“This is the idea of if you have that vase that wasn't there before and now acts as a constraint for the possible configurations inside of it, it can do things. What is it changing? It's changing the local geometry of possibility. You couldn't carry water before, now you can.”
“You go back to the JUG analogy that I constantly reference. It's like the value that individuals are willing to share their energy with you is that you aren't constraining matter, you're taking the clay, and you are the one, you are the pawl, you are the click that doesn't go backwards. You are the irreversible constraint that says, I'm going to take this clay, I'm going to make it a JUG, I'm going to constrain it for you, I hand you the constraint.”
Constraint behaves like a physical fifth dimension. As mass and energy curve space-time into gravity, constraint curves an informational manifold into a well of…
Jacob Bekenstein's 1973 result, that a black hole's entropy is proportional to its surface area, has been treated as a paradox for fifty years. A black hole has the most…
In 1641 Evangelista Torricelli rotated the curve y = 1/x and obtained a shape with a finite interior volume and an infinite surface area. Every knowledge-generating…
A holder who loses their keys or takes them to the grave appears to give up purchasing power. In a strict physical sense they give up time, and the chronometric identity…
Being early and being wrong are the same position, and the original Bitcoin thesis, the one that expected people to figure it out quickly, was 90 percent wrong. Out of…
Bitcoin was the shape, was the jug, and then inside is what we were able to put together.
Ep 188 · 20:04
Cyberspace stays clay, stays cloud with no record. But if you put it in there, well then it becomes baked, becomes a horn.
Ep 191 · 35:24