@cmuratori I was thinking today about how almost all new crypto efforts are like "level 2" and DAOs and stuff, and I realized this is like why software has exploded into higher levels of abstraction -- to do something at "level 1" you have to actually know what's going on

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• URL: https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1471267609937170437
• Author: Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow)
• Posted: 2021-12-15 23:55:07

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1/ @Jonathan_Blow

@cmuratori

I was thinking today about how almost all new crypto efforts are like “level 2” and DAOs and stuff, and I realized this is like why software has exploded into higher levels of abstraction — to do something at “level 1” you have to actually know what’s going on

2/ @Jonathan_Blow

@cmuratori

and be able to build a system that is at least robust enough to run by itself, whereas for anything on top of that, you just kind of make some shit up and add more code, you don’t really have to figure anything out or have new ideas.

3/ @cmuratori

@Jonathan_Blow

In general, I agree.

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