Tracy Allaway

Not actually made out of graphene.

The interlocking hexagons that Tim was talking about.

No, there is something about rope where we said this in the intro, but it's old, it's lindy.

But on the other hand, it's continuously being like perfected and applied to different uses, right?

powerful conceptual unlock well also it avoids the single point of failure problem that you see in something like a chain yeah yeah but here's a question if rope is the backbone of civilization and cords are the backbone of rope then are cords the backbone of civilization like how far can you take this this is this is the thing which is and we just have to be humble it's like

The string episode coming up soon.

Yeah.

And I guess how iterative a lot of it tends to be.

But you'd have a lot of time to think about it, Joe.

I guess Robinson Crusoe has to be like your next big read or something.

Yeah.

All right.

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