Venkatesh Rao ☀️ (vgr)

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

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2×2 x: success, y failure, both go from fear of to no fear of FoS + FoF: Optimization FoS + NFoF: Procrastination+Perfectionism NFoS + FoF: Thoroughness NFoS + NFoF: Mediocritization

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Excited for our third annual protocol symposium in September, and the first under the aegis of the Protocol Institute. Talk and workshop abstracts due June 14th. Fully online, and this is the first time we’re doing an open call too (previous editions had all the programming out of the summer of protocols cohorts; this time anyone can apply). https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/2026-protocol-symposium-new-nature

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Starting in 3 minutes on our discord — the third session in our series on stigmergy in the formal protocol theory interest group. HT Patrick Nast for introducing this thread into our deliberations. Turning out to be a really useful lens on the evolution of not just AI, but all technology in the near future, what we’re calling New Nature. This is turning into a bit of an informal summer school on stigmergic technologies. Today we’re discussing an advanced model of stigmergic computing, pebble automata. Kinda the E. coli of markdown files. https://discord.com/events/1082444651946049567/1392887922960765060/1509964539494400000

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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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