“You are a member of a class that is the apex predator for transforming disorder into order, therefore generating information. Information that has causal power is knowledge. Knowledge is what allows us to have all of the things that we have around us and to make our lives better all of the time.”
“When I say key I'm actually talking about three different things, and K equals Ic squared will score them all differently: the draw of the key, which is the active generation, committing energy to an irreversible process, a hundred dice rolls; the value, the number that actually comes out; and the custody, the whole arrangement that keeps that number alive as it moves through time and substrates.”
MicroStrategy can work as a refinery that converts fiat, information that is easy to vary, into Bitcoin, the hardest information to vary.
Information grows only where energy pays for structure that resists entropy. Like DNA and language before it, Bitcoin is a funnel that filters chaotic economic signal…
Knowledge is the universe's own learning process. Each local constraint presses order into the informational manifold like a hand pressing pizza dough, the rest of the…
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…
Bitcoin is a machine for remembering, and it works because of one deliberate hole in its memory. The Coldcard entropy failure filled that hole with facts the world had…
We are living through the biggest delusion event in the history of information, in the history of order generation.
Ep 192 · 06:17
We don't want to halt the global AI industry. We've got to refuse to treat low constraint outputs as knowledge, and we have to build the infrastructure to tell the two of them apart.
Ep 192 · 33:46
That pain is the difference between producing knowledge and producing what we might call the appearance of knowledge, which is way cheaper and almost always sufficient for getting paid.
Ep 193 · 04:00