@naaate

Was interesting to think about how funding related to infinite games. And to look at the ethereum and bitcoin alongside infinite games like the Catholic Church, Oxford, and Linux. My biggest takeaway so far is that, different from a lot of finite games, infinite games don’t need to produce exceptional results to be “successful”. Just good enough for the game to keep going, since the whole point is to keep playing the game. Universities educate and research, priests and monks do their thing and people attend mass, ethereum gets staked and validated. You don’t need to have a priest producing the best speeches around, not all universities need to produce Nobel laureates. They just need to do good enough to keep the game going. BUT it is exactly this enduring quality that allows for certain exceptional things to happen. There is this stability that allows for really great things to bubble up every so often. Or, in the case of Linux, the enduring stability is a major part of its exceptionalism.

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