Key ideas from Timur Kuran

• Preference falsification involves both self-censorship and pretending to like something you dislike to avoid social sanctions - Kuran
• Communist regimes conducted anonymous polling for 40+ years in places like Leipzig to track true sentiment despite public lies
• Google searches can reveal hidden enthusiasm for candidates when public polling shows no support
• Religiosity is declining dramatically across the Middle East, with 20-40% of Turks no longer considering themselves Muslim - Kuran
• Bitcoin enables consensus on trillion-dollar truths regardless of nationality, creating 'cryptographic truth' that constrains state power
• Classical Islamic law prohibited corporations because states didn't want competition from organized groups that might challenge tribal replacement
• The Middle East adopted all institutions for capital accumulation but lacked civil society pressure from below unlike Europe's 1000-year development
• AI agents with crypto wallets represent the next evolution after corporate personhood, enabling bounded liability through on-chain assets