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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      10/ Go read Wikipedia page on pet rocks. Unlike more interesting stories, it won't suck you down big bunnytrail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock 

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      11/ We're left with distinguishing tulip manias and the real deal. Here the test is equally simple: learning never gets seriously difficult

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      12/ The test here is the tvtropes vs. wikipedia bunnytrail test.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      13/ It is impossible to read just 1 tvtropes page. They're like chips. You'll invariably read 5-10 min, and the reading is NEVER difficult

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      14/ Information/stories about tulip mania type things are like this: the going never gets hard, ever. You can endlessly explore fun trails

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      15/ Whereas for "real deal" topic, you will invariably run into a difficulty wall where you realize you have to do hard thinking to proceed

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      16/ This is why I think blockchain stuff is the real deal, with a there there. I run into difficult terrain in every direction when I read.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      17/ Why does depth/difficulty matter? The presence of learning depth is necessary and sufficient for self-sustained generativity

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      18/ When a subject lacks depth, creating appearance of generative variety is hard work. Tvtropes is primarily a huge pile of data/examples

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      19/ To grow the narrative tree/forest of a tulip mania, there is no option but to do grunt work to create the variety

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2017
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      20/ Real deal things though, tend to have a sort of "physics engine" at the core you can learn about if you are willing to do non-grunt work

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        2. Meekaale Brockman‏ @meekaale 30 Jul 2017
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          there should be a name for the effect when a hyped concept both wins and fades to normalcy so that early enthusiasm is uncool in hindsight

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        3. Meekaale Brockman‏ @meekaale 30 Jul 2017
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          blockchain might be like "multimedia" in 2020 when we deal with dozens of strange tokens daily

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        1. Edwin den Boer‏ @edbwt 30 Jul 2017
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          Please invest in my ICO - the whitepaper is full of difficult formulas!https://twitter.com/edbwt/status/842767796085948417 …

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          Launching CryppleNote (CRYP): an untraceable trust network. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kl9c6k9gi5yblj/crypplenote.pdf?dl=0 … (Co-founder: https://whitepaper.koinster.com/ )
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