Outer Edges (4)

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• 00:00:00

  they are cultural side products of the kind of triumph of capitalism. And so implicit, he doesn't push it hard and obviously he actually asked Charles Darwin whether Darwin would sort of provide some kind of epigraph for Das Kapital which shows there's an absence of profound hostility there. But the implication…

• 00:30:38

  Aren't you, in fact, still calling upon some level of approval or at least tolerance from existing state systems to do this thing? And we can get back that. It's a complicated discussion that needs to do with deterrence and distributed security capability and a lot of the things we've touched upon. But I think that…

• 00:54:42

  by instrumental reincorporation of relative transcendence because in each case you're identifying some sort of relatively transcendent issue or model or your model that in the abstract would be would have been viewed as transcendent on land something along those lines and then you're incorporating it into an imminent…

• 01:22:55

  But there's still, there's sort of a temporal threshold or like wave, wavelength I guess is a reasonable word, where we are talking about dissemination and adoption. Like monopolistic pricing is a function of how undisseminated or unadopted that particular innovation is. So yes, it definitely makes sense that profit…

• 01:49:31

  So the selling of security is the invention and lateral distribution through these holographically similar cells of new modes of boundary definition. So then that's the Cambrian explosion, and all these... Right, yes. Completely different modes of boundaries across the... Yes. That's a very good language to introduce…

• 02:16:30

  Yeah. So there's an ultimate limit. Yeah. There's an ultimate limit that enforces it without reference to anyone else, which is very interesting. Cypherpunk rather than cyberpunk. Yeah. But there we are. Yeah. So I was in reference to space and also the sea in different mediums. I mean, yeah. I was thinking about…

• 02:42:49

  It's not, it's not, it's not something that's going to be a somehow exempted from the whole economy of of competition. There's only a certain amount of mitochondrial DNA that can be generated given a set of resource constraints and so if it wants to push those boundaries you know it will require competition with…

• 03:40:41

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