Bitcoin and Philosophy (Session 3)

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• 00:00:02

  Hello, we're live. Hello and welcome to Nick Land's Bitcoin and Philosophy Session 3 of 8. Nick, you're on and you can take over. Okay, cool. So, there's lots of treasure building up in our classroom thing, which I'm assuming people have seen. I've been trying to get a grip on what the most solid, common themes coming…

• 00:23:30

  trying to tie this back to these questions about time time loops the sophistication or crudity of models of time within the scientific tradition there is never any question that those convergent waves are embedded within more basic divergent waves no one in the Santa Fe Institute or no scientist studying these…

• 00:46:20

  isn't right, but it doesn't explore this because this is something that sort of is, by definition, right on the edge of the system. And I think it is... it's exactly a question of masks, you know, like a masked... just like a masked ball, you know, that within the system there are a set of masks and those masks, their…

• 01:11:35

  Yeah. Yeah. And it's also a kind of far-fetched idea of we really need to be, I think, the social institutions to be aboard. And it obviously is very reasonably said to be anti-democratic or anti-social. It has an extremely strong ideological affinity to it, because it's basically saying that social institutions…

• 01:31:48

  Yes, I mean I think the real transcendental structure is not just a technological structure. It's a techno-commercial structure and you can't abstract out the commercial aspect and really see what it is that's being implemented. So do you see that as playing into this whole, you know, is it the blockchain…

• 01:52:48

  Yeah. Wait. So in the first – in the angry monkey's example, are you able to stop the egg from splattering, or is that terminator only? Just so I clarify the distinction you're drawing. Mo. Like is the 12 monkeys – is that just – you can say again? No. In the 12-monkey example, you're not able to stop the egg from…

• 02:17:27

  They don't even put one dollar into campaign funding without even you know without even requiring them to make that argument explicitly just the the general comment with John Roberts wrote in what John Roberts wrote in that Supreme Court opinion you know essentially was that there is a formal identity between money…

• 02:39:43

  Okay. Thank you, everyone. Okay. I want to stop the broadcast and say goodbye. Yes. Have a great week, everybody. Bye. Bye, Laura. Thank you. Bye, everybody. Bye. Bye. Later. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.