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Landian Philosophy of Bitcoin 001

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Lecture series (part 1 of 4) reading the Bitcoin whitepaper through Land's transcendental-critique framework.

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Series
Landian Bitcoin
Duration
01:35:33 (~96 min)
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17,369
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Topics
Nick Land · Bitcoin whitepaper · transcendental critique · objectivity
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  • 00:00:00

    So I'm hoping this has gone live. Okay, there we go. There we go. Okay, obviously this is my first time doing a live stream. So as soon as this sort of my audio is coming through to you guys, can someone just say in the chat that they can hear me well and that it's all good? It's all coming through and then…

  • 00:08:26

    I mean, to the point where we're talking about, we're talking about third parties now in terms of the economic Bitcoin sense. Uh, and actually that goes all the way through transcendentally to the idea of the death of God and how the hell we pull all that together, um, is, is, uh, super exciting, right? So it's, it's…

  • 00:15:09

    So, um, I think that's, I think that's, I think that's, I think that's a good example of how people correlate such a thing. Bitcoin over the years I think has struggled to sort of differentiate itself as whether or not it's something that should be spent as money and whether or not it's a value system. And…

  • 00:34:52

    new knowledge which is absolutely universally true so a priori being universally true but it's new how the hell does that happen um for can when we look at maths and new knowledge which is universally true which you don't have to go out into the empirical world to to investigate well that's maths right you don't have…

  • 00:48:17

    It's a transcendental. It's a transcendental mediation in the sense that the information is mediated to us and we're left with something which isn't the true reality. And it's in that trying to cohere those two realities that you are trying to develop an objective framework so that you can say from the inside, what…

  • 00:56:44

    And I hate the word the Lusical Tyrian because if you read that stuff, it's if you read the biography, realize quite three didn't have too much input. And to you to proceed. And then later on, it was basically mostly to those. Anyway, for dollars of dollars in quarter. Code, code is this is this signifies all cultural…

  • 01:13:08

    that's why it's pure in the sense it's pure in the sense of pure reason it doesn't have that connection to sensibility which can roughly be uh understood as um an extrinsic token of authority so those are the huge things that we're going to try tackling the lectures uh and i think that's actually my last slide it's…

  • 01:34:48

    have too much to say about i mean they're an they're an interesting development of cryptocurrency economics but yeah um pardon me uh yeah they might come up i think they will come up they do come up i know later on but um yeah okay uh yeah so thanks everyone it's been a fairly successful first hermitics live stream…