It’s a big world with big players driving their politics through their works. Three guesses why Elon “overpaid” for Twitter. He now has reach to feed his shit to the screen of 400 million people. What you support is what you enable to shape the world. The thing is, you might have aligned interests wrt privacy, but when you feed the post-factual system and its advocators, don’t be surprised when you’re the next meal. It won’t happen through SimpleX. Probably. But what could go wrong supporting wrong people.
Obviously not. But usually people who are passionate about something attend university to learn from the best in their field.
Yeah I’m sure there’s plenty of great armchair heart surgeons and structural engineers. Cryptography isn’t a field where you can fake it till you make it either.
It’s a good heuristic usually, and it’s a good heuristic here considering the SimpleX CEO’s stubborn infantile attitude towards communicating the project’s threat model that deviates from the marketing, and treating the truth as a fine print hidden deep in the documentation, and then expanding to the world of web3.
Citation needed. Every run-of-the-mill charlatan of this post-factual age peddling their pseudoscience says the same thing.
The makers and doers attitude can create new stuff but you’re not going to beat 80 years of work by the academic community on your own. We stand on the shoulders of giants. You can build your own knowledge base from scratch but it’s a long, long, climb.
Well that’s just it, it doesn’t.