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Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #176

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Robert Breedlove is a decentralized finance entrepreneur, philosopher, and podcaster. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Fundrise: https://fundrise.com/lex - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - Munk Pack: https://munkpack.com and use code LEX to get 20% off - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off EPISODE LINKS: Robert's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 Robert's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 What is Money Show: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertBreedlove22 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:37 - Sovereignty 9:42 - Territorial imperative 14:19 - Property 20:24 - Anarchism 23:03 - Inflation is theft 27:26 - Volatility is truth 32:05 - Taleb and Bitcoin 36:13 - Life is information propogating through flesh 47:12 - Intelligence 51:25 - Space and time 58:07 - Pragmatic truth 1:09:05 - Creative destruction 1:12:54 - Capitalism vs Communism 1:25:38 - Jordan Peterson on religion 1:29:54 - Inflation 1:33:45 - What is money? 1:47:21 - What is Bitcoin? 1:58:27 - Bitcoin vs other cryptocurrencies 2:06:38 - Can governments ban Bitcoin? 2:19:20 - Bitcoin toxicity is tough love 2:32:39 - Crypto scammers 2:41:50 - Eric Weinstein and Bitcoin 2:48:12 - Satoshi Nakamoto 2:52:42 - Money is energy 2:59:56 - Proof of stake vs proof of work 3:02:36 - Morality 3:17:21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union 3:20:51 - Jordan Peterson and Bitcoin 3:33:20 - Book recommendations 3:52:40 - Advice for young people 3:56:11 - Love SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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You as an individual?', 'start': 330.281, 'duration': 6.005}], 'summary': 'Discussion on achieving individual sovereignty independent of monetary and centralized power.', 'duration': 28.495, 'max_score': 307.791, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s307791.jpg'}, {'end': 451.145, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 418.332, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 421.274, 'text': 'You have the Chomsky, like languages at the core of everything.', 'start': 418.332, 'duration': 2.942}, {'end': 431.06, 'text': "But you're kind of placing money as pretty close to the core of what it means to be an intelligent reasoning human.", 'start': 422.114, 'duration': 8.946}, {'end': 435.701, 'text': 'i think money is a direct derivation of action and speech.', 'start': 432, 'duration': 3.701}, {'end': 439.222, 'text': "actually it's another expression of the logos,", 'start': 435.701, 'duration': 3.521}, {'end': 451.145, 'text': "if we even think of 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organize ourselves such that property that the contributions people are making are commensurate with the consideration they're receiving?", 'start': 727.543, 'duration': 14.303}, {'end': 747.127, 'text': "So, if you're adding value to a piece of property, you're developing a piece of land for use.", 'start': 742.206, 'duration': 4.921}, {'end': 754.892, 'text': 'In theory, to be fair, you should have the rights to that fruit if you go out and plant a garden, or whatever it may be.', 'start': 747.947, 'duration': 6.945}], 'summary': 'Discussion on fair contributions for adding value to property.', 'duration': 33.73, 'max_score': 721.162, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s721162.jpg'}, {'end': 833.578, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 800.526, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 805.928, 'text': 'I thought you were going to go, because you said primordial, I thought you were going to go back to like earlier biological systems.', 'start': 800.526, 'duration': 5.402}, {'end': 809.11, 'text': 'I guess primordial for human perhaps.', 'start': 807.009, 'duration': 2.101}, {'end': 809.79, 'text': 'For humans, yeah.', 'start': 809.13, 'duration': 0.66}, {'end': 818.114, 'text': 'Okay And then the first communist or socialist would be someone that decided the fruits of his labor belonged to him.', 'start': 810.63, 'duration': 7.484}, {'end': 823.696, 'text': 'So he would have violently encroached on that individual and taken his plot for himself for his own use.', 'start': 818.834, 'duration': 4.862}, {'end': 833.578, 'text': "And that's the spectrum across which capitalism in the pure sense and communism in the pure sense operate.", 'start': 825.194, 'duration': 8.384}], 'summary': 'Discussion on the origins of capitalism and communism, with a focus on labor rights and property ownership.', 'duration': 33.052, 'max_score': 800.526, 'thumbnail': 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perspectives and cognitive biases, highlighting the value of seeking understanding even from individuals with conflicting viewpoints.', 'The concept of sovereignty throughout history and its association with money and decentralization The discussion delves into the historical evolution of sovereignty, emphasizing its association with money and its gradual decentralization across various socio-economic models.', 'The freedom of journalists to invest in Bitcoin The speaker advocates for the freedom of journalists to invest in Bitcoin, expressing disagreement with journalistic standards that restrict such investments.']}, {'end': 567.515, 'start': 245.547, 'title': 'Money as power and sovereignty', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of sovereignty as inhering within the individual, highlighting the influence of money on the human mind and reasoning, and its role as a tradable tool derived from action and speech.', 'duration': 321.968, 'highlights': ['The concept of sovereignty as inhering within the individual, with each person having their own interiorized space of choice. The individual is argued to possess sovereignty, allowing for the interiorized space of choice, regardless of external circumstances.', 'The influence of money on the human mind and reasoning, with a feedback loop between money and mind. Money is depicted as an extension of the mind, influencing cognition and reasoning, creating a feedback relationship between money and mind.', 'Money as a tradable tool derived from action and speech, following the evolution of human dexterity and speech. Money is described as a tradable tool resulting from human evolution, co-evolving with speech and dexterity, and serving as a means to satisfy human wants over time.']}, {'end': 843.704, 'start': 568.74, 'title': 'Evolutionary roots of sovereignty and property', 'summary': 'Explores the evolutionary roots of sovereignty, territoriality, and property rights, emphasizing the relationship between speech, action, and money as well as the fundamental principles of capitalism and communism.', 'duration': 274.964, 'highlights': ['Property is the socially acknowledged relationship between a human and an asset, and it is rooted in natural law, contributing to the fundamental layer of morality in capitalism. The concept of property is more than just the asset itself; it is the socially acknowledged relationship between a human and an asset, playing a crucial role in the fundamental layer of morality in capitalism.', 'Territoriality is a deep impulse in life, driving the expansion of dominion over space and time, and it is rooted in the evolutionary need for reproductive fitness. The territorial imperative is a fundamental drive in life, compelling organisms to expand their dominion over space and time, ultimately linked to the pursuit of reproductive fitness.', 'Speech and action are considered quintessential modes of self-sovereign expression, with money being viewed as a technological layer enabling sovereignty. The connection between speech, action, and self-sovereignty is highlighted, with money being depicted as a technological layer facilitating sovereignty and self-expression.']}, {'end': 1030.464, 'start': 843.704, 'title': 'Evolution of property rights', 'summary': 'Discusses the evolution of property rights, from the initial concept of ownership to the impact of the agricultural age, and speculates on future conflicts over territorial claims in space, highlighting the shift from a loydeal title to a more structured form of ownership.', 'duration': 186.76, 'highlights': ['The shift from a loydeal title in ancient days to a more structured form of ownership in the agricultural age changed the nature of property.', 'Speculation on future conflicts over territorial claims in space, with the example of Mars and the potential for sections of space to be fought over.', 'Discussion on the initial concept of ownership when the first capitalist claimed a space and the implications of asset ownership in terms of space-time and value creation.', 'Comparison of property ownership in the ancient days of hunters and gatherers, where ownership was based on defending what one could hold, to the establishment of settled civilizations during the agricultural age.']}], 'duration': 963.919, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s66545.jpg', 'highlights': ['The historical evolution of sovereignty, emphasizing its association with money and its gradual decentralization across various socio-economic models.', 'Money is depicted as an extension of the mind, influencing cognition and reasoning, creating a feedback relationship between money and mind.', 'The concept of property is more than just the asset itself; it is the socially acknowledged relationship between a human and an asset, playing a crucial role in the fundamental layer of morality in capitalism.', 'The territorial imperative is a fundamental drive in life, compelling organisms to expand their dominion over space and time, ultimately linked to the pursuit of reproductive fitness.']}, {'end': 2018.517, 'segs': [{'end': 1208.081, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1179.488, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1186.054, 'text': "The problem has been that the protector tends to, you know, they're in a monopolistic position, we'd say.", 'start': 1179.488, 'duration': 6.566}, {'end': 1192.98, 'text': 'They tend to start abusing that position to obtain property for themselves.', 'start': 1186.094, 'duration': 6.886}, {'end': 1195.002, 'text': 'Again, trying to get that something for nothing.', 'start': 1193.08, 'duration': 1.922}, {'end': 1201.247, 'text': 'When you control, you know, you are the security guard for the economy.', 'start': 1195.863, 'duration': 5.384}, {'end': 1208.081, 'text': "first thing they tend to monopolize is money, because if you can control the money, you're effectively controlling people, their energy,", 'start': 1202.296, 'duration': 5.785}], 'summary': 'Protectors monopolize money to control people and obtain property for themselves.', 'duration': 28.593, 'max_score': 1179.488, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s1179488.jpg'}, {'end': 1382.252, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1354.184, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1361.774, 'text': "so they'll keep society on a gold standard, for instance, such that they cannot violate um the money to benefit themselves.", 'start': 1354.184, 'duration': 7.59}, {'end': 1368.722, 'text': 'But inevitably, over time, because it is a political institution,', 'start': 1362.998, 'duration': 5.724}, {'end': 1376.328, 'text': "there's an incentive there for again to get something for nothing to spend more than you're making through tax revenues.", 'start': 1368.722, 'duration': 7.606}, {'end': 1382.252, 'text': 'And with that incentive, people typically ultimately end up pursuing that inflationary path.', 'start': 1377.469, 'duration': 4.783}], 'summary': 'Political institutions can lead to inflation due to the incentive to spend more than tax revenues.', 'duration': 28.068, 'max_score': 1354.184, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s1354184.jpg'}, {'end': 1643.772, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1615.22, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1620.421, 'text': "So you delay volatility, you're just amplifying it and exacerbating it in the long run.", 'start': 1615.22, 'duration': 5.201}, {'end': 1622.582, 'text': "And that's what central bank is doing.", 'start': 1621.181, 'duration': 1.401}, {'end': 1631.026, 'text': 'The central bank mandate is low unemployment and low and expected inflation, basically.', 'start': 1622.702, 'duration': 8.324}, {'end': 1639.47, 'text': "And so they're trying to achieve economic growth in a stable way, quote unquote, stable way.", 'start': 1632.987, 'duration': 6.483}, {'end': 1640.81, 'text': 'This is their ostensible purpose.', 'start': 1639.51, 'duration': 1.3}, {'end': 1643.772, 'text': "And that's just not possible.", 'start': 1642.411, 'duration': 1.361}], 'summary': "Central banks' attempt to achieve stable economic growth is not feasible.", 'duration': 28.552, 'max_score': 1615.22, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s1615220.jpg'}, {'end': 1768.133, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1744.079, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1753.644, 'text': 'which i think is interesting that actually enables us to construct civilization in these layers of anti-entropy or order.', 'start': 1744.079, 'duration': 9.565}, {'end': 1754.344, 'text': 'you might say so.', 'start': 1753.644, 'duration': 0.7}, {'end': 1760.548, 'text': 'today we live in a bubble of of anti-entropy or order.', 'start': 1756.485, 'duration': 4.063}, {'end': 1768.133, 'text': 'you know, like the coastlines are guarded by the nation and the city has a certain uh police force that keeps it in order.', 'start': 1760.548, 'duration': 7.585}], 'summary': 'Civilization relies on layers of anti-entropy, such as coast guards and police forces.', 'duration': 24.054, 'max_score': 1744.079, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s1744079.jpg'}, {'end': 1820.506, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1793.286, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1798.55, 'text': "right?. Uncertainty, it's kind of a paradox, because we're fighting against it.", 'start': 1793.286, 'duration': 5.264}, {'end': 1808.538, 'text': "We're trying to innovate our way away from uncertainty to create more capital, which capital is very simply a way of mitigating uncertainty.", 'start': 1798.95, 'duration': 9.588}, {'end': 1816.623, 'text': 'So this is why you might have like a stash of food in case the power goes out or a generator, like it helps you overcome uncertainty over time.', 'start': 1809.577, 'duration': 7.046}, {'end': 1820.506, 'text': 'But uncertainty is also where all the sweetness of life is.', 'start': 1817.804, 'duration': 2.702}], 'summary': "Innovation creates capital to mitigate uncertainty, while uncertainty is also where life's sweetness lies.", 'duration': 27.22, 'max_score': 1793.286, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s1793286.jpg'}], 'start': 1031.326, 'title': 'Economic surplus, government emergence, and money revolution', 'summary': "Discusses the transition to economic surplus, emergence of government to protect it, the potential for abuse of power, shift from capitalism to communism, satoshi nakamoto's money revolution, drawbacks of inflation, volatility as truth, and the entrepreneurial role in societal progress.", 'chapters': [{'end': 1264.632, 'start': 1031.326, 'title': 'Economic surplus and emergence of government', 'summary': 'Discusses the transition to economic surplus through trade, the emergence of government to protect the surplus, and the potential for abuse of power and money by the government, leading to a shift from capitalism to communism. it also touches on the concept of anarchism and the challenges of maintaining a government without monopolizing power and resources.', 'duration': 233.306, 'highlights': ['Government as a protector of economic surplus Government emerges as a protector of economic surplus generated by trade, ensuring peace, preserving life, liberty, and property within the trading network.', "Abuse of power and money by government The government tends to abuse its position by monopolizing money and using tactics like inflation to gain something for nothing, impacting people's time and energy to obtain money.", 'Transition from capitalism to communism The shift from a capitalistic society to a more communistic one occurs when seeking something for nothing violates the life, liberty, and property of others.', 'Challenges of maintaining a non-monopolistic government The chapter questions the possibility of having a government without monopolizing power and resources, considering ideas of anarchism and libertarianism.']