Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Take a quick look around you. What’s the the closest thing to a pure and perfect platonic abstraction you see? Eg, a cube made of a pure metal.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Stable, pure, platonic things are kinda rare in the real environment Edges and corners wear, surfaces degrade, shapes distort with heat, materials oxidize…
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