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I do think I have good meaning for life.
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It's just that I feel like
things are way too easy.
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I had this thought in my mind, years ago,
that would be like really awesome to work
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on Bitcoin things and not really have
to have, a fiat job Well, I got that.
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Then I also realized when I got a
little bit deeper into Bitcoin stuff
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that I really want to, focus on doing
something really, really meaningful.
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And I, feel like working on
Bitcoin and especially like
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working on Bitcoin privacy.
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is probably one of the most urgent
things that we should be working on
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Welcome back to the
Freedom Footprint show.
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Today's guest is our good
friend Rafe from Wasabi.
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And this is the second time on the show.
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If you want an introduction to
Rafe and everything that he's up
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to, check out the first episode.
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But today we want to talk
about anything and everything.
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So, Rafe, welcome back to
the Freedom Footprint show.
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Great to have you as always.
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Luke.
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Thank you, Knut.
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Like, it's also like, really awesome
to be talking with you guys again.
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Yeah, great to have you back, uh,
uh, Rafael, and, uh, you're already
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on Madeira, as we understand it.
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yeah, there's this sovereign engineering
cohort, uh, that has been going on over
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here, like, already for like, 6 weeks.
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I mean, I just came in, uh, like, 2 weeks
ago, but it's really, really awesome.
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Like, there's, you know, like, 25 Nostr
and Bitcoin builders basically in here
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just creating havoc and, you know,
trying to orange pill the whole island.
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And I mean, it's actually
going pretty well.
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Uh, fantastic.
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It's Gigi and Pablo's project, right?
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Uh, yes, yes, they are mainly running it.
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Yeah, sounds, sounds absolutely fantastic.
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Yeah, I mean, this is a really
nice paradise island, so like, if
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you can take a little bit of your
time to come over here before the
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conference or to stay after it, I
think it's going to be worth it.
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yeah.
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Uh, and you.
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You have a bunch of topics that you want
to talk to us about today, and I looked
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through the notes there, and it sounds
really, really interesting, so I think
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we can just start getting into stuff
here, because, like, these are topics
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that just excite me by just reading them.
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So, the first point on that
list is censorship, and I guess
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Uh, or no, the first point is
it doesn't not matter who I am.
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Um, all right, I'll,
I'll take it away, Rafa.
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I mean, this is the first thing of like,
you know, it doesn't matter who I am.
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It's just the thing that
I've always wanted to say.
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And I always wonder, like, you know,
How, I mean, it's totally normal that in
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every podcast you're being asked, like,
you know, who you are and what do you do?
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It's an important context for the
viewer or the listener, but it's also
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something that a little bit bothers me
that no one is actually saying it out
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loud, or at least I haven't heard it
whenever they are asked that question,
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that it doesn't matter who I am.
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Like, whatever
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Rafa?
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well, that's the thing.
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I'm still kind of figuring it
out, but, the point is basically
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that, like, what I'm saying is
the thing that should matter.
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It's not really about who
I am or who is saying it.
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Like, if the things that I'm saying
out there, like, if they make sense.
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That's the only thing to care about.
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Who said it or where or
when or something like that.
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I mean, it might help you to get
a little bit more of that similar
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type of content or something, but in
general, people should not be looking
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into like, you know, some kind of
titles or, or anything like that.
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No, no, no, I, I, I totally agree.
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It's an ego dropping thing.
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And this is one of the most
refreshing things about the
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Bitcoin space in comparison to
the fiat space that, that I know.
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Like when I started working
in an office and fiat job.
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Like, before I, I had a title, or
like, before I climbed the hierarchy
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ladders, uh, before I started climbing
them, like, no one was listening to me.
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Because it's all about like,
uh, titles and, and stuff.
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And I think a lot of
institutions are that way too.
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So, so like, um, but Bitcoin is, it's so
refreshing because like, everything that
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matters is ideas and merits and like,
it's, it's a true meritocracy in that way.
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People don't really care about
your back, background as long as
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you have something clever to say.
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And like, Satoshi is the
prime example of that.
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Like, nobody even knows if he
has a master's degree or If it's
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flipping burgers, or if it was
flipping burgers, and nobody cares
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because the idea was good enough.
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Is that what you're thinking of when
you say it doesn't matter who I am?
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Yes, exactly.
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And it's just like, you know, I'm really
glad that Luke, now you basically just
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gave me exactly like, you know, the good
introduction where I don't have to go
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ahead and try to even explain like, you
know, who I am or what I do or anything,
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just like in Twitter, I just have in
my bio, like, I'm just another pleb.
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Like, it doesn't really matter.
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But yeah, this was just like,
you know, a small nuance that
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I wanted to throw out there.
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Like, if, you know, Luke would
be asking me to introduce myself.
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Yeah, there's, there's been and forth,
like people in Bitcoin have different
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opinions on The role of the ego.
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So some people want us to
drop our egos completely.
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And there's a, there's a very good
reason for doing that because most of
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the time your ego is what's actually
hindering you from getting ahead in life.
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Like being shy is just as
much of an ego thing as being.
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narcissistic in a way, because if
you're shy, that's also a vanity thing.
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Like you're not giving the world the
parts of you that you could give away.
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Like you could, you could be more open.
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You could be more.
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But for, for egotistical
reasons, you're not.
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So, so I think like, uh, there's
more to dropping your ego than
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just not being a narcissist.
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um, then, then you have people
like Svetsky, for instance, arguing
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for that ego is a very good thing.