}, {'end': 1589.099, 'start': 1264.632, 'title': 'Satoshi nakamoto and the revolution of money', 'summary': "Discusses how satoshi nakamoto revolutionized the monetary system, creating a money that cannot be monopolized or weaponized, and explores the drawbacks of inflation as a form of theft integrated into the money, impacting the economy's health and stability.", 'duration': 324.467, 'highlights': ["Satoshi Nakamoto's creation of a money that cannot be monopolized, corrupted, or weaponized has revolutionized the monetary system, offering a safeguard against the weaponization of the current monetary system by those who can print money against those who cannot.", 'The central bank, despite being at the heart of modern economies, is described as an anti-capitalistic institution, with a historical temptation to monopolize money, ultimately leading to pursuing an inflationary path, which is viewed as a form of theft integrated into the money.', "Inflation is discussed as a technology backdoor, likened to a snooze button on the alarm, providing a temporarily stimulative effect but ultimately destructing feedback loops and dampening disincentives, impacting the market's ability to clear malinvestment and allocate capital efficiently."]}, {'end': 2018.517, 'start': 1589.519, 'title': 'Volatility as truth and entrepreneurial anti-entropy', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of volatility as truth, the inevitability of uncertainty, and the role of entrepreneurs in converting chaos into order, highlighting the inherent instability of economic growth and the importance of embracing volatility for societal progress.', 'duration': 428.998, 'highlights': ['Volatility is a truth that cannot be escaped, representing the uncertainty inherent in life, and is essential for matching our ideas to reality. Volatility communicates truth and uncertainty, crucial for aligning ideas with reality and cannot be avoided.', "Entrepreneurs play a vital role in converting chaos into order, confronting the entropy of nature, and contributing to societal progress through innovation. Entrepreneurs confront nature's entropy, aiming to convert chaos into order, and their success contributes to societal progress.", 'The instability of economic growth is inherent, and attempting to achieve stable growth is not feasible, as growth is an inherently unstable process. Economic growth is inherently unstable, making the pursuit of stable growth unattainable.', 'The inevitability of uncertainty is balanced by the role of capital in mitigating it, while acknowledging that uncertainty is where the sweetness of life lies. Uncertainty is balanced by capital, which mitigates it, while recognizing that the sweetness of life lies in uncertainty.', 'The embrace of volatility at the edges of societal order is crucial for societal growth, and entrepreneurs are pivotal in this process. Embracing volatility at societal edges is vital for growth, with entrepreneurs playing a key role in this process.']}], 'duration': 987.191, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s1031326.jpg', 'highlights': ["Satoshi Nakamoto's creation revolutionized the monetary system, safeguarding against its weaponization.", 'Government emerges as a protector of economic surplus, ensuring peace and preserving life, liberty, and property.', 'Inflation is likened to a technology backdoor, providing a temporarily stimulative effect but ultimately destructing feedback loops.', "Entrepreneurs confront nature's entropy, aiming to convert chaos into order, contributing to societal progress.", 'Volatility communicates truth and uncertainty, crucial for aligning ideas with reality and cannot be avoided.']}, {'end': 4113.667, 'segs': [{'end': 2134.645, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2104.637, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 2112.979, 'text': "Not that I'm aware of, but he's written some about, in his books, the problem with centralization.", 'start': 2104.637, 'duration': 8.342}, {'end': 2115.82, 'text': 'A lot of his writing addresses that.', 'start': 2113.379, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 2121.361, 'text': "He actually points to, I think Switzerland is the best government in the world because it's decentralized.", 'start': 2115.88, 'duration': 5.481}, {'end': 2126.923, 'text': "there's that i don't think he has any.", 'start': 2124.482, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 2134.645, 'text': "i'm not to speak for him, but i don't think he's, uh, voiced any specific critiques on bitcoin per se.", 'start': 2126.923, 'duration': 7.722}], 'summary': "Author praises switzerland's decentralized government, advocates against centralization.", 'duration': 30.008, 'max_score': 2104.637, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s2104637.jpg'}, {'end': 2176.48, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2151.29, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2159.053, 'text': "The boating accident in Bitcoin is this I guess it's proverbial by this point where it's the way you lose your Bitcoin.", 'start': 2151.29, 'duration': 7.763}, {'end': 2161.314, 'text': 'So if someone comes after you and says hey,', 'start': 2159.414, 'duration': 1.9}, {'end': 2167.077, 'text': "you know whether it's a government or an individual is coming after you saying give me all your Bitcoin or pay these taxes in Bitcoin, you go.", 'start': 2161.314, 'duration': 5.763}, {'end': 2168.857, 'text': 'oh, I had a boating accident and lost them all.', 'start': 2167.077, 'duration': 1.78}, {'end': 2169.618, 'text': 'Lost them all.', 'start': 2169.117, 'duration': 0.501}, {'end': 2173.059, 'text': 'So, yeah.', 'start': 2169.898, 'duration': 3.161}, {'end': 2176.48, 'text': 'But back to the fundamental nature of space time.', 'start': 2173.459, 'duration': 3.021}], 'summary': "Bitcoin holders use 'boating accident' excuse to avoid giving up their bitcoin in case of seizure or taxation.", 'duration': 25.19, 'max_score': 2151.29, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s2151290.jpg'}, {'end': 2345.701, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2314.703, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 2320.57, 'text': 'It says, quote, universal Darwinism can, without risk of refuting itself, address our key question.', 'start': 2314.703, 'duration': 5.867}, {'end': 2328.373, 'text': "Does natural selection favor true perceptions? 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It seems to come from consciousness.', 'start': 3067.935, 'duration': 3.284}, {'end': 3071.58, 'text': "You're right.", 'start': 3071.259, 'duration': 0.321}, {'end': 3076.784, 'text': "That's where suffering comes from, and you want to lessen suffering.", 'start': 3073.301, 'duration': 3.483}, {'end': 3079.667, 'text': "That's where pleasure comes from.", 'start': 3078.206, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 3081.689, 'text': "It seems like it's consciousness.", 'start': 3079.687, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 3085.152, 'text': 'Maybe there is something to this biological meat bag.', 'start': 3081.949, 'duration': 3.203}, {'end': 3090.337, 'text': 'So to take it one layer deeper on this and the reason I like this book so much again The Case Against Reality.', 'start': 3085.192, 'duration': 5.145}, {'end': 3094.519, 'text': "So he's making the case that space and time are not fundamental.", 'start': 3091.678, 'duration': 2.841}], 'summary': 'Discussion on consciousness, purpose, suffering, and pleasure, with a reference to the case against reality.', 'duration': 31.729, 'max_score': 3062.79, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s3062790.jpg'}, {'end': 3161.374, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3128.91, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 3129.971, 'text': "So it's the metaphysics.", 'start': 3128.91, 'duration': 1.061}, {'end': 3131.432, 'text': "I think it's metaphysics of quality.", 'start': 3130.211, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 3138.737, 'text': "But his supposition is that it's not physical reality that's fundamental.", 'start': 3132.533, 'duration': 6.204}, {'end': 3141.759, 'text': "It's not informational information that's fundamental.", 'start': 3139.077, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 3143, 'text': "It's value.", 'start': 3142.28, 'duration': 0.72}, {'end': 3146.723, 'text': "So he actually, and it's a beautiful book.", 'start': 3144.301, 'duration': 2.422}, {'end': 3148.044, 'text': 'I highly recommend it.', 'start': 3147.043, 'duration': 1.001}, {'end': 3152.49, 'text': 'He essentially is refuting causality itself.', 'start': 3149.229, 'duration': 3.261}, {'end': 3156.192, 'text': 'We think A causes B.', 'start': 3153.231, 'duration': 2.961}, {'end': 3161.374, 'text': 'This book makes the case that B values precondition A.', 'start': 3156.192, 'duration': 5.182}], 'summary': 'Metaphysics of quality challenges causality; b values precondition a.', 'duration': 32.464, 'max_score': 3128.91, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s3128910.jpg'}, {'end': 3331.127, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3263.304, 'weight': 11, 'content': [{'end': 3270.269, 'text': "And then we're establishing this social consensus as to those labels, which we call words, and we're using that to communicate.", 'start': 3263.304, 'duration': 6.965}, {'end': 3275.191, 'text': 'And when we communicate, we can start to build these other things.', 'start': 3270.83, 'duration': 4.361}, {'end': 3277.811, 'text': 'This is like the Yuval Harari imagined orders.', 'start': 3275.211, 'duration': 2.6}, {'end': 3283.773, 'text': "So we can create these useful fictions, whether it's the nation state or human rights or money.", 'start': 3278.051, 'duration': 5.722}, {'end': 3290.414, 'text': 'And that allows us to cooperate flexibly in large numbers so that we can better contend with reality.', 'start': 3284.213, 'duration': 6.201}, {'end': 3292.735, 'text': 'We can produce more complicated things.', 'start': 3290.514, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 3297.336, 'text': 'We can enlarge that bubble of civilization against entropy.', 'start': 3294.095, 'duration': 3.241}, {'end': 3300.937, 'text': "And that's what capitalism is all about.", 'start': 3298.496, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 3309.365, 'text': "It's about further specializing knowledge, further enriching mankind's treasury of knowledge and doing it.", 'start': 3301.157, 'duration': 8.208}, {'end': 3315.821, 'text': "But to do that, the communication media that we're using, the words have to have stable meaning.", 'start': 3309.766, 'duration': 6.055}, {'end': 3326.585, 'text': "The money needs to have value that's dependable, right? It needs to be something that's, it's not dictated by any one group.", 'start': 3316.801, 'duration': 9.784}, {'end': 3329.726, 'text': "It's reached by consensus of the entire group.", 'start': 3327.005, 'duration': 2.721}, {'end': 3331.127, 'text': "That's how.", 'start': 3330.667, 'duration': 0.46}], 'summary': "Establishing social consensus through words enables cooperation and progress, as seen in capitalism's role in enriching mankind's treasury of knowledge and stabilizing value through consensus.", 'duration': 67.823, 'max_score': 3263.304, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s3263304.jpg'}, {'end': 3433.269, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3402.425, 'weight': 14, 'content': [{'end': 3408.012, 'text': "that the notions of space and time is just like a silly, useful construct that's not at all connected.", 'start': 3402.425, 'duration': 5.587}, {'end': 3417.16, 'text': "You're starting to look at like Stephen Wolfram's 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way at a cost lower than the final solution I'm delivering to my customer.", 'start': 3770.687, 'duration': 6.592}, {'end': 3781.106, 'text': "I'm selling it at a price higher than the productive factors I combine to create it.", 'start': 3777.419, 'duration': 3.687}, {'end': 3790.875, 'text': "And in that iterative process, we're constantly discovering new and better ways of solving problems or satisfying wants.", 'start': 3782.91, 'duration': 7.965}, {'end': 3794.898, 'text': 'So we could say to go out and dig a hole right?', 'start': 3791.476, 'duration': 3.422}], 'summary': 'Assembling at lower cost, selling at higher price, discovering new solutions.', 'duration': 24.211, 'max_score': 3770.687, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s3770687.jpg'}, {'end': 3869.568, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3841.221, 'weight': 17, 'content': [{'end': 3845.203, 'text': "I'm trying to generalize the idea of tool to how to think about it, because I keep..", 'start': 3841.221, 'duration': 3.982}, {'end': 3851.547, 'text': 'I keep just, when you say tool, I keep imagining different tool, like specific concentrations of a tool.', 'start': 3845.883, 'duration': 5.664}, {'end': 3861.732, 'text': "I'm trying to see, so the price is a pragmatic truth that's communicating value in this network.", 'start': 3852.247, 'duration': 9.485}, {'end': 3865.575, 'text': 'Subjective demands against objective supply.', 'start': 3861.873, 'duration': 3.702}, {'end': 3869.208, 'text': "subjective So it's, it's an economic democracy.", 'start': 3866.727, 'duration': 2.481}, {'end': 3869.568, 'text': 'Got it.', 'start': 3869.308, 'duration': 0.26}], 'summary': 'Generalizing the idea of tool to communicate value in economic democracy.', 'duration': 28.347, 'max_score': 3841.221, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s3841221.jpg'}, {'end': 4014.284, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3985.177, 'weight': 18, 'content': [{'end': 3991.378, 'text': 'and if we interfere with that free market process again, if we overstep, which this maybe ties into murder.', 'start': 3985.177, 'duration': 6.201}, {'end': 3998.92, 'text': "if you start to be coercive against life, liberty or property, so if you're forcibly taking someone's life,", 'start': 3991.378, 'duration': 7.542}, {'end': 4004.161, 'text': "you're breaking down the trust in that market that generates these pragmatic truths.", 'start': 3998.92, 'duration': 5.241}, {'end': 4014.284, 'text': "if you forcibly infringe on someone's liberty, right, um, for any reason other than them originally breaking or infringing on life,", 'start': 4004.161, 'duration': 10.123}], 'summary': 'Interference with free market may lead to breakdown of trust and pragmatic truths.', 'duration': 29.107, 'max_score': 3985.177, 'thumbnail': 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The discussion highlights the politicization of mask-wearing, which shifted the exploration of masks' effectiveness in preventing pandemics from a scientific perspective to being a tool of politics and philosophy in April.", 'Exploration of the effectiveness of masks in preventing pandemics. The speaker was initially part of a group of scientists exploring the effectiveness of masks in preventing the spread of pandemics, emphasizing the scientific interest in understanding viral particles and tools for pandemic prevention.', "Brief conversation about Bitcoin and space-time. A brief conversation about Bitcoin's potential critiques, the concept of a 'boating accident' as a way to claim the loss of Bitcoin, and a shift to discussing the fundamental nature of space-time and the concept of universal Darwinism."]