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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
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
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
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 #189 – Gabriel’s Horn: The Shape of Everything
In 1641, Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, rotated the curve y = 1/x around the horizontal axis and obtained a shape whose interior volume converges to π while its sur