Outer Edges (Session 2)

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: Outer Edges. Source: audio original (.mp3).

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• 00:00:00

  That certainly has been my position. I'm more uncertain, to be honest, at the moment. Alright, so, yeah, we can start the session at any point in time now. I guess we're at the second session of Outer Edges. Yes. Yeah, so we're kind of halfway. Okay, well, let me, I'm going to repeat a link that is, I think it's kind…

• 00:29:56

  Right. And whether that... I don't know. Because you can either go the full hog and say, right, these nano states are going to be sovereign. Yeah. And then they can get up to what they like and come what may and we'll see what happens and perhaps there are good reasons why you wouldn't have too many North Koreas…

• 00:53:54

  And I suppose that's a bit, the Patrick Friedman's thing, it seems as if what he wants is the chance for the libertarians to do their own thing in a, you know, in somewhere else, basically, from you. He's saying to the people who, you know, are in charge now, just let us do our thing somewhere else and we'll show…

• 01:18:51

  But there is an emerging sea stead industrial structure coming into being. You know where people, actually I put up a post on this that I think I need to find. You can buy something that is basically sustainable. Yeah. Yeah. People buy things like ships, ships, ships, ships, ships, ships, ships, ships, ships, ships…

• 01:46:46

  And the language he uses is distinctively libertarian, I think, in terms of incentives. He thinks you're immediately talking about incentives. Like, it's no point, so just paraphrases argument, which you can all just look at like that. There's no point expecting, that you're going to get people to change their first…

• 02:12:56

  Well, when you're advocating that, right, you're under a certain kind of obligation to make it make sense. And I'm going to hold you that obligation. To enough people to make it realistic. I mean, this is something that, you know, we're obviously looking at this Patrick Friedman essay. I don't know if you know…

• 02:34:58

  So, this isn't something that's being forced on them. I'm not arguing against them, I'm arguing against you and I'm arguing against- Well, this is- but I'm just coming out of this tradition. I mean, we're talking about Friedman's- Friedman's- I'm sorry that I haven't read the Friedman piece. But the point is that…

• 03:01:18

  Thanks. Thanks, guys. Yeah, thank you all. That's really good. Okay, have a good week, then. See you all. Yeah, bye. Thanks, guys. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thanks.