“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.”
“We have talked about it in the past, the idea of the jug in clay. What creativity is, is taking all of the information, arranging it in a new order, constraining it so that it doesn't have the option to go anywhere else. And that makes certain areas of possibilities now reachable.”
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…
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…
P versus NP is the unproven conjecture that finding solutions is genuinely harder than checking them. The same cost asymmetry runs through every act of knowledge…
Most people misjudge Bitcoin because they have never been given a working definition of wealth. David Deutsch's is the set of transformations you could perform without…
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