Venkatesh Rao ☀️ (vgr)

I’m interested in a general compute version of this proposition abstracted away from details of blockchains. Perhaps: Logic > long-term memory > …DRAM > “HBM” > register memory HBM in scare quotes because I don’t mean the specific hardware standard but anything at that level in the memory hierarchy. Feels like the scalability basically tracks memory hierarchy in proportion to latency, with memoryless logic as the cheapest thing?

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Alex Honnold randomly climbing Taipei skyscraper while world is crashing and burning is a nice boss non sequitur move. Fully narrative capture resistant but can still compete for headlines with Greenland, Davos, Minneapolis, Clawd, etc. and win. Life goes on outside the narratives that try to corner attention.

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Hmm maybe the ultimate asset backing all stable economics is “consent to be governed” This naturally features an adverse asymmetry: missiles and nukes vs small arms and drones Maybe the positive asymmetric potential of cryptography simply isn’t loaded with enough value yet so the adverse gradient prevails

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I need to mute the g m casts 😑 wagmi is dumb philosophy for children Need grittier cypherpunk philosophy for this round We’re not all going to make it, that’s life. Suck it up. (3,3) is a con masquerading as a philosophy Need crypto philosophy for grownups who want life to be interesting not comfy

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