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Venkatesh Rao — The Art of Gig (EP.152)
Infinite Loops
The Message of the Medium of Creators Stacks Blockchains Large Language Models
Randomness randomness is woven into the fundamental nature of this technology so deeply we don't notice it just like deterministic planning was the essence of scalarism. To take blockchains randomness is fundamentally key to the entropy that's used in generating key pairs for example and just gaskets through the entire structure of blockchain technologies. You might have a very generative powerful essay about politics but nobody will want to read one written by somebody who said something about Trump right now because they're not able to see the recipe that produced that stuff. The best way to write a short story or an opinion piece about politics today is not to start with a well formed thesis and work it out logically like
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