}, {'end': 2678.388, 'start': 2268.017, 'title': 'Universal darwinism and reality', 'summary': "Discusses the concept of universal darwinism, as described in the book 'the case against reality' by donald hoffman, and its implications for the nature of reality, individual identity, and consciousness, while also examining the relationship between value, relevance, and human action.", 'duration': 410.371, 'highlights': ["The concept of universal Darwinism and its application to various aspects of life, including economics, is explored, with reference to the book 'The Case Against Reality' by Donald Hoffman. The concept of universal Darwinism, as described in 'The Case Against Reality' by Donald Hoffman, is discussed and applied to various aspects of life, such as economics.", "The quote from 'The Case Against Reality' by Donald Hoffman, describing universal Darwinism and its ability to address the question of whether natural selection favors true perceptions, is presented. A quote from 'The Case Against Reality' by Donald Hoffman is provided, addressing the ability of universal Darwinism to determine if natural selection favors true perceptions.", 'Exploration of the viewpoint that life is viewed as information propagating through flesh, with the interpretation of DNA as a code for ideas and nature as the selector of winning ideas based on environmental conditions. The interpretation of life as information propagating through flesh, with DNA seen as a code for ideas and nature selecting winning ideas based on environmental conditions, is examined.', 'Discussion on the potential detachment from the concept of biological identity and the value of ideas over physical replication, and the hypothesis that individual experiences cannot be replicated. The potential detachment from biological identity, the value of ideas over physical replication, and the hypothesis that individual experiences cannot be replicated is explored.', 'The argument that space and time are not objective reality but a biological interface, with the notion that different animals have unique interfaces for navigating reality, is presented. The argument that space and time are not objective reality but a biological interface, and the idea that different animals have unique interfaces for navigating reality, is discussed.', 'The examination of value, relevance, and human action, with the assertion that value is inseparable from human action and anything that accelerates or impedes human goal-directed action is deemed as useful or obstructive. The examination of value, relevance, and human action, with the assertion that value is inseparable from human action and the categorization of actions as useful or obstructive, is presented.']}, {'end': 3182.873, 'start': 2679.577, 'title': 'Austrian economics and the realm of human action', 'summary': 'Discusses the realm of human action and austrian economics, emphasizing the non-materialist viewpoint, the fundamental role of ideas, and the potential for algorithmatizing intelligence. it delves into the concept of error correction as a form of intelligence, the role of human consciousness in generating objective functions, and the influence of value systems on creating the future.', 'duration': 503.296, 'highlights': ['The chapter explores the realm of human action and Austrian economics, highlighting the non-materialist viewpoint and the fundamental role of ideas, with a focus on the relevance of things to goal-directed action.', 'It discusses the potential algorithmatization of intelligence and the conversion of the ability to generate and mold ideas into computational systems.', 'The concept of error correction as a form of intelligence is explored, emphasizing the role of intelligence in rendering information from experiences and error correction towards valuable goals.', 'The influence of human consciousness in generating objective functions is discussed, highlighting the connection between purpose, consciousness, and the lessening of suffering.', 'The chapter also delves into the influence of value systems on creating the future, challenging the notion of causality and emphasizing the role of moral decisions in shaping outcomes.']}, {'end': 3447.578, 'start': 3183.334, 'title': 'The nature of value and human understanding', 'summary': 'Explores the fundamental role of values in human understanding, the potential connection between consciousness and the laws of physics, and the influence of stable meanings in communication and market dynamics.', 'duration': 264.244, 'highlights': ['The role of values in creating the best outcomes is emphasized in wisdom traditions related to religion. The transcript discusses how wisdom traditions related to religion emphasize the importance of values in creating the best outcomes.', 'Panpsychists argue that consciousness might be a fundamental property of nature, potentially connected to the notion of value. The conversation delves into the concept proposed by panpsychists, suggesting that consciousness may be a fundamental property of nature, potentially linked to the notion of value.', 'The significance of stable meanings in communication and market dynamics is highlighted, emphasizing the need for dependable value in currency. The importance of stable meanings in communication and market dynamics is discussed, emphasizing the necessity of dependable value in currency for effective functioning.', 'The potential connection between physics and human understanding is explored, considering the idea that physics might not fully capture certain fundamental properties of nature. The conversation delves into the potential connection between physics and human understanding, considering the notion that physics may not fully capture certain fundamental properties of nature.', 'Exploration of alternative perspectives on reality, including the potential existence of multiple dimensions and mathematical structures underlying everything. The discussion explores alternative perspectives on reality, including the potential existence of multiple dimensions and mathematical structures underlying everything.']}, {'end': 4113.667, 'start': 3447.598, 'title': "Market's pragmatic truth", 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of pragmatic truth generated by markets, including the price as an exchange ratio, tools and innovations, and virtue, which helps in coordinating human action and evolving virtues, while also serving as a discovery process for competition.', 'duration': 666.069, 'highlights': ['The price is the most truthful exchange ratio, which compresses all known market realities into a single actionable number, coordinating human action and serving as an economic nerve signal. The price represents the collective subjective demand and purchasing power of humanity against the objective supply of capital and resources, serving as an economic nerve signal and a data point for decision making.', 'Entrepreneurs constantly discover new and better ways of solving problems or satisfying wants, leading to the creation of tools and innovations, which are fundamental knowledge structures used to better satisfy human wants. Entrepreneurs experiment to satisfy consumer wants at a profit, leading to the creation of tools and innovations that represent the best ways known to solve problems and satisfy wants.', 'Virtue, as competitive and cooperative competency, is sharpened over time and reflects the characteristics, mindsets, and heuristics that are most useful for satisfying customer wants, while interfering with the free market process can break down trust and corrupt the intersubjective fabric of money and markets. Competitive and cooperative competency evolves into virtue, reflecting the most useful characteristics, mindsets, and heuristics for satisfying customer wants. Interfering with the free market process can lead to a breakdown of trust and corruption in the intersubjective fabric of money and markets.']}], 'duration': 2095.13, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s2018537.jpg', 'highlights': ["The politicization of mask-wearing shifted exploration of masks' effectiveness from a scientific to a political tool.", "Exploration of masks' effectiveness in preventing pandemics emphasizes scientific interest in pandemic prevention.", "Brief conversation about Bitcoin's potential critiques and the fundamental nature of space-time and universal Darwinism.", 'The concept of universal Darwinism is applied to various aspects of life, including economics.', 'Life is viewed as information propagating through flesh, with DNA as a code for ideas and nature as the selector of winning ideas.', 'Space and time are seen as a biological interface, and different animals have unique interfaces for navigating reality.', 'Value is inseparable from human action, and anything that accelerates or impedes human goal-directed action is deemed useful or obstructive.', 'The chapter explores human action and Austrian economics, highlighting the non-materialist viewpoint and the fundamental role of ideas.', 'The potential algorithmatization of intelligence and the conversion of the ability to generate and mold ideas into computational systems.', 'The concept of error correction as a form of intelligence is explored, emphasizing the role of intelligence in rendering information from experiences.', 'The influence of human consciousness in generating objective functions is discussed, highlighting the connection between purpose, consciousness, and the lessening of suffering.', 'The role of value systems in creating the future is emphasized, challenging the notion of causality and emphasizing the role of moral decisions.', 'Wisdom traditions related to religion emphasize the importance of values in creating the best outcomes.', 'Panpsychists propose that consciousness may be a fundamental property of nature, potentially linked to the notion of value.', 'The importance of stable meanings in communication and market dynamics is discussed, emphasizing the necessity of dependable value in currency.', 'The potential connection between physics and human understanding is explored, considering the idea that physics might not fully capture certain fundamental properties of nature.', 'The price represents the collective subjective demand and purchasing power of humanity against the objective supply of capital and resources.', 'Entrepreneurs constantly discover new and better ways of solving problems or satisfying wants, leading to the creation of tools and innovations.', 'Virtue, as competitive and cooperative competency, is sharpened over time and reflects the characteristics, mindsets, and heuristics that are most useful for satisfying customer wants.']}, {'end': 4995.39, 'segs': [{'end': 4373.666, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4347.724, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 4353.809, 'text': "when he comes back to reality and he's starting over from zero, his cost of living is substantially lower, starting over from zero,", 'start': 4347.724, 'duration': 6.085}, {'end': 4355.951, 'text': 'than he would be out in the wilderness on his own.', 'start': 4353.809, 'duration': 2.142}, {'end': 4362.677, 'text': "Right So it's the the accumulation of capital stock is the buffer against uncertainty for everyone.", 'start': 4356.712, 'duration': 5.965}, {'end': 4371.184, 'text': 'And it gives you actually more potential to go out and experiment, to go out and confront the chaos of nature,', 'start': 4363.477, 'duration': 7.707}, {'end': 4373.666, 'text': 'because you are better healed effectively.', 'start': 4371.184, 'duration': 2.482}], 'summary': 'Starting over from zero reduces cost of living, accumulation of capital provides buffer against uncertainty, enabling more 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'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s4460993.jpg'}, {'end': 4561.199, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4536.213, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 4547.454, 'text': 'Again, just as network security for the economic trade network and anything that Any government function that goes beyond those three core functions which,', 'start': 4536.213, 'duration': 11.241}, {'end': 4550.195, 'text': 'by the way, are pretty much the core tenants of morality as well.', 'start': 4547.454, 'duration': 2.741}, {'end': 4555.257, 'text': "So government's just really intended to preserve natural law, if you will.", 'start': 4550.475, 'duration': 4.782}, {'end': 4561.199, 'text': 'Anything that goes beyond that moves us closer to an unfree market.', 'start': 4556.017, 'duration': 5.182}], 'summary': 'Government should preserve natural law to maintain a free market.', 'duration': 24.986, 'max_score': 4536.213, 'thumbnail': 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4675.128, 'duration': 2.501}, {'end': 4682.93, 'text': 'So the point of this is that human intervention right?', 'start': 4678.489, 'duration': 4.441}, {'end': 4689.591, 'text': 'Even the intention behind North American authorities managing that forest fire is to create less destruction.', 'start': 4683.01, 'duration': 6.581}], 'summary': "North america's forest fires create long-term volatility, destroying soil fertility.", 'duration': 31.533, 'max_score': 4658.058, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s4658058.jpg'}, {'end': 4971.436, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4939.819, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 4944.042, 'text': 'saying that robber breed love is a communist and the ideals of communism are beautiful.', 