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   Community Notorious (guyjantic@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 12:10:35 JST Community Notorious

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   @cwebber @bnewbold I am absolutely not techy enough to understand most of what is going on here, but this paragraph smells fishy.

   Note that I could be very, very wrong about this...

   it feels like the message is "this is inevitable so we might as well do it." I know the person is implying "do it well" and "do it mindfully," but when these arguments are put forth in any domain I immediately wonder how inevitable the thing actually is.

   Are huge public networks inevitable? And if they are, is the sorta-implication accurate that smaller networks are unable to do the "important" things the big public ones do? Is it inevitable that large, public, (centralized?) networks will do all the tasks better than smaller, decentralized ones?

   I am probably not asking the right questions, and maybe the answer to these (and those I should be asking) is "yes." I just have a deep distrust of arguments in favor of some action when a major premise of that action is "it's inevitable, anyway." Maybe it's true sometimes? IDK, but there's a lot of very bad history with this kind of argument.