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Bitcoin, Proof of Work, and The Future of War with Adam Back & Jason Lowery (WIM175)

The "What is Money?" Show

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General Purpose Computers - What Are They?

For two thousand years, for two milinia, the act of programming was cenetic. And then suddenly there was a medocognitive split in the way that society perceives programming. People got really good at instructing a discreet state machine how to behave like things that we can per perceive in the real world. We started to talk as if software, which never stopped being a discrete state machine that tells a discreet, uh, that's a set of instructions and so on. But we were into this thing we call object, a thing we called language. When you do that abuse, it's what we call hacking. That's just the act of finding a trap door in a set

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