'start': 4939.819, 'duration': 4.223}, {'end': 4947.624, 'text': 'yeah, context matters people.', 'start': 4944.042, 'duration': 3.582}, {'end': 4948.625, 'text': 'sorry, go ahead.', 'start': 4947.624, 'duration': 1.001}, {'end': 4953.188, 'text': 'um, but to your point, it does not scale right.', 'start': 4948.625, 'duration': 4.563}, {'end': 4964.913, 'text': 'as we move into this larger system of socioeconomic cooperation, which is necessary to deepen the division of labor, to generate more wealth, right?', 'start': 4953.188, 'duration': 11.725}, {'end': 4971.436, 'text': 'We need to interact with one another on much larger scales than this communistic utopian ideal.', 'start': 4964.953, 'duration': 6.483}], 'summary': "Communism doesn't scale for larger socioeconomic cooperation and wealth generation.", 'duration': 31.617, 'max_score': 4939.819, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s4939819.jpg'}], 'start': 4113.667, 'title': 'The role of capitalism and human intervention in free markets', 'summary': 'Delves into the role of capitalism in mitigating risk and confronting chaos, emphasizing the accumulation of capital and the limitations of a purely free market. it also discusses the impact of human intervention in free markets, emphasizing the absence of a pure free market, government overstepping, and adverse effects of central banking.', 'chapters': [{'end': 4487.651, 'start': 4113.667, 'title': 'The power of capitalism in confronting chaos', 'summary': 'Discusses the role of capitalism in mitigating risk and confronting chaos, the pain as a basis for being right, and the importance of accumulating capital in facing uncertainty, while also addressing the limitations of a purely free market and the historical significance of the gold standard.', 'duration': 373.984, 'highlights': ['The accumulation of capital stock is the buffer against uncertainty for everyone, providing more potential to go out and experiment and confront the chaos of nature. Capital accumulation serves as a buffer against uncertainty, reducing the overall risk of existence and enabling individuals to confront the chaos of nature with more potential for experimentation.', 'Pain is the inarguable basis of being right, encouraging us to change trajectory and move towards our valued aim. The experience of pain serves as a catalyst for change, motivating individuals to adjust their course towards their desired outcomes.', 'The discussion on the limitations of a purely free market and the historical significance of the gold standard in governing government actions. Exploration of the constraints of a purely free market and the historical influence of the gold standard in regulating government behaviors.']}, {'end': 4995.39, 'start': 4487.651, 'title': 'The impact of human intervention in free markets', 'summary': 'Discusses the impact of human intervention in free markets, highlighting the absence of a pure free market, the consequences of government overstepping its core functions, and the adverse effects of central banking on free market principles.', 'duration': 507.739, 'highlights': ['The absence of a pure free market due to the historical monopolization and coercion of money, leading to a lack of true free market examples The historical monopolization and coercion of money has prevented the existence of a pure free market, hindering the understanding of its potential impact.', 'The adverse effects of government overstepping its core functions by introducing regulations and coercion, leading to a gradation towards an unfree market and monopolization Government overstepping its core functions by introducing regulations and coercion leads to a gradual shift towards an unfree market, ultimately resulting in monopolization.', "The negative impact of central banking on free market principles, with the example of the United States' resistance to central banking and subsequent implementation of the Federal Reserve The implementation of central banking, such as the Federal Reserve in the United States, contradicts free market principles and has had a negative impact on the economy."]}], 'duration': 881.723, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s4113667.jpg', 'highlights': ['Capital accumulation serves as a buffer against uncertainty, reducing the overall risk of existence and enabling individuals to confront the chaos of nature with more potential for experimentation.', 'The experience of pain serves as a catalyst for change, motivating individuals to adjust their course towards their desired outcomes.', 'Exploration of the constraints of a purely free market and the historical influence of the gold standard in regulating government behaviors.', 'The historical monopolization and coercion of money has prevented the existence of a pure free market, hindering the understanding of its potential impact.', 'Government overstepping its core functions by introducing regulations and coercion leads to a gradual shift towards an unfree market, ultimately resulting in monopolization.', 'The implementation of central banking, such as the Federal Reserve in the United States, contradicts free market principles and has had a negative impact on the economy.']}, {'end': 6632.492, 'segs': [{'end': 5174.998, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5138.428, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 5145.671, 'text': 'We kind of brought up religion and Joseph Campbell and myth and the propagation of ideas.', 'start': 5138.428, 'duration': 7.243}, {'end': 5150.152, 'text': 'Before I forget, I wanted to ask your thoughts about this.', 'start': 5147.291, 'duration': 2.861}, {'end': 5160.376, 'text': "Jordan Peterson, I haven't really understood exactly, be able to pin him down exactly what he sees as the role of religion.", 'start': 5151.613, 'duration': 8.763}, {'end': 5171.075, 'text': "in human society, but it feels like he's describing it as having value for us.", 'start': 5162.128, 'duration': 8.947}, {'end': 5174.998, 'text': 'The ideas of myth are valuable.', 'start': 5171.415, 'duration': 3.583}], 'summary': 'Discussion on the role of religion and myth in society and the value they hold.', 'duration': 36.57, 'max_score': 5138.428, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s5138428.jpg'}, {'end': 5255.416, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5231.049, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 5239.932, 'text': 'but to me that points towards the preeminence of action and how important action is versus your cognitive 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'duration': 6.243}, {'end': 5385.691, 'text': "the more capital stock we've accumulated, the easier life is, the less barbaric we have to be.", 'start': 5380.848, 'duration': 4.843}, {'end': 5395.318, 'text': "whereas if we're living in conditions of true scarcity, um, then we tend to be a bit more barbaric towards one another.", 'start': 5385.691, 'duration': 9.627}, {'end': 5403.123, 'text': 'and that too to dovetail this into something largely unrelated, but i think is really important is inflation.', 'start': 5395.318, 'duration': 7.805}], 'summary': 'Morality evolves with capital stock; scarcity leads to barbarism. inflation is important.', 'duration': 28.518, 'max_score': 5374.605, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s5374605.jpg'}, {'end': 5956.655, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5929.89, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 5941.483, 'text': "So that's such a nice, clean explanation of what is money with the five elements and gold ultimately won out because of the last piece of scarcity.", 'start': 5929.89, 'duration': 11.593}, {'end': 5942.143, 'text': "That's right.", 'start': 5941.703, 'duration': 0.44}, {'end': 5944.606, 'text': 'And to get to maybe dig a little deeper there.', 'start': 5942.544, 'duration': 2.062}, {'end': 5949.952, 'text': 'So scarcity, we commonly think of scarcity as strictly a supply.', 'start': 5944.686, 'duration': 5.266}, {'end': 5955.254, 'text': "uh, property where if there's not much of something, then it's scarce.", 'start': 5951.233, 'duration': 4.021}, {'end': 5956.655, 'text': "but it's not actually true.", 'start': 5955.254, 'duration': 1.401}], 'summary': 'Gold won out due to scarcity as a supply property.', 'duration': 26.765, 'max_score': 5929.89, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s5929890.jpg'}, {'end': 6585.216, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6559.261, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 6565.943, 'text': 'So in terms of divisibility, each Bitcoin can be broken down into 100 million subunits called a Satoshi.', 'start': 6559.261, 'duration': 6.682}, {'end': 6572.105, 'text': 'If that divisibility were ever a problem, which actually..', 'start': 6568.624, 'duration': 3.481}, {'end': 6575.092, 'text': 'There was a question that came up recently.', 'start': 6573.871, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 6581.514, 'text': 'If you divide the world population by the total supply of Bitcoin, you end up at like 0.3 Bitcoin per person.', 'start': 6575.112, 'duration': 6.402}, {'end': 6585.216, 'text': 'Call it 300,000 Satoshis per person.', 'start': 6582.035, 'duration': 3.181}], 'summary': 'Bitcoin can be divided into 100 million subunits called satoshi; 0.3 bitcoin per person, equivalent to 300,000 satoshis.', 'duration': 25.955, 'max_score': 6559.261, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s6559261.jpg'}], 'start': 4995.39, 'title': 'Evolution of money and central planning vs free market', 'summary': 'Discusses the inefficiency and corruption of centralized planning, emphasizing the superiority of free market; explores moral progression, mythology, inflation, and cancel culture; and delves into defining money, its evolution, and the transition to bitcoin as a superior monetary technology.', 'chapters': [{'end': 5255.416, 'start': 4995.39, 'title': 'Central planning vs free market', 'summary': 'Discusses the inefficiency and corruption of centralized planning, emphasizing the superiority of free market in disseminating knowledge and creating wealth.', 'duration': 260.026, 'highlights': ['Centralized planning leads to inefficiency and corruption due to limited data throughput and lack of market checks on pricing decisions.', 'Free market allows for efficient dissemination of knowledge and wealth creation due to its decentralized nature and access to accurate pricing.', "Jordan Peterson's view on religion emphasizes the preeminence of action and the utility of following moral codes, contributing to societal benefits."]}, {'end': 5729.27, 'start': 5255.416, 'title': 'Mythology, morality, and inflation', 'summary': 'Explores the moral progression from the old testament to the new testament, the foundational role of mythology in organizing societies, the impact of inflation on perceived scarcity and divisiveness, and the connection between inflation and cancel culture.', 'duration': 473.854, 'highlights': ["The Bible's role in moral progression The chapter discusses the moral progression from the Old Testament to the New Testament, illustrating the shift from a barbaric society to one honoring individual sovereignty above the state.", 'Mythology as a form of data compression The chapter highlights the role of mythology as a form of data compression, organizing societies around stories to coordinate action across space and time.', 'Impact of inflation on perceived scarcity and divisiveness The discussion delves into the impact of inflation on perceived scarcity, explaining how artificial increase in prices amplifies divisiveness and combative behavior.', 'Connection between inflation and cancel culture The chapter explores the link between inflation and cancel culture, suggesting that inflation increases the natural predilection to be combative due to amplified perceived scarcity.']}, {'end': 6140.952, 'start': 5729.27, 'title': 'Defining money and its evolution', 'summary': 'Explores the fundamental properties of money, highlighting its role as a technology and the evolution from monetary metals to fiat currency, emphasizing scarcity and marketability as key determinants. it discusses the dominance of gold as money due to its scarcity and resistance to inflation, and the transition to paper currency driven by the need for improved portability.', 'duration': 411.682, 'highlights': ["Gold's dominance as money Gold's market cap of 10 trillion dollars, with 8 trillion driven by its use as a store of value, underlining its dominance as money.", "Definition of marketability aspects of money Money's marketability based on five key services it renders, emphasizing the need for divisibility, durability, recognizability, portability, and scarcity.", "Scarcity and resistance to inflation of gold Gold's prominence as the most scarce money due to its resistance to inflation, establishing its role as 'hard money'.", 'Importance of scarcity in defining money Scarcity not solely based on supply, but on demand exceeding supply, establishing an economic good with a market price, emphasizing the perpetual scarcity of money due to its marketable nature.', "Transition from gold to paper currency The evolution from gold to paper currency rooted in the need for improved portability to facilitate the movement of value across space, addressing gold's limitation in this aspect."]}, {'end': 6632.492, 'start': 6140.972, 'title': 'Evolution of money: gold to fiat to bitcoin', 'summary': 'Discusses the evolution of money from gold to fiat currency to bitcoin, highlighting the introduction of counterparty risk in custodial systems, the technological shortcomings of gold leading to the rise of central banking, and the superior monetary technology of bitcoin in terms of divisibility, durability, and portability.', 'duration': 491.52, 'highlights': ['The introduction of counterparty risk in custodial systems and the rise of central banking due to the technological shortcomings of gold The need to trust the custodian in centralized custody introduces counterparty risk, leading to the emergence of banking and central banking as a convenience mechanism to rectify the portability shortcomings of gold.', 'The superior monetary technology of Bitcoin in terms of divisibility, durability, and portability Bitcoin is highlighted as the most superior monetary technology in human history, perfecting the properties of money with features such as perfect divisibility, durability, and the ability to transact across scales, addressing the shortcomings of traditional forms of money.', "The impact of gold's technological shortcomings on the rise of central banking The rise of central banking is attributed to the technological shortcomings of gold, as the need for a central bank would have been less if gold had high portability, leading to less dependence on a central bank."]