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Originally Apr 3, 2025
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Selected piece by othersDaniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean

AI 2027

Curated reference note: selected piece by other authors. The full scenario is not copied here. This belongs in the selected shelf because it articulates the forthcoming J-curve in AI better than most writing in the...

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Originally Dec 11, 2021
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Selected piece by othersUnknown

Blockchain Jesus Whitepaper: Kissed by a Rose

Curated reference note: the full document is not copied here because it appears to be by another author. This appears to be the "Bitcoin Jesus" story candidate: a long allegorical crypto story using the title...

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Originally Sep 24, 2020
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Selected piece by otherssamczsun

Escaping the Dark Forest

Curated reference note: selected piece by another author. The full article is not copied here. This is the natural companion piece to "Ethereum is a Dark Forest." Where the first article shows a rescue attempt losing to...

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Originally Aug 28, 2020
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Selected piece by othersDan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos

Ethereum is a Dark Forest

Curated reference note: selected piece by other authors. The full article is not copied here. This is one of the cleanest crypto-era explanations of why public blockchains are adversarial systems in practice, not just...

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Originally Oct 31, 2008
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Selected piece by othersSatoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Curated reference note: selected piece by another author. A local PDF mirror is hosted here for preservation. The Bitcoin whitepaper is one of the base documents of the machine future because it states the primitive...

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