Episode #193 – The Locus of Intelligence
The intelligent party in a conversation with a frontier model is not the model. Both the people building these systems and the people warning against them assume otherwise, and
Episode #192 – The Universe Demands Horns
A persistent knowledge structure can only take one shape. Information is physical, verification is asymmetric, and those two facts force a Gabriel's horn topology on anything th
Episode #191 – Why The Search Has To Be Expensive
P versus NP is the unproven conjecture that finding solutions is genuinely harder than checking them. This episode argues the same cost asymmetry runs through every act of knowl
The Shape of Hard-to-Vary
In a recent thread, David Deutsch affirmed a sharp claim: the gold standard genuinely depends on a lack of progress in physics. He is right. Every hard-money system, Bitcoin includ
Episode #190 – Time
Somewhere in the world a person has either lost their private keys or has chosen to take them to the grave, and a fixed quantity of Bitcoin will never move again. The surface an