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All posts for WORDS are found below. Browse by tag on this page or head head over to the chronological posts page. Posts are added randomly to the archives as I come across them. Tags are a constant work in progress.


Gwern

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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2011 Q2

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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Cryptography

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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Game Theory

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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Time

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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Improvements

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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Design

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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Technology

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better

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Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...

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