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Comment by haritha-j

1 day ago

Pessimistically, i imagine that's what they meant by "enormous asymmetry between the cost to create/build and the cost to destroy". Like its a lot easier to destroy an art piece in a museum than to create one.

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Chris2048  16 hours ago

That simply describes entropy. I don't know what the example of someone putting a wager on an event represents.

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