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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Does Economics Fundamentally Work?

The way space is knitted together in our theory of physics is through all these events. And the question is, can they be made consistent? Are there something forcing them to be sort of a consistent fabric of economic reality? This has led me to realize how does economics fundamentally work? And, you know, what what are the atoms of economics, so to speak? So my guess is that the yet again, I mean, it's crazy that all these things are so connected. This is another multi-computation story. Another part of the story is, can one use those ideas to make essentially a distributed generalization of blockchain?"

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