Outer Edges (Session 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…

• 00:29:07

  And then you've got the economic dynamics in the zone. in the zone and jurisdictional arbitrage and the fact that that experiment is reinforced and encouraged by the fact that it receives investment and that's taken as a kind of economic vote on the success of that policy. But you can't quite close the loop. This…

• 00:55:42

  Discussion. And I'm not seeing it at the moment. I mean, you know, I'd be happy to be proved wrong. But I don't think there's any innovative solution being proposed to that kind of question. And it's obviously. This collective action problem. About security. Is sort of vast. And I don't think it's unreasonable…

• 01:24:31

  for some time, a kind of a premium on your security, that too seems to be subject to the same, I guess you could say, entropic dynamic, doesn't it? That it tends to disseminate, that it tends to be copied, that after a certain time, you know, any form of military superiority is... is... is also diffused. And... I…

• 01:51:34

  This kind of boundary definition question I think is really good. And related to that boundary definition, if you were saying that there's the equivalence of the security and the, I think, profitability question, and so boundaries then are... They're the definition of stockpiled wealth as well as the use of that…

• 02:15:54

  Yes. Yeah, it's almost like a sort of vector for taking a step back from centralization of... You know, it's disintegrative, because everyone can maintain his own digital property, and it doesn't require any central authority to back it up because it's enforced by reference to the limits of computational possibility…

• 02:41:58

  Like, there's, as well as, like, gross competition for scarce and mutually exclusive uses of resources, there's this sort of, I don't know, trans-Darwinian element to it. Well, I don't, I accept the content of all you're saying. Like, there is symbiosis, and of course, the Cambrian explosion is an explosion…

• 03:27:19

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