}], 'duration': 1637.102, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s4995390.jpg', 'highlights': ["Free market's efficient dissemination of knowledge and wealth creation due to its decentralized nature and accurate pricing.", 'Centralized planning leads to inefficiency and corruption due to limited data throughput and lack of market checks on pricing decisions.', "The Bible's role in moral progression from the Old Testament to the New Testament, illustrating the shift from a barbaric society to one honoring individual sovereignty above the state.", 'Mythology as a form of data compression, organizing societies around stories to coordinate action across space and time.', "Gold's market cap of 10 trillion dollars, with 8 trillion driven by its use as a store of value, underlining its dominance as money.", 'Bitcoin as the most superior monetary technology in human history, perfecting the properties of money with features such as perfect divisibility, durability, and the ability to transact across scales.']}, {'end': 7997.461, 'segs': [{'end': 6752.391, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6722.665, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6726.667, 'text': "Yeah And by then, we've got much bigger problems than money, right? Yeah.", 'start': 6722.665, 'duration': 4.002}, {'end': 6728.068, 'text': "that's right.", 'start': 6727.648, 'duration': 0.42}, {'end': 6729.71, 'text': "so okay, so that's durability.", 'start': 6728.068, 'duration': 1.642}, {'end': 6730.971, 'text': 'so portability.', 'start': 6729.71, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 6732.332, 'text': "bitcoin's pure information.", 'start': 6730.971, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 6735.755, 'text': "it can move at the speed of light can't get much faster than that.", 'start': 6732.332, 'duration': 3.423}, {'end': 6743.021, 'text': 'uh, recognizability refers to the ability to verify the veracity of the money or or its authenticity.', 'start': 6735.755, 'duration': 7.266}, {'end': 6752.391, 'text': 'so you can actually, when we used to transact gold, were time-honored techniques for verifying that it was gold and not gold-plated lead,', 'start': 6743.021, 'duration': 9.37}], 'summary': "Bitcoin's attributes include durability, portability, and recognizability, with the ability to move at the speed of light.", 'duration': 29.726, 'max_score': 6722.665, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s6722665.jpg'}, {'end': 7406.789, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7376.924, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 7382.629, 'text': 'And even these other crypto assets that settle more quickly, they settle with less assurance of finality.', 'start': 7376.924, 'duration': 5.705}, {'end': 7388.474, 'text': 'So Nick Carter has a great piece on this actually called The Settlement Assurance is Stupid.', 'start': 7383.75, 'duration': 4.724}, {'end': 7399.905, 'text': "It's really good, where the gist of it is that there is more work being done in each block of Bitcoin that it is less vulnerable to reversion.", 'start': 7389.255, 'duration': 10.65}, {'end': 7406.789, 'text': "So it's giving you higher degrees of assurance that your settlement or your trade has occurred with finality,", 'start': 7400.745, 'duration': 6.044}], 'summary': "Bitcoin's settlement process provides higher assurance of finality due to more work being done in each block.", 'duration': 29.865, 'max_score': 7376.924, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s7376924.jpg'}, {'end': 7537.867, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7513.548, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 7520.312, 'text': "So we could say, you can move it pretty quickly anywhere in the world as long as you're willing to bid up for the block space.", 'start': 7513.548, 'duration': 6.764}, {'end': 7524.194, 'text': "But you can't satisfy all the world's economic volume.", 'start': 7521.012, 'duration': 3.182}, {'end': 7529.357, 'text': "You can't do 300 million transactions per second like you can on a centralized database like Visa.", 'start': 7524.974, 'duration': 4.383}, {'end': 7537.867, 'text': 'But Bitcoin needs to be this, it has to be a store value first before it can be a medium of exchange.', 'start': 7530.737, 'duration': 7.13}], 'summary': 'Bitcoin is limited in transaction speed but aims to be a store of value before a medium of exchange.', 'duration': 24.319, 'max_score': 7513.548, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s7513548.jpg'}, {'end': 7587.628, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7563.497, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 7569.76, 'text': "It's still early, but there's a lot of throughput already being used on the Lightning Network.", 'start': 7563.497, 'duration': 6.263}, {'end': 7576.048, 'text': 'it makes some slight trade-offs in terms of the trust minimization of Bitcoin.', 'start': 7572.344, 'duration': 3.704}, {'end': 7581.935, 'text': 'You end up trusting these smart contracts instead to move the Bitcoin, but you pick up nearly unlimited transaction throughput.', 'start': 7576.068, 'duration': 5.867}, {'end': 7585.566, 'text': "So that's how, and that's how biology evolves.", 'start': 7582.984, 'duration': 2.582}, {'end': 7586.727, 'text': "That's how the internet evolved.", 'start': 7585.586, 'duration': 1.141}, {'end': 7587.628, 'text': 'It evolves in layers.', 'start': 7586.747, 'duration': 0.881}], 'summary': 'Lightning network achieves high throughput at the cost of trust minimization.', 'duration': 24.131, 'max_score': 7563.497, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s7563497.jpg'}, {'end': 7880.832, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7860.758, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 7872.026, 'text': "there's some anecdotal history here where There's the PGP case, which, in the United States, the court was trying to classify it as munitions.", 'start': 7860.758, 'duration': 11.268}, {'end': 7880.832, 'text': 'When we were shipping this pretty good privacy software overseas, government wanted to classify it as munitions and restrict that exportation.', 'start': 7872.326, 'duration': 8.506}], 'summary': 'Us court 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["Bitcoin's durability is attributed to its distributed nature, similar to the Bible, making it virtually infinitely durable and resistant to unilateral changes, and its reliance on computing infrastructure, which can be a vulnerability if all computers were destroyed.", 'The portability aspect of Bitcoin is emphasized as it being pure information that can move at the speed of light, making it incredibly fast for transactions.', 'Recognizability of Bitcoin is highlighted as it can be verified for its authenticity and total supply, with full node operators being able to audit the total supply of Bitcoin at any time, providing certainty of the holdings.', 'The ability of full nodes to contain information about every transaction and verify the authenticity of the money is emphasized, making it unlike any money in history.']}, {'end': 7141.011, 'start': 6803.503, 'title': 'Bitcoin: ultimate store of value', 'summary': 'Highlights the unique properties of bitcoin as the ultimate store of value, including its fixed supply, anti-dilutive nature, and discovery of absolute scarcity, leading to perfect competition and maximizing wealth generation.', 'duration': 337.508, 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's fixed supply ensures certainty of the total supply and one's share, contributing to its status as the ultimate store of value.", 'The anti-dilutive nature of Bitcoin, with lost Bitcoin contributing to everyone else, reinforces its scarcity and value.', "Bitcoin's discovery of absolute scarcity has major ramifications, as it cannot deviate from its fixed and diminishing supply curve, leading to perfect competition and maximizing wealth generation.", 'The discovery of absolute scarcity in Bitcoin is a major breakthrough, bringing the world closer to a state of perfect competition and increasing wealth generation to an unprecedented extent.', 'The size of all Bitcoin transactions can be stored in a single computer, ensuring that the blockchain does not blow up too quickly, supporting its sustainability and decentralization.', 'The increase in computing power necessary to run a full node, as seen in the Bitcoin Cash civil war, could compromise decentralization, highlighting the trade-offs in transaction throughput and decentralization.', "Bitcoin's properties ensure perfect competition and increase wealth generation, pulling the world closer to a state of perfect competition than ever before."]}, {'end': 7333.101, 'start': 7143.351, 'title': 'Bitcoin as digital gold and network effects', 'summary': "Discusses the scarcity of bitcoin, its network effects, and why there is likely to be only one digital gold, citing the bitcoin cash fork as a case study and emphasizing the combination of monetary properties of gold with the internet in bitcoin's design.", 'duration': 189.75, 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's scarcity and network effects make it likely to be the only digital gold, as evidenced by the Bitcoin cash fork and the combination of gold's monetary properties with the Internet in Bitcoin's design. Bitcoin's scarcity and network effects, as evidenced by the Bitcoin cash fork and the combination of gold's monetary properties with the Internet in Bitcoin's design, make it likely to be the only digital gold.", 'Money is valued based on its liquidity and network effects, leading to a winner-take-all market for money. Money is valued based on its liquidity and network effects, leading to a winner-take-all market for money.', 'Bitcoin is described as the ideological synthesis of gold, combining the monetary properties of gold with the Internet, making it essentially perfected as money. Bitcoin is described as the ideological synthesis of gold, combining the monetary properties of gold with the Internet, making it essentially perfected as money.', "Bitcoin's establishment of liquidity in the network and the combination of technology and social layer make it difficult for a superior technology to out-compete Bitcoin. Bitcoin's establishment of liquidity in the network and the combination of technology and social layer make it difficult for a superior technology to out-compete Bitcoin."]}, {'end': 7997.461, 'start': 7333.101, 'title': 'Bitcoin evolution and potential impact on financial systems', 'summary': 'Explores the evolution of bitcoin from a collectible to a store of value, its potential as sound money, the trade-offs between portability and transaction throughput, and the potential challenges and implications of governmental intervention in its adoption.', 'duration': 664.36, 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's evolution from a collectible to a store of value, its sound money potential, and its optimized supply cap and inflation resistance. Bitcoin's evolution mirrors that of gold, transitioning from a collectible to a store of value. Its optimized supply cap and inflation resistance position it as sound money.", "The trade-offs between portability and transaction throughput, emphasizing the need for Bitcoin to prioritize as a store of value before becoming a medium of exchange. Bitcoin's prioritization of supply cap protection over trade-offs for transaction throughput and the relevance of Lightning Network for increased transaction throughput.", "The potential challenges and implications of governmental intervention in Bitcoin's adoption, including the unenforceability of a government ban and the incentive for other jurisdictions to enable its usage. The unenforceability of a government ban on Bitcoin due to its nature as pure information and the potential for other jurisdictions to enable its usage, drawing attention and incentives away from the banning jurisdiction."]}], 'duration': 1363.848, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s6633613.jpg', 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's durability is attributed to its distributed nature, making it virtually infinitely durable and resistant to unilateral changes.", "Bitcoin's fixed supply ensures certainty of the total supply and one's share, contributing to its status as the ultimate store of value.", "Bitcoin's scarcity and network effects make it likely to be the only digital gold, as evidenced by the Bitcoin cash fork and the combination of gold's monetary properties with the Internet in Bitcoin's design.", "Bitcoin's evolution from a collectible to a store of value, its sound money potential, and its optimized supply cap and inflation resistance.", "The potential challenges and implications of governmental intervention in Bitcoin's adoption, including the unenforceability of a government ban and the incentive for other jurisdictions to enable its usage."]}, {'end': 8893.586, 'segs': [{'end': 8052.16, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8021.631, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 8029.977, 'text': "But I don't think, the other thing about this is, so we saw the internet out-compete intranets.", 'start': 8021.631, 'duration': 8.346}, {'end': 8036.981, 'text': 'And that we could say that open source networks tend to out-compete closed source networks.', 'start': 8031.698, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 8038.382, 'text': "And there's a really good reason for this.", 'start': 8037.042, 'duration': 1.34}, {'end': 8046.613, 'text': "And it's because in a closed source network, there are costs associated with defending the network itself.", 'start': 8039.323, 'duration': 7.29}, {'end': 8052.16, 'text': 'So you have to the network owners.', 'start': 8048.195, 'duration': 3.965}], 'summary': 'Open source networks out-compete closed source networks due to lower defense costs.', 'duration': 30.529, 'max_score': 8021.631, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s8021631.jpg'}, {'end': 8137.823, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8091.867, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 8098.851, 'text': "that's why i think opens, that's why internet out competes internet and that's why open source networks are going to eat closed source networks.", 'start': 8091.867, 'duration': 6.984}, {'end': 8108.538, 'text': 'so what bitcoin would be in that lens is the ultimate open source monetary network, devouring closed source central bank monetary networks,', 'start': 8098.851, 'duration': 9.687}, {'end': 8117.664, 'text': "and i i just don't see how there's no possibility of unilaterally stopping bitcoin or destroying it,", 'start': 8108.538, 'duration': 9.126}, {'end': 8121.194, 'text': "so then they're more likely to regulate or tax it.", 'start': 8117.664, 'duration': 3.53}, {'end': 8127.637, 'text': 'And again, the other fallacy here is that a lot of people tend to think of governments as these singular,', 'start': 8123.395, 'duration': 4.242}, {'end': 8132.88, 'text': 'indivisible entities that just move under one plan.', 'start': 8127.637, 'duration': 5.243}, {'end': 8137.823, 'text': "But in reality, it's a lot of people, right? And a lot of people with loosely coupled interests and agendas and whatnot.", 'start': 8132.92, 'duration': 4.903}], 'summary': 'Bitcoin is an open-source monetary network competing with closed-source central banks, likely to be regulated or taxed due to its unstoppable nature.', 'duration': 45.956, 'max_score': 8091.867, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s8091867.jpg'}, {'end': 8204.191, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8160.801, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 