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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True or false: Unrestrained rehypothetication has made Bitcoin effectively an uncapped inflationary asset.

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I see three basic narratives for Ethereum going forward 1. Shut up and transact 2. Shut up and transact with extra cypherpunk steps 3. World computer

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