Bitcoin and Philosophy (Session 2)

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• 00:00:02

  Okay, we're live now. Hello everyone. Thanks for joining Nick Land's Bitcoin and Philosophy Session 2. I'm going to stop talking and pass it on to Nick to begin the seminar. Go ahead Nick, you're on. Okay, great. Hi everybody. I hope people have seen the various bits and pieces that have been posted in the, whatever…

• 00:23:55

  Okay. Thailand, Vietnam, and Kyrgyzstan. Right. Russia. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's what it says. I can't vouch for how up-to-date this is, but this is Wikipedia. No, it's a very interesting list of countries. I mean, if you were trying to find some common thread between them, it wouldn't be at all easy. Easy. Yes, that's…

• 00:43:59

  is claiming here to solve the fundamental problem of modernity and that he is allowing this tally logical realization that has been obstructed throughout the whole modern history and has resulted in all the political and social a infrastructure that we've seen through a resolution a resolution to this problem…

• 01:02:40

  Saying. What the hell do you mean that work is essentially defined by a kind of brute force computational activity? You know, where is that, what are you doing with that and what does that socially suggest? I actually read, like I went into a lot of blogs and I don't know if I posted them or not because of their…

• 01:19:45

  So 12% of your cost, 12% of what you produce goes towards like some form of a cost right. That's something you want to keep in mind. Well if it's your only variable cost, it's not necessarily that big an issue for a business. It's more what other variable costs they might have. I mean there's fixed plant hardware…

• 01:38:21

  Every node on the network, whatever it may be, has equal formal status, not only by some matter. I mean, it's not an extrinsic transcendent entity saying, you know, you have to treat each other fairly, but by the very nature of the system being incapable of not treating its different nodes as having equal privileges…

• 01:59:59

  Parts. So you can see that this is actually like on the surface on the most super superficial level it's xenonia you know it's you're going half the way to the war every time and. So it's a perfectly smooth exponential series but going in reverse. A lot of them. Sorry. A lot of it. Okay sorry I admit I missed what…

• 02:17:36

  OK. So thanks, everyone, very much for this. Thanks, everyone, for the great class. Thank you. See you guys next year, 10 a.m. Eastern, and see you in the classroom. OK. Have a great week, everyone. You too. Bye.