8165.625, 'text': 'at a central bank or sovereign wealth fund level, as an insurance policy against its success.', 'start': 8160.801, 'duration': 4.824}, {'end': 8174.444, 'text': 'And once you start to acquire something and then you have a vested economic interest in its monetization,', 'start': 8167.336, 'duration': 7.108}, {'end': 8179.67, 'text': 'I think it kind of dissolves any of the power structures that are arrayed against it from the inside.', 'start': 8174.444, 'duration': 5.226}, {'end': 8187.679, 'text': "So I've written a lot about this in a new series called Sovereignism, which is based loosely on a book called The Sovereign Individual.", 'start': 8180.591, 'duration': 7.088}, {'end': 8195.806, 'text': "And that's the general thesis, is that microprocessing technology would devour our organizational models,", 'start': 8188.94, 'duration': 6.866}, {'end': 8197.607, 'text': 'the most important of which is the nation state.', 'start': 8195.806, 'duration': 1.801}, {'end': 8204.191, 'text': "So I think we're going into this world where coercion and violence is just much less rewarding.", 'start': 8198.327, 'duration': 5.864}], 'summary': 'Investing in microprocessing tech will dissolve power structures and reshape organizational models like nation states, leading to a less rewarding environment for coercion and violence.', 'duration': 43.39, 'max_score': 8160.801, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s8160801.jpg'}, {'end': 8377.571, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8347.851, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 8349.473, 'text': "we've maximized individual choice.", 'start': 8347.851, 'duration': 1.622}, {'end': 8353.616, 'text': 'uh, the more wealth that society has created and the more it has outcompeted.', 'start': 8349.473, 'duration': 4.143}, {'end': 8355.817, 'text': 'uh, the systems that have come before it.', 'start': 8353.616, 'duration': 2.201}, {'end': 8359.061, 'text': 'the latest would be, you know, capitalism triumphing over socialism.', 'start': 8355.817, 'duration': 3.244}, {'end': 8362.499, 'text': 'Before maybe we eat.', 'start': 8361.058, 'duration': 1.441}, {'end': 8363.299, 'text': 'you are in Texas.', 'start': 8362.499, 'duration': 0.8}, {'end': 8365.141, 'text': 'You brought over some brisket.', 'start': 8363.92, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 8370.866, 'text': "Before we maybe indulge in that, let me bring up one quick topic and then we'll take a break.", 'start': 8365.682, 'duration': 5.184}, {'end': 8377.571, 'text': 'And the topic of what some may term the toxicity of the Bitcoin community.', 'start': 8371.706, 'duration': 5.865}], 'summary': 'Maximized individual choice and capitalism triumphing over socialism in texas, with a mention of the toxicity of the bitcoin community.', 'duration': 29.72, 'max_score': 8347.851, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s8347851.jpg'}, {'end': 8507.308, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8474.279, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 8477.641, 'text': "a white paper talking about how great your technology is going to be and how it's going to change the world,", 'start': 8474.279, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 8482.703, 'text': 'and you can raise 30 million dollars in bitcoin or ethereum in 30 seconds, kind of thing.', 'start': 8477.641, 'duration': 5.062}, {'end': 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and individual sovereignty The rise of Bitcoin challenges traditional power structures by potentially transforming the economic landscape and empowering individual sovereignty.", "Bitcoin's impact on governments and centralized institutions Bitcoin's rise poses a challenge to traditional power structures, including governments and centralized institutions.", 'Addressing the toxicity within the Bitcoin community The discussion delves into the toxicity within the Bitcoin community and how it serves as a filter to protect against scammy and fraudulent ideas, while also recognizing the need for a balance in its approach.']}], 'duration': 896.125, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s7997461.jpg', 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's potential to out-compete closed source central bank monetary networks due to its nature as an open network.", 'Increased taxation of bitcoin is likely as governments aim to make it more white market and 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it can be as positive.", 'start': 9282.64, 'duration': 8.149}, {'end': 9292.812, 'text': 'It can be innovative or it can be a negative.', 'start': 9291.05, 'duration': 1.762}, {'end': 9294.714, 'text': 'You can be trying to steal from people.', 'start': 9293.112, 'duration': 1.602}, {'end': 9303.339, 'text': "Yeah That might be, I think that's a useful piece just to kind of see the crypto world through that lens.", 'start': 9294.734, 'duration': 8.605}, {'end': 9306.1, 'text': "And that's how Bitcoiners are thinking all the time.", 'start': 9303.399, 'duration': 2.701}], 'summary': 'Human tendency to seek gain drives crypto world, with potential for innovation or theft.', 'duration': 23.46, 'max_score': 9282.64, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s9282640.jpg'}, {'end': 9363.538, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9335.636, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 9340.939, 'text': 'it could facilitate prediction markets and prediction 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9608.252, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9578.87, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 9584.291, 'text': "by assigning this person to a term, you're actually going to create bad outcomes for yourself, because you're not going to understand that person.", 'start': 9578.87, 'duration': 5.421}, {'end': 9592.643, 'text': "I do also think there's a failure of our social media technology that incentivizes that kind of reduction to a label.", 'start': 9585.259, 'duration': 7.384}, {'end': 9596.645, 'text': "It's just the viral nature of that reduction.", 'start': 9593.204, 'duration': 3.441}, {'end': 9608.252, 'text': 'So not only do we humans naturally do that, our social media platforms make that easier, more fun, more effective.', 'start': 9596.826, 'duration': 11.426}], 'summary': 'Assigning labels to people creates bad outcomes. social media technology incentivizes reduction to labels, making it easier, more fun, and more effective.', 'duration': 29.382, 'max_score': 9578.87, 'thumbnail': 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christ, in promoting a world driven by love rather than fear, and the need for individuals to lead by example.', 'duration': 302.345, 'highlights': ["The importance of using skillful disagreement and striving towards selfless actions, with references to Christopher Hitchens and the moral consciousness of Christ. Emphasizes the need for skillful disagreement and selfless actions, drawing parallels between Christopher Hitchens' intellectual prowess and the moral consciousness of Christ.", 'Promoting a world driven by love rather than fear, and the need for individuals to lead by example. Advocates for a world driven by love and the importance of individuals leading by example to foster a culture of love over fear.', "The impact of individual actions on the progress of the world and the need for more individuals to create and innovate. Emphasizes the influence of individual actions on the world's progress and advocates for more individuals to create and innovate to drive progress."]}, {'end': 9459.86, 'start': 9196.511, 'title': 'Navigating the crypto landscape', 'summary': 'Discusses the emotional and personal ties people have with cryptocurrencies, the need to navigate through the landscape while avoiding harmful ideas, and the importance of acknowledging and learning from mistakes in this complex world.', 'duration': 263.349, 'highlights': ['The emotional and personal ties people have with cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, make it difficult to purely explore ideas (e.g., prediction markets) without feeling threatened, hindering curiosity and exploration.', 'The need to navigate the crypto landscape without giving a platform to harmful ideas is emphasized, acknowledging that mistakes will be made, and learning from them is crucial in this complex world.', 'The author highlights the challenge of exploring the crypto world while avoiding harmful ideas and taking on the responsibility of acknowledging and learning from potential mistakes, emphasizing the importance of not condemning individuals for their mistakes.']}, {'end': 10251.473, 'start': 9459.92, 'title': 'The nature of mistakes and the impact of social media', 'summary': "Discusses the nature of mistakes, the impact of social media on human interaction, and the potential influence of fixing the monetary system on social behavior, with a focus on eric weinstein's views on bitcoin and the gold standard.", 'duration': 791.553, 'highlights': ["Eric Weinstein's views on fixing the monetary system and its potential downstream effects on social behavior are discussed, with a focus on Bitcoin and the gold standard. Eric Weinstein's exploration of the impact of fixing the monetary system on social behavior, particularly through Bitcoin and the gold standard, is highlighted.", 'The impact of social media on reducing individuals to labels and its potential negative outcomes is examined, with emphasis on the viral nature of such reduction and the need for technological friction to counteract it. The discussion delves into the negative impact of social media on reducing individuals to labels and the need for technological solutions to counteract this trend.', 'The discussion touches on the nature of mistakes and the need to embrace them as a way to advance, highlighting the role of pain as information and the necessity of learning from failure. The nature of mistakes and the importance of embracing them as a means of advancement, as well as the role of pain as information and learning from failure, are highlighted.']}, {'end': 10524.194, 'start': 10251.473, 'title': "Satoshi's impact on bitcoin and wealth", 'summary': "Discusses the impact of satoshi nakamoto's wealth, including his 60 billion liquid net worth in bitcoin, and the influence of individuals like marcus aurelius and elon musk in the context of power and fame. it also delves into the significant bitcoin investments made by major companies, particularly by microstrategy, which has acquired upwards of two billion dollars in bitcoin, leading the charge in bitcoin institutional adoption.", 'duration': 272.721, 'highlights': ["Satoshi Nakamoto's 60 billion liquid net worth in Bitcoin is discussed, making him the most wealthy person in the world on a liquid asset basis at current prices.", 'The influence of individuals like Marcus Aurelius and Elon Musk is explored in the context of power and fame.', "MicroStrategy's significant Bitcoin investments, totaling upwards of two billion dollars, are highlighted, with the company leading the charge in Bitcoin institutional adoption.", "The conversation with Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, spans around 11 hours and reshapes the speaker's worldview, particularly in framing money as energy and its role in channeling energy across space and time."]}], 'duration': 1630.608, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s8893586.jpg', 'highlights': ["Satoshi Nakamoto's 60 billion liquid net worth in Bitcoin makes him the most wealthy person in the world on a liquid asset basis at current prices.", "MicroStrategy's significant Bitcoin investments total upwards of two billion dollars, leading the charge in Bitcoin institutional adoption.", "The importance of using skillful disagreement and striving towards selfless actions, drawing parallels between 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about long term relationship building versus going out and getting wasted.', 'start': 11273.985, 'duration': 4.085}, {'end': 11283.733, 'text': 'and money too impinges very closely on our time preference.', 'start': 11279.13, 'duration': 4.603}, {'end': 11286.775, 'text': 'uh, and again time preference is the austrian term.', 'start': 11283.733, 'duration': 3.042}, {'end': 11290.598, 'text': "so low time preference means you're long-term oriented.", 'start': 11286.775, 'duration': 3.823}, {'end': 11295.881, 'text': "high time preference means you're short-term oriented, which can be a little trippy for some people because it sounds backwards.", 'start': 11290.598, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 11307.028, 'text': 'but um, if your money constantly loses value, you are incentivized to become more short-term oriented.', 'start': 11295.881, 'duration': 11.147}, {'end': 11312.632, 'text': 'you are handicapped in your ability to plan for the future, because your money,', 'start': 11307.028, 'duration': 5.604}], 'summary': "Long-term thinking leads to more moral behavior and better relationship building, affected by money's impact on time preference.", 'duration': 42.051, 'max_score': 11270.581, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s11270581.jpg'}, {'end': 11494.202, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11435.998, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 11439.56, 'text': 'so then he would maintain his profit margin.', 'start': 11435.998, 'duration': 3.562}, {'end': 11447.382, 'text': 'or the third one is that he could choose to water down his wine or use inferior ingredients,', 'start': 11439.56, 'duration': 7.822}, {'end': 11452.644, 'text': 'so he could use cheaper inputs and maintain the output at the same price.', 'start': 11447.382, 'duration': 5.262}, {'end': 11459.301, 'text': 'um, So he could basically start selling his customers an inferior product for the same price to preserve his profit margin.', 'start': 11452.644, 'duration': 6.657}, {'end': 11463.906, 'text': "Now again, case number one, it's not very palatable.", 'start': 11460.662, 'duration': 3.244}, {'end': 11465.627, 'text': "He doesn't want to eat the economic loss.", 'start': 11464.106, 'duration': 1.521}, {'end': 11473.135, 'text': "Case number two, it's not very good either, because he's then incentivizing all of his customers to go shop other wine makers if he doubles his price.", 'start': 11465.968, 'duration': 7.167}, {'end': 11478.539, 'text': 'So, human nature being what it is, trying to get something for nothing.', 'start': 11474.238, 'duration': 4.301}, {'end': 11487.361, 'text': 'inflation actually seeps into other industries by encouraging producers into option three, which is to deceive your customer in the short run.', 'start': 11478.539, 'duration': 8.822}, {'end': 11490.762, 'text': 'And again, this would be done initially at the margins.', 'start': 11488.081, 'duration': 2.681}, {'end': 11492.342, 'text': 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'text': 'all like if you fix.', 'start': 11727.432, 'duration': 2.101}, {'end': 11731.815, 'text': 'i forgot what the phrase was fix the money, fix the world.', 'start': 11729.533, 'duration': 2.282}, {'end': 11733.576, 'text': 'yeah, fix the money, fix the world.', 'start': 11731.815, 'duration': 1.761}, {'end': 11740.218, 'text': "that Again, things that sound good I'm skeptical of by nature.", 'start': 11733.576, 'duration': 6.642}], 'summary': 'Discussion on product quality, creativity, innovation, and the influence of money on world issues.', 'duration': 24.554, 'max_score': 11715.664, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s11715664.jpg'}], 'start': 10524.955, 'title': "Money's role and moral implications", 'summary': "Explores money as energy and its role in channeling energy, discusses bitcoin's decentralization and moral implications, delves into monopolized money's moral implications, and examines the negative effects of inflation on free market dynamics and social cohesion.", 'chapters': [{'end': 10825.307, 'start': 10524.955, 'title': 'Money as energy and channeling energy', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of money as energy and its role in channeling energy, highlighting the evolution of energy harnessing tools and the significance of gold as a token of energy, challenging the traditional perspective of money solely as time.', 'duration': 300.352, 'highlights': ['Money as a claim on all forms of energy and gold as a token of excess energy Money is portrayed as representing a claim on all other forms of energy, with gold becoming a token of the excess energy created by the market economy, challenging the traditional notion of money as solely time-based.', 'Evolution of energy harnessing tools: fire, cooking, missiles, and hydraulics The discussion covers the evolution of energy harnessing tools such as fire, cooking, missiles, and hydraulics, illustrating the progression towards more efficient ways to channel energy and its impact on human development.', "Gold's market value and proof of work The significance of gold's market value and the concept of proof of work associated with obtaining gold are explored, highlighting the energy expenditure necessary to obtain gold and its role in maintaining market value and producer integrity."]