NCMT 500-314 -- Bitcoin and Philosophy (4 of 8)

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane open-web-talk approved for opus-only hosting; mp3 tier deferred pending a disk volume). Series: Landian Bitcoin. Source: video original (.mp4).

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone. Good morning. Welcome to the fourth session of Nick Land's Bitcoin and Philosophy Seminar. Nick, do you want to take over? Sure, sure. Hi everybody. So, week four is a kind of transition, isn't it? Because we're crossing from what is in theory a block to another block next week. And I think the loose…

• 00:25:19

  You have to be able to convert stuff into bitcoins and out of bitcoins. And that has up to this stage involved these exchanges. And because those exchanges are precisely in this problematic boundary zone, you know, they are at the edge of the system where it, it mediating between this completely anonymous…

• 00:52:25

  Buying what has tossed a buy and so forth. You know I mean with sufficiently was officially good targeting in some areas you're like oh shit. I mean that's actually kind of a distinct rambling here but it's kind of a distinct feeling when after being used to seeing a succession of ads that have. You know no interest…

• 01:16:02

  opaque. I mean, there's commercial processes that are engaged in itself. But then, like you say, there are these commercial processes that it only learns about indirectly because someone tells them that, did you know that there was a trade in all of this bundled personal, well, personal data taking place? And, yeah…

• 01:39:12

  And it really is with these things that the whole question of artificial intelligence has just crossed a line automatically and immediately from being wild scientific speculation to being just part of our social environment. Yeah. I mean, you know, as soon as you have the model of a DAO being seriously entertained…

• 02:05:11

  You got the whole back story to this. Yes, yeah, I did. I did. Right. I've been just half sleeping and half listening, because I've just had a 10 hour drive. But, anyway. Yeah, so, I suppose I was, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I was thinking about the pre-Netscape Avatar constructions…

• 02:31:29

  It can be inherent. The grammar can be terrible. Lots of spelling mistakes. All fine. But just, even if just to say, could we perhaps talk about this next week? Or, you know, this seems to me something that we could push into a bit further. You know, I mean, of course people are very welcome to say more than that. But…

• 03:01:04

  Bye-bye. Yeah, thanks. Have a good week, everybody. Bye-bye.