get my first big push into Bitcoin from from Saifedean Ammous. But I also learned about carnivore. He mentioned it occasionally, and then had an interview with Nina Teicholtz, and that was the starting point of going down the carnivore rabbit hole.
So - definitely not within his core expertise, but I attribute my carnivore diet (and all the immense benefits I've gotten from it) to him.
Nina's book is fantastic, agreeeeed. It's impressive af, too, how she's kept that lazer-eyed(!) focus for so long
Everytime I read Ammous on topics other than his core expertise, I want to remind him of this proverb of old times: Let the cobbler stick to his last. This analysis just feels like written from emotion rather than based on fact (even if his emotion agrees with my personal feeling that the US's image came out really badly from this military intervention).