}, {'end': 11091.029, 'start': 10826.488, 'title': 'Bitcoin decentralization & moral money', 'summary': 'Discusses the decentralization of bitcoin, emphasizing the role of nodes and miners, and delves into the concept of moral and immoral action in the context of money, drawing parallels with animal behavior and emphasizing the amorality of tools like money. it also highlights the role of proof of work in rooting the idea of sound money into thermodynamic reality.', 'duration': 264.541, 'highlights': ["The decentralization of Bitcoin is largely driven by the nodes actually, which aren't actually mining. They're just choosing which rule set to implement. Nodes play a crucial role in the decentralization of Bitcoin by choosing which rule set to implement.", "Maintaining the block size at a manageable level is key to maintaining node decentralization. The block size's management is crucial for maintaining node decentralization.", 'The nodes carry the idea of the protocol, like the specifics, so in some sense they have more power. Nodes hold power in carrying the specifics of the protocol, contributing to the decentralization of Bitcoin.', "Without the miners, bitcoin is just an idea, and we've the idea of bitcoin is maybe existed even before bitcoin. The absence of miners reduces Bitcoin to a mere idea, emphasizing the integral role of miners in its existence.", "Money's amorality is explored, drawing parallels with animal behavior and emphasizing the amorality of tools like money. The chapter delves into the amorality of money and tools, drawing parallels with animal behavior and moral evolution.", "Satoshi's role in rooting the idea of sound money into thermodynamic reality is highlighted. Satoshi's contribution to grounding the idea of sound money into thermodynamic reality is emphasized."]}, {'end': 11619.721, 'start': 11091.569, 'title': 'Monopolized money and its moral implications', 'summary': "Delves into the moral implications of monopolized money, highlighting how central banks' control over money creation leads to inflation, incentivizes short-term thinking, and induces moral compromises in businesses, ultimately causing a corrosive effect on society. bitcoin is presented as the antidote to this moral cancer, with its 0% terminal inflation rate.", 'duration': 528.152, 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's 0% terminal inflation rate serves as an antidote to the moral implications of monopolized money, offering a solution to the societal corrosion caused by inflation and its ripple effects on behavior and character. Bitcoin's 0% terminal inflation rate; societal corrosion caused by inflation; ripple effects on behavior and character", "Central banks' control over money creation leads to inflation, incentivizing short-term thinking and inducing moral compromises in businesses, ultimately causing a corrosive effect on society. Central banks' control over money creation; inflation's incentivization of short-term thinking; induction of moral compromises in businesses", "The increase in money supply due to central bank actions forces businesses into dilemmas, leading to economic losses, price hikes, or compromises in product quality, ultimately propagating a corrosive, contagious moral effect throughout the economy. Increase in money supply due to central bank actions; businesses' dilemmas and economic losses; propagating corrosive, contagious moral effect throughout the economy"]}, {'end': 12052.613, 'start': 11620.282, 'title': 'Negative effects of inflation', 'summary': 'Discusses the negative effects of inflation on free market dynamics, capital allocation, innovation, social cohesion, and the comparison between capitalism and communism, including the collapse of the soviet union due to economic strategies and centralized computing models.', 'duration': 432.331, 'highlights': ["Inflation distorts price signals and confuses capital allocation, leading to an exacerbated boom and bust cycle, ultimately breaking the market's function of generating innovation. Distortion of price signals, exacerbated business cycle, impact on innovation.", 'Inflation suppresses innovation and exacerbates the boom and bust business cycle, leading to over-borrowing and unsustainable projects that contribute to market collapse. Suppression of innovation, over-borrowing, market collapse.', 'Inflation pollutes the pursuit of virtue and confuses economic perceptions, hindering the quality of products, creativity, and innovation. Impact on pursuit of virtue, confusion of economic perceptions, hindering creativity and innovation.', 'Social cohesion is inversely proportional to the inflation rate, with hyperinflation leading to a loss of meaning and relevance of money, ultimately de-civilizing society. Relationship between inflation and social cohesion, impact of hyperinflation on society.', 'Natural price deflation in a hard money economy can induce civilization by reflecting collective knowledge, while artificially forcing prices higher via central banks creates the opposite effect. Impact of natural price deflation, contrast with artificial price inflation.', "Capitalism outcompetes communism due to its ability to generate more wealth, honor the integrity of price signals, and allow free enterprise, ultimately leading to the bankruptcy of the USSR. Comparison of capitalism and communism, role of wealth generation, impact on USSR's bankruptcy."]}], 'duration': 1527.658, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s10524955.jpg', 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's 0% terminal inflation rate; societal corrosion caused by inflation; ripple effects on behavior and character", "Central banks' control over money creation; inflation's incentivization of short-term thinking; induction of moral compromises in businesses", "Increase in money supply due to central bank actions; businesses' dilemmas and economic losses; propagating corrosive, contagious moral effect throughout the economy", 'Distortion of price signals, exacerbated business cycle, impact on innovation', 'Suppression of innovation, over-borrowing, market collapse', 'Impact on pursuit of virtue, confusion of economic perceptions, hindering creativity and innovation', 'Relationship between inflation and social cohesion, impact of hyperinflation on society', 'Impact of natural price deflation, contrast with artificial price inflation', "Comparison of capitalism and communism, role of wealth generation, impact on USSR's bankruptcy", "Satoshi's role in rooting the idea of sound money into thermodynamic reality is highlighted", 'Nodes hold power in carrying the specifics of the protocol, contributing to the decentralization of Bitcoin', "The significance of gold's market value and the concept of proof of work associated with obtaining gold are explored, highlighting the energy expenditure necessary to obtain gold and its role in maintaining market value and producer integrity", 'The absence of miners reduces Bitcoin to a mere idea, emphasizing the integral role of miners in its existence', "Money's amorality is explored, drawing parallels with animal behavior and emphasizing the amorality of tools like money", "The block size's management is crucial for maintaining node decentralization", 'The discussion covers the evolution of energy harnessing tools such as fire, cooking, missiles, and hydraulics, illustrating the progression towards more efficient ways to channel energy and its impact on human development', 'Money is portrayed as representing a claim on all other forms of energy, with gold becoming a token of the excess energy created by the market economy, challenging the traditional notion of money as solely time-based']}, {'end': 12794.01, 'segs': [{'end': 12108.421, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12080.732, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 12085.336, 'text': 'I think his audience is one of the most important audiences in the world to understand Bitcoin.', 'start': 12080.732, 'duration': 4.604}, {'end': 12089.08, 'text': 'These people that are conscientious and responsible.', 'start': 12085.356, 'duration': 3.724}, {'end': 12097.836, 'text': "I think they'll quickly understand Bitcoin's value proposition and help elucidate it to the world.", 'start': 12091.312, 'duration': 6.524}, {'end': 12100.957, 'text': "I'm trying to remember what he said about it.", 'start': 12098.476, 'duration': 2.481}, {'end': 12108.421, 'text': 'Basically, I think his support of Bitcoin is grounded in the kind of people who are opposing Bitcoin.', 'start': 12101.357, 'duration': 7.064}], 'summary': 'Bitcoin has a valuable proposition, understood by an important audience, who can help elucidate it to the world.', 'duration': 27.689, 'max_score': 12080.732, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s12080732.jpg'}, {'end': 12223.481, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12191.46, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 12193.522, 'text': "you don't have to just go to war on your own resources.", 'start': 12191.46, 'duration': 2.062}, {'end': 12201.131, 'text': 'you can now pillage the commonwealth and pull for the savings of society as a whole before you go bankrupt.', 'start': 12193.522, 'duration': 7.609}, {'end': 12203.912, 'text': 'indeed, this is what hitler did right.', 'start': 12201.471, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 12211.095, 'text': 'hitler hyperinflated, uh in the weimar republic to to fund his war efforts.', 'start': 12203.912, 'duration': 7.183}, {'end': 12223.481, 'text': 'um, and frankly, every dictator, every world war, every internment camp in history was made possible by the weaponization of money in fiat currency.', 'start': 12211.095, 'duration': 12.386}], 'summary': 'Using financial resources of society can prevent bankruptcy, as hitler did by hyperinflating the weimar republic to fund his war efforts.', 'duration': 32.021, 'max_score': 12191.46, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s12191460.jpg'}, {'end': 12265.578, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12238.66, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 12249.226, 'text': 'And by purifying that primary operating system of human action, I think we can eliminate this pathological hierarchy that is, unfortunately,', 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that in order to figure out what the solution is.', 'start': 12470.21, 'duration': 5.822}, {'end': 12479.763, 'text': 'I tend to not put the blame on the individual.', 'start': 12477.142, 'duration': 2.621}, {'end': 12483.984, 'text': 'I tend to believe most people are good and want to see themselves as good.', 'start': 12479.883, 'duration': 4.101}, {'end': 12493.568, 'text': "And so in that case, it's very difficult to be truly malevolent as you would need to be to control, to gain centralized power at the large scale.", 'start': 12485.505, 'duration': 8.063}, {'end': 12505.757, 'text': 'But I know a lot of conspiracy theorists and just a lot of people think that there is evil humans in the world that seek power,', 'start': 12494.807, 'duration': 10.95}, {'end': 12508.52, 'text': 'maintain that power and they use that power for bad purposes.', 'start': 12505.757, 'duration': 2.763}, {'end': 12514.413, 'text': "think they're just people and they're just trying to get something for 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dominance paired with coercion to dominance paired with competence.', 'The concentration of power into too few hands can lead to the proliferation of evil, convincing individuals that their knowledge is complete, while Bitcoin forces the opposite outcome by restoring a balance of incentives and disincentives that help navigate reality.']