RE: The limits of knowledge - why we don't know enough about blockchain
(c) people really don't want to know because their beliefs are going to be challenged.
An absolutely excellent example of this was my conversation with Tone Vays (bitcoin or bust person) at Consensus. It was insanely embarrassing. We spoke a bit and did a lot of listening to him rant and rave about how Dan is a scammer and how all Graphene chains, especially the newest iteration EOS, are money printing scams that Dan gets rich off of and throws to the wind because he's pure evil or something I guess?
After he was finished going on his tirade, we calmly asked him "Do you know what EOS is trying to do? How it's going to try to work? What its goals are? Do you know about the underlying tech that's going into this and how it stacks up to the competition?" His answer? "No."
We walked away.
A great example of someone choosing ignorance over information in order to protect and reaffirm their personal bias.
There's this aphorism - it's impossible to explain something to someone when his job depends on him not understanding it.
We could possibly update it for Bitcoin times. Or housing market. Or the stock market or the pension funds. Or politics, internet security, weapons sales, the list goes on... :-)
We will likely see similar people attached to EOS (or Steem), who refuse to move forward to something new in the future. I just hope I won't be one of them.
Most definitely agreed on that. You'll have people like that anywhere you go. However, due to the nature of those these chains are built, they're pretty quickly flexible. That's the beauty of the witness structure, they can come to a consensus on forks pretty quickly and without much (any, really?) pain.
That, and I feel like the team(s) behind these technologies are not the type of folks who enjoy stagnation. They're innovators. I feel like they'll always gravitate toward the best tech, that's what I do anyways. Study; make best judgement; commit.
Sounds like a typical Tone interaction.