Bitcoin and Philosophy (Session 8)

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• 00:00:01

  Hello, everyone. Welcome to the eighth and the last session of Nick Klan's Bitcoin and Philosophy Seminar. Sorry for being a little bit late. We were sort of like gathering thoughts and putting people together to start the seminar live. So I'm going to pass it on to Nick to begin. Okay. Thanks, Mo. So, okay, we've…

• 00:25:50

  So if I may jump in here on my point. Yeah, sure. So for example, in a- in, say, a medical journal. So I'm wondering- Yeah, sure. So, for example, in, say, a medical journal. Someone is studying anti-hypertensive A versus anti-hypertensive B, and they've found that A is not only non-inferior to B, it may in fact have…

• 00:45:56

  It's just the fact that the blockchain has to update itself in such a way that is consistent, that has no double spending problem. And double spending problem, as we've seen in the past, extremely wide means, basically, that there is no abuse of signs taking place in this regime. So, I think the implicit claim here…

• 01:06:38

  It's to say that to carry on, there is a... there is a continual acceptance taking place. And therefore you might want it to be formally automated in a... in a way that doesn't depend upon certain traditional institutions. That given... given that there is going to be a necessity, that there is an economic requirement…

• 01:28:33

  I'm just trying to get my head around it a little bit. Yeah. Like levels of entropy and negentropy in this. Right. Yeah. I think it is there are so many tempting avenues to explore in this way. Like the most straightforward let me put on my most sensible possible hat with just the understanding there are some slightly…

• 01:58:00

  Maybe. For the turbo back-to-scenes. Yes. Yeah, actually, I'm not... I'm... I can't pretend that I absolutely fully got this point, Mo, to be honest. You're... you're saying that people say... people say the... what... no... Can you just try to rephrase that? People identify with the simulation argument, not because…

• 02:19:16

  And you said a beyond... Or a before and a beyond time. An irreversible time. But throughout the entire eight classes, since we've been using this language, I've been trying to think, how far do you, yourself, Nick, want to go with deploying this Kantian framework? Is it sort of a model to help us think about Bitcoin…

• 02:40:29

  And thanks to everyone. So I'm going to end the seminar. And thanks for being with us for the last eight weeks. Bye-bye. Great. Bye-bye. Thank you. Thanks. Bye. Thank you. I already copied the sidebar notes. They're all in the classroom too. Great. OK, cool. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.