I am a mathematician and I produce and sell theorems. But most of the people I do business with are not interested in buying a theorem from me. So I pay them in seldincoins, which are kind of IOU. My barber, for example, has never bought a theorem from me, but is happy to take seldincoins. I assume she* either keeps the seldincoins or uses them to pay her suppliers and employees. My grocer has never bought a theorem from me, but seems happy to accept seldincoins. My appliance dealer, who sells me a fridge, a washer, a dryer, etc., has never purchased a theorem from me but is happy to accept seldincoins. My university pays me in seldincoins but buys loads of theorems all the time. Don’t you see how everyone else is ripping me off by buying few or no theorems, just accumulating seldincoins. Disgusting. I will have to raise their prices to remedy the problem. Maybe then, I can bring haircutting, grocery producing, appliance making, back home and do it myself.
*IRL my barber is a woman, along with her workers. They do only men’s hair and beards.
You’re not addressing the only important issue here.
Is what you doing having a negative effect on my stock portfolio?
No but I’m having a special today: 6 theorems for only 5 seldincoins.
I can produce my own theorems both more expensively and less effectively than you, why do I need yours?
Do you sell paradoxes too? I don’t really need any theorems right now, but I could use a few paradoxes. Maybe I could trade you a couple of axioms that you could use in your theorems.
Harry,
What measures are you taking/can you take that might raise or lower the value of seldincoins relative to other currencies?
And … in evaluating the risks associated with holding seldincoins, has your barber proposed giving your numbers a haircut?
Thanks.
Though I think it costs a fair bit of Money, I know a guy that can get you two tickets to paradox.
Are Seldincoins like the Gold Standard but for theorems?
In other words, can Seldincoins be redeemed for theorems upon request? Is there an inflationary effect here? Do I get a worse return trying to redeem for a theorem on weekends and holidays? (seems so since you have a finite ability to create theorems but there will be ever more Seldincoins…not to mention no one lives forever and then no one can redeem their Seldincoin for a theorem)
I’m sorry to tell you this, they paved paradox and put up a parking lot.
Boy, you really don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone, do you.
[Nice one]
Can I get a paradox by the dashboard light?
“Well, honey burn all the quatloos”
If this website had an upvote mechanism that post would certainly get one!
Digging deep into the lore.
A theorem is only worth what someone will pay for it now. You can hope that it is worth a lot more money while you hold it. Other people may tell you that your theorem is worth a lot of money, but it is worthess until it is actually traded.
All money and assets have only a theoretical value until traded. Yet that is the way the stock market opperates. Trading on imagined value.
How can we trust Seldincoins when they’re a misspelling? I smell a scam.
Oy, I don’t even know how to spell my own name! Can I send you a theorem to compensate?
Hari’s Incomplete Bank Account Theorem
We won’t settle for anything less than a verified proof of the psychohistory conjecture.
I had a whole heap of paradoxes yesterday, but some jerk kept taking them away one by one.
So you still have a heap, then?
Here, I’ll give you an axiom for free. It’s a good one; you can do almost anything with it:
\exists R \colon x \notin x \iff x \in R