}], 'duration': 741.397, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s12052613.jpg', 'highlights': ["Bitcoin's alignment with Jordan Peterson's views on hierarchical rectification and truth", 'The correlation between central banking and global warfare', "The potential impact of introducing Bitcoin to Jordan Peterson's audience", 'Bitcoin as a form of monetary speech can purify the primary operating system of human action', 'The institution of central banks is premised on deception and theft', 'In a Bitcoin denominated world, the consumer becomes sovereign', 'The concentration of power into too 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'text': "That's your..", 'start': 13117.524, 'duration': 0.4}, {'end': 13126.513, 'text': "i don't know your mind or your spirit, signal that that is something meaningful to you and you, should you know to your point, reread it,", 'start': 13119.205, 'duration': 7.308}], 'summary': 'Kindle is convenient for reading, advocated rereading, found meaningful content.', 'duration': 28.559, 'max_score': 13097.954, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s13097954.jpg'}, {'end': 13191.363, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13169.158, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 13178, 'text': "maybe maps of meaning i don't know, but maps of meaning and human action are both extremely dense, but they're just you.", 'start': 13169.158, 'duration': 8.842}, {'end': 13180.56, 'text': 'i had to read those books very slow.', 'start': 13178, 'duration': 2.56}, {'end': 13182.281, 'text': 'you just have to take your time with them.', 'start': 13180.56, 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and the world wants you to be an adult in order to maintain the youthful spirit,', 'start': 13843.463, 'duration': 5.989}, {'end': 13857.405, 'text': "you have to use all the tools you can yeah, alcohol is one of them right To do all the stupid shit you can, even if you're like getting older.", 'start': 13849.452, 'duration': 7.953}, {'end': 13859.187, 'text': 'To lower the inhibitions.', 'start': 13857.946, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 13863.409, 'text': "Again, it's that taste of uncertainty that is the sweetness of life, right?", 'start': 13859.307, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 13868.072, 'text': "To be able to go out and be a flaneur at a party and not really know what you're going to do.", 'start': 13863.429, 'duration': 4.643}, {'end': 13871.695, 'text': 'And we have this draw to the wild side of life.', 'start': 13868.192, 'duration': 3.503}], 'summary': 'As we age, embracing the uncertainty and wildness of life, and using all available tools, including alcohol, to lower inhibitions and maintain a youthful spirit.', 'duration': 45.967, 'max_score': 13825.728, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s13825728.jpg'}, {'end': 13981.122, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13951.673, 'weight': 15, 'content': [{'end': 13952.354, 'text': "I'm more lucid.", 'start': 13951.673, 'duration': 0.681}, {'end': 13956.435, 'text': "So I'm not trying to be a proponent for like not drinking, but I just want to say.", 'start': 13953.174, 'duration': 3.261}, {'end': 13957.836, 'text': "But you're a proponent for sacrifice.", 'start': 13956.455, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 13960.016, 'text': 'I am a big proponent for sacrifice.', 'start': 13958.276, 'duration': 1.74}, {'end': 13970.761, 'text': 'Yes, Is there advice you would give to a young person today curious about Bitcoin, curious about how they succeed in the world,', 'start': 13960.096, 'duration': 10.665}, {'end': 13974.462, 'text': 'or both career wise and just in life in general??', 'start': 13970.761, 'duration': 3.701}, {'end': 13981.122, 'text': 'mean, the strongest piece of advice i have for this is beyond just bitcoin.', 'start': 13975.558, 'duration': 5.564}], 'summary': 'Advocating for sacrifice; advice on bitcoin and success for young people.', 'duration': 29.449, 'max_score': 13951.673, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s13951673.jpg'}, {'end': 14301.584, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 14268.906, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 14270.387, 'text': "I don't have anything to back that up, really.", 'start': 14268.906, 'duration': 1.481}, {'end': 14271.948, 'text': "It's just..", 'start': 14270.407, 'duration': 1.541}, {'end': 14279.373, 'text': "And the way you're framing it is making me think that love, we talked about sort of meditation, is..", 'start': 14271.948, 'duration': 7.425}, {'end': 14286.033, 'text': 'as opposed to thinking from an egocentric perspective of you,', 'start': 14282.771, 'duration': 3.262}, {'end': 14293.418, 'text': 'the individual operating in this world is allowing you to be empathetic towards the world and thereby think of the universe.', 'start': 14286.033, 'duration': 7.385}, {'end': 14295.179, 'text': 'think of the world acting through you.', 'start': 14293.418, 'duration': 1.761}, {'end': 14301.584, 'text': "Almost like accepting this notion that ideas have you, you don't have ideas.", 'start': 14295.86, 'duration': 5.724}], 'summary': 'Discussion on meditation and empathy, considering the concept of ideas having you, not vice versa.', 'duration': 32.678, 'max_score': 14268.906, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s14268906.jpg'}], 'start': 12794.01, 'title': 'Cultivating knowledge and ideation', 'summary': 'Discusses the impact of recommended books on diffusing materialist worldview, optimizing reading habits, leveraging podcasts for ideation during exercise, making sacrifices for success and knowledge, and exploring the connection between love, morality, and the universe.', 'chapters': [{'end': 13018.917, 'start': 12794.01, 'title': 'Books impacting reality', 'summary': 'Delves into the impact of three recommended books on diffusing the materialist worldview of reality, with a focus on mythology, austrian economics, and the fundamental nature of value.', 'duration': 224.907, 'highlights': ["Jordan Peterson's book, Maps of Meaning, provides a deep dive into mythology and its reflection in social structures and intra-psychic nature, offering a perspective that shapes the world and the way we think.", 'Human Action by Mises is considered the ultimate tome on Austrian economics, helping to explicate the non-materialist realm of relevance and laying out economic principles.', 'Leela by Robert Persig emphasizes the fundamental nature of value and moral action as the substrate of reality, aiming to retrain readers to perceive reality from a different perspective.']}, {'end': 13364.624, 'start': 13018.917, 'title': 'Optimizing reading habits', 'summary': 'Explores techniques for efficient reading, such as speed reading, annotating, and space repetition, while emphasizing the importance of deep thinking and synthesizing ideas. it also delves into the density and writing process of certain books, recommending tools like anki and readwise for retention and recall.', 'duration': 345.707, 'highlights': ["Jordan Peterson spent three hours a day writing for 15 years to write 'Maps of Meaning', rewriting every sentence in the book 50 times, showcasing the depth and effort behind the book's creation. The depth and effort behind Jordan Peterson's 'Maps of Meaning' is highlighted, with the author spending significant time and effort on its creation.", 'The importance of synthesizing ideas through reading, writing, and discussing, and the recommendation to revisit and deeply engage with meaningful content, is emphasized for a comprehensive understanding. The chapter underscores the significance of engaging with meaningful content through reading, writing, and discussing, ultimately advocating for a comprehensive understanding.', 'Recommendations for tools like Anki and Readwise for space repetition and recall, emphasizing their effectiveness in retaining key ideas and information, are provided, with personal endorsement and usage experiences. The effectiveness of Anki and Readwise for space repetition and recall is highlighted, with personal endorsement and usage experiences provided.', 'The benefits of speed reading, annotating, and rereading are discussed in optimizing reading habits, with a focus on internal dialogue reduction and deep thinking. The chapter discusses the benefits of speed reading, annotating, and rereading in optimizing reading habits, emphasizing internal dialogue reduction and deep thinking.']}, {'end': 13903.838, 'start': 13366.138, 'title': 'Podcast and ideation during exercise', 'summary': 'Highlights how the speaker exclusively listens to podcasts while exercising, finding a correlation between exercise and ideation, using different types of content to stimulate creativity, and the importance of solitude and boredom in generating valuable ideas.', 'duration': 537.7, 'highlights': ['The speaker exclusively listens to podcasts while exercising, finding a correlation between exercise and ideation. The speaker has transitioned from listening to music at the gym to exclusively listening to podcasts during activities such as walking or exercising, as it triggers a surge in creative ideas and serves as a source of inspiration for writing.', 'Using different types of content to stimulate creativity during exercise. The speaker listens to historical content related to World War I and II and brown noise, using them to remove distractions and generate ideas, followed by listening to brown noise to meditatively force himself to think through heavy ideas while running.', "Emphasizing the importance of solitude and boredom in generating valuable ideas. The speaker acknowledges the value of boredom and solitude, highlighting their role in allowing the subconscious to process and generate insights, cautioning against constant distractions from entertainment-based podcasts, and emphasizing the need to listen to one's inner voice for solitude and self-reflection."]}, {'end': 14170.92, 'start': 13903.838, 'title': 'Sacrifices for success and knowledge', 'summary': 'Highlights the importance of making sacrifices, investing in knowledge, and embracing mistakes in your 20s, including the benefits of abstaining from alcohol and the value of continuous learning and self-discovery.', 'duration': 267.082, 'highlights': ['The importance of sacrificing for success and self-improvement, including abstaining from alcohol, leading to better sleep, improved workouts, and heightened clarity. Better sleep, improved workouts, heightened clarity', 'Emphasizing the need to invest in knowledge first, highlighting that the world is changing faster than existing institutions can keep up with, encouraging continuous learning and self-education. Investing in knowledge, continuous learning, self-education', 'Reflecting on the value of making mistakes in your 20s, exploring different aspects of oneself, and the potential regret of not embracing self-improvement earlier. Value of mistakes in 20s, exploring different aspects of oneself, potential regret of not embracing self-improvement earlier']}, {'end': 14619.727, 'start': 14172.44, 'title': 'Love, morality, and the universe', 'summary': 'Explores the profound connection between love, morality, and the universe, emphasizing the importance of selfless action and embracing scarcity to create the best possible outcomes.', 'duration': 447.287, 'highlights': ['Love as a fundamental expression and its role in embracing the world and selfless action. The speaker discusses the broad definition of love and its role in embracing the world with selfless action, highlighting its fundamental role in the universe.', 'The concept of selflessness and the universe acting through individuals, embracing the idea that the universe created humans to experience itself. The concept of selflessness is explored, emphasizing the idea of the universe acting through individuals and humans being created to experience the universe.', 'The connection between love, moral action, and the best possible outcomes, reinforcing the idea of acting out of love to reflect the fundamental nature of reality. The discussion delves into the connection between love, moral action, and creating the best possible outcomes, emphasizing the reflection of the fundamental nature of reality through acting out of love.', "Embracing scarcity to create beauty and the importance of listening to one's heart for making decisions. The importance of embracing scarcity to create beauty is highlighted, along with the significance of listening to one's heart for making decisions.", 'Resolute acceptance of death and the philosophical perspective on embracing scarcity to propel towards proper action. The speaker discusses the resolute acceptance of death and the philosophical perspective on embracing scarcity to propel towards proper action.']}], 'duration': 1825.717, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HrehEWYj16s/pics/HrehEWYj16s12794010.jpg', 'highlights': ["Jordan Peterson's 'Maps of Meaning' offers a perspective that shapes the world and the way we think.", 'Human Action by Mises explicates the non-materialist realm of relevance and lays out economic principles.', 'Leela by Robert Persig aims to retrain readers to perceive reality from a different perspective.', "Jordan Peterson spent three hours a day writing for 15 years to write 'Maps of Meaning', rewriting every sentence in the book 50 times.", 'The chapter underscores the significance of engaging with meaningful content through reading, writing, and discussing.', 'Anki and Readwise are effective for space repetition and recall, with personal endorsement and usage experiences provided.', 'The chapter discusses the benefits of speed reading, annotating, and rereading in optimizing reading habits.', 'The speaker exclusively listens to podcasts while exercising, finding a correlation between exercise and ideation.', 'The speaker emphasizes the importance of solitude and boredom in generating valuable ideas.', 'The importance of sacrificing for success and self-improvement, including abstaining from alcohol, leading to better sleep, improved workouts, and heightened clarity.', 'Emphasizing the need to invest in knowledge first, encouraging continuous learning and self-education.', 'Reflecting on the value of making mistakes in your 20s, exploring different aspects of oneself, and the potential regret of not embracing self-improvement earlier.', 'The speaker discusses the broad definition of love and its role in embracing the world with selfless action.', 'The concept of selflessness is explored, emphasizing the idea of the universe acting through individuals and humans being created to experience the universe.', 'The discussion delves into the connection between love, moral action, and creating the best possible outcomes, emphasizing the reflection of the fundamental nature of reality through acting out of love.', "The importance of embracing scarcity to create beauty is highlighted, along with the significance of listening to one's heart for making decisions.", 'The speaker discusses the resolute acceptance of death and the philosophical perspective on embracing scarcity to propel towards proper action.']}], 'highlights': ["Satoshi Nakamoto's 60 billion liquid net worth in Bitcoin makes him the most wealthy person in the world on a liquid asset basis at current prices.", "Bitcoin's durability is attributed to its distributed nature, making it virtually infinitely durable and resistant to unilateral changes.", "Bitcoin's fixed supply ensures certainty of the total supply and one's share, contributing to its status as the ultimate store of value.", "Bitcoin's scarcity and network effects make it likely to be the only digital gold, as evidenced by the Bitcoin cash fork and the combination of gold's monetary properties with the Internet in Bitcoin's design.", "Bitcoin's potential to out-compete closed source central bank monetary networks due to its nature as an open network.", 'The historical monopolization and coercion of money has prevented the existence of a pure free market, hindering the understanding of its potential impact.', 'The implementation of central banking, such as the Federal Reserve in the United States, contradicts free market principles and has had a negative impact on the economy.', 'The conversation explores the history, philosophy, and future of money, emphasizing the willingness to engage in lengthy discussions and the importance of thoughtful exploration.', 'The concept of property is more than just the asset itself; it is the socially acknowledged relationship between a human and an asset, playing a crucial role in the fundamental layer of morality in capitalism.', 'The historical evolution of sovereignty, emphasizing its association with money and its gradual decentralization across various socio-economic models.']}