09 / November 16

Hopeium is a hell of a drug

Topics

Cipherpunks to fintech to DeFi/CeFi/prediction markets and AI; the Caesar Cipher to Enigma, Turing’s bombes, and Colossus; MILCRYP, Lambros D. Callimahos, and the Zendian Problem; phreaks, hackers, and goldbugs; David Chaum’s Blind Signatures, DigiCash, Tim May’s Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, Hashcash, BitGold; Satoshi Nakamoto; bubbles — AI, NFTs; Polymarket, Kalshi; Golumbia’s Software as Rightwing Extremism; Dogecoin and the birth of the memecoin; quants, HFT, and dark pools; the flash crash, ultrafast black swans, and nonhuman temporalities; Mercer — NLP to RenTech to Cambridge Analytica; DeFi to CeFi to memefi — Robinhood, Wallstreetbets, Gamestop; reflexive ponzis and yield farms; crypto and Nash equilibria, zero sum minus, greater fool theory; autocatallaxy, hyperscaling, and circular AI funding; Seth Siegelaub’s Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement; On (Surplus) Value In Art — NFTs, second-order use value, surplus extraction, digital scarcity

Readings 2

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Satoshi Nakamoto from On (Surplus) Value In Art Diedrich Diederichsen

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 4

MILCRYP: from Military Cryptanalytics Pt. 3 Lambros D. Callimahos from Bitcoin, Software as Rightwing Extremism David Golumbia A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Hollywood Stock Exchange’s Forecasting Accuracy and Risk vs. Return Relationships Benjamin A. Olsho A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Continuous Speech Recognition Robert Mercer, et al.

Lab

TBD