Outer Edges (Session 8)

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• 00:00:00

  Alright, so welcome to... this is the open session here of Outer Edges with Nick Land. We're recording this for some of the students who might have... who might miss this and for the people who are just maybe on the... on the outer edges of joining the course and have any kind of questions. The official course will…

• 00:18:40

  I thought this seminar had already started once. Is it slightly delayed in starting? So it's just a kind of pragmatic. Yeah, I think that honestly you should get on to my boss topic. I'm a peon in terms of the actual structure of this thing. But is it still a two part? This is where you just was kind of part one. We…

• 00:36:20

  I would say he's definitely… The intermediate Scott Alexander because the archipelago consists of societies with very different norms and I think, I mean one of the things I would hope to do on this is maybe expand our range of imagination in terms of what these norms might be because like in Banks Scott Alexander's…

• 00:55:21

  Socially. And also about what the universe does. And maybe this particular more pessimistic point of view is taking a comparably small amount of terrestrial history as its sample. And then, I mean, there could be, this is like, this is not really a very good argument against it, but some question. Yeah, exactly. So, I…

• 01:16:02

  I mean, it's not going to resolve in some sort of large-scale conflict that will provide us with non-interference. Two things. I mean, who's saying, that's why deterrence is the basis of this. I mean, you know, I'm totally, I think anything that didn't assume that people would just want to steal stuff from other…

• 01:34:12

  This absolutely minimal condition of where any agreement, any association has to be built up. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right…

• 01:51:55

  That really puts a point That really puts a point on the point of the question. I think that's pretty much on one of your earlier themes of how a competitive society could out-compete a cooperative society. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to say more about that? Well, if some people actually do prefer vicious competition…

• 02:11:20

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