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

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone, welcome to the 8th 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 reached…

• 00:29:46

  So supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed…

• 00:55:25

  Which is, it's a stand-in for human, or a stand-in for human intelligence, right? Which is going to mediate or somehow still sort of, I mean, it doesn't say directly that that's what it is, but most of the time when people provoke or, sorry, invoke algorithm, what they're really trying to point to are the smart human…

• 01:15:40

  That seems to me to get it completely wrong. And the whole point of this is... It comes out of critique. And it's all that is left after you have engaged in systematic critique of these trusted third party institutions that have up to this point asked us to trust them. And Bitcoin says, don't trust any of those guys…

• 01:34:30

  To produce those simulations then almost certainly we are inside a simulation. So everything that gets to that dilemma has come out of just mainstream unproblematic uncontroversial science. There's nothing... He's not asking you to make any assumptions. And now suddenly he asks you to make these three assumptions…

• 01:54:43

  Because if we understand thermodynamically time as tied to the flow of energy decay or disorganization, and we're talking about negantropics, are we talking perhaps about effects on time and eddies in time where potentially processes may even reverse? Or go through reverse flows of time? Because conceptually, I mean…

• 02:16:25

  I mean I think... Yeah, it's intriguing at least. I think I would be tempted to go all the way with what's been suggested in that, but at the same time I would... I would think that in doing so, one was inviting psychiatric intervention. Yeah, it kind of invites all sorts of, you know, like acid head hacker realism…

• 02:40:28

  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.