Bitcoin and the Power Projection Game | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 1 (WiM124)

01/26/22 • 86 min

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Jason Lowery from the US Space Force joins me for a multi-episode series exploring the first principles of physics, the ubiquity of organic power projection, and how Bitcoin changes the game.

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Jason's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonPLowery

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 First Principles of Physics
00:08:14 Constants in Reality: Is Bitcoin the First Constant in Economics?
00:12:14 Evolution: What Works is Kept
00:20:00 Evolutionary Power Projection and Cooperation
00:25:05 NYDIG
00:26:12 Force Across Distance = Work
00:28:40 What is Force?
00:33:01 Entrepreneurship in the Evolutionary Process
00:40:32 Life Succeeds Because it Hedges for “Tail Risks”
00:44:03 In Between Randomness and Structure is Life
00:49:11 Mammals, Opposable Thumbs, and Fire
00:53:50 Fire in Astronautical Engineering and Mammals Harnessing Fire
00:58:35 Humanoids Collaborating and Overcoming Dunbar’s Number
01:05:06 Ideas as the Ultimate Projection of Power
01:10:36 Forms of Power Through a Physics Lens
01:14:53 The Power Projection Game
01:20:24 Shared Abstractions & Establishing Pecking Order

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Jason Lowery from the US Space Force joins me for a multi-episode series exploring the first principles of physics, the ubiquity of organic power projection, and how Bitcoin changes the game.

Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/

GUEST
Jason's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonPLowery

WRITTEN WORK
Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/
Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/

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The Value of The Individual | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 4 (WiM123)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.

Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/

GUEST
Mike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 The Ambiguity of Insanity
00:02:52 The Example of the Zuni Cultural Immune System
00:06:36 The Totalitarian Impulse of Left-Hemispheric Dominance
00:10:16 Totalitarianism Rigidifies Due to Lacking Liquidity of Information
00:13:18 The Autophagy of Capitalism and the Cancer of Central Banking
00:17:40 Suffering as Attachment, Attachment as Static
00:21:13 The Compass of Morality Up and Down the Stack of Static Value Patterns
00:26:46 Demand as Dynamic Quality Generating the Static Quality of Supply
00:32:16 NYDIG
00:33:26 The Brujo and the Adaptivity of Ancient Zuni Culture
00:39:19 Cultural Patterns of Static and Dynamic Good
00:42:05 The Brujo as a Cultural Bridge Between Value Systems
00:46:41 Action as the Purposive Exchange of Value to Create The Good
00:48:14 Atonement as the Harmonization of Competing Intrapsychic Value Systems
00:52:41 Viewing Value as Primary Calls into Question Every Prior Perception
00:54:51 Hornevian Triads of Human Action in Respect to Volition
00:57:23 The Emergence of American Values
00:58:50 Incentive as the Ratio of Value Received to Value Given

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A Monetary Prism | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 1 (WiM125)

My friend and fellow student of money codenamed "Lester" joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the excellent book "The Twilight of Gold" by Melchior Palyi.

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GUEST
Lester's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProgrammableTx

BOOK
The Twilight of Gold: https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Twilight-Gold-1914-1936-Myths-Realities-Palyi/30927065697/bd

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Introduction to “The Twilight of Gold”
00:02:05 What is Money? It’s an Antivalue
00:08:59 Gold as the Governor of Government
00:12:16 Studying the Gold Standard as a Prism through which to See the Future
00:18:17 The Importance of the International Gold Standard to Humanity...
00:22:12 ...The Closest the World has ever been to a Pure Laissez-Faire Economy
00:24:30 NYDIG
00:25:38 The Gold Standard as a Non-Legislated Fount of Freedom
00:29:21 Background on the Author: Melchior Palyi
00:32:11 The Author was Warning Us About the Gathering Forces of Inflation
00:34:33 Fiat Currency Inflation: The Recurrent Self-Deception of Humanity
00:36:29 Imagining Inflation as a “Magic Syringe”
00:40:28 The Explosion of Zombie Mythology After Abolishing the Gold Standard
00:44:11 Financing World War 1 with the “Magic Fiat Syringe”
00:45:53 The Only 4 Ways Public Debt Can Be Paid...
00:49:47 Inflations Build on Themselves Exponentially
00:51:33 Reservoirs and Psychological Triggers of Inflation