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And it's a, it's a powerful
force in people and it should
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be embraced rather than dropped.
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So what, what are your
views on ego in general?
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I mean, that's a very good question.
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And I mean, I kind of totally
understand both points of view.
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Um, like it's, at least for me personally,
I try to totally exactly like kill my ego
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every now and then, uh, because I feel
like it makes me think a bit more clear.
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Like, I mean, maybe this is a good
segue to, to kind of like the, the topic
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of, you know, human relationships and
like, you know, how our brains work.
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Uh, but at least in my opinion, ego is
kind of like a part of the automatic self.
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So there's this book, uh, that I
might have mentioned to you guys
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before thinking fast and slow.
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Which is really, really, really, like,
worth reading, but it basically gives
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out this, like, idea, or at least how
I took it was that it's not really
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about, like, you know, humans being
fully conscious or, like, 100 percent
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all the time there, it's that it's, We
have just a glimpse of consciousness and
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majority of our time, majority of our
actions and our day basically goes just
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like through automation, just through
our habits, just like with animals.
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There's just these, let's say like
5 percent of the time we get this
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glimpse of consciousness where we
actually think of like, you know,
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what, like we can think back or, uh,
like look forward or, or whatever.
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Uh, I kind of feel like.
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Well, ego is a bit more of those,
like, automation related things.
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It's kind of, you are building up this,
like, small story of yourself and what
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you are and what you do over here.
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And, I mean, you can think of it
consciously, too, but it's just
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something that, like, automation
basically, like, activates the ego
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and pushes you to move into certain
directions or make certain decisions.
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And I think it is important.
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but I myself personally, like I would,
I would want to focus on just the like
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cognitive side and actually thinking
things through without like, you
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know, just the personal lens of mine,
which of course is important too, but
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Yeah, it's a hard, it's a hard thing to
do though, to be as objective as possible.
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But I guess, like, we have minds,
all three of us, that like doing
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that, I mean, we wouldn't be into
mathematics and praxeology and stuff
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if we didn't, we wouldn't, we probably
wouldn't be bitcoiners, I think
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that's sort of prerequisite, uh, for
Mo for, for real Bitcoin curiosity.
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Uh, at least, Yeah.
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Dan Daniel Kahneman.
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Was that the guy, Daniel Kahneman?
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Was that the, the, uh, the
guy who wrote the book?
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Right?
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I, I think I read half that book,
but it was a long, long time ago.
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So, uh, uh, I'll have
to reread it sometime.
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yeah, and it's also kind of like hard to
read or I mean, I, I tend to listen to it
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like in, you know, audio books, but that
book was something where I actually had
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to take like a pen and paper and like, you
know, write some things and numbers down.
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So I actually understand the.
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Yeah.
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The examples and, you know, things that
the book had over there, but it's to me,
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at least it's definitely like one of the
most powerful books that I've read, like
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understanding human biases and what we're
kind of like, you know, like programmed
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to do as just another life form.
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you just give us, tell us more about that?
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Like, more about what you learned there?
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So, um, I mean, the book is about
basically, well, at least how I took it.
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I mean, many people seem to have a little
bit different ideas about, like, what
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the book is trying to say over there.
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Uh, but at least to me, it's kind of like,
you know, uh, acknowledging how there is
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basically like two selves in our heads.
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Uh, you know, like there's the, the
automated self, which is basically
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like, you know, just animal instincts
and like emotions and just reactions.
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And then there is like exactly this,
like, you know, smaller cognitive
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side, like, and it's kind of like
the one that can actually think, you
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know, in the past, and it can look
into the future, look into the, like,
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the current situation and everything.
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It's the one that kind of like,
the most people seem to be thinking
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that that's their own, like, self.
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uh, but it's like the book is basically
saying that, you know, for a majority
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of the things that you're doing, uh,
throughout the day, it's not really that
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you have cognitively decided to do so.
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Like, for example, if I smoke a cigarette,
majority of the time, it's just automated.
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Like, it's something that triggered me.
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Like, you know, to actually do
the move of like reaching out
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to my pocket and grabbing a
cigarette or something like that.
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And I kind of realized it only after
I'm halfway through the cigarette,
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like, why am I smoking this?
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Like, how did this happen?
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You know, like I am, let's say like,
you know, running, um, like driving
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in, in traffic or like, you know,
with the car, that's usually something
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also that first, when it's a new thing
to you, you have to activate your
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cognitive side to actually remember,
like, you know, how do you drive a car?
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Like, especially if it has like,
you know, shifts and everything.
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Like, that's very cumbersome and,
like, it takes a lot of energy.
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So we try to save this cognitive side
and not use it for the most of the time.
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We try to always, like, use it as, like,
you know, little as possible and then
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pass the task to the automated side.
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So, for example, with a car, we
have probably all been in there,
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like, you know, seen or felt the
situation where you're driving.
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You go through, like, uh, some kind
of traffic lights or something.
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You pass them, but you wonder after
that, like, was it even green?
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Like, what was the color of that?
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Like, you know, it's just your
automation basically handled
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that task and your cognitive side
never had to even like wake up.
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but yeah, it also kind of like talks
about how there is a lot of these like
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biases basically like built into us.
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Like, you know, of course we have all
kinds of like confirmation biases.
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We don't want to, or like, it's
easier for us to try to look for
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information that kind of like, you know.
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Confirms our expectations, our thoughts,
our wants than to actually see it like,
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you know, very realistically, all the
actual research and, you know, the
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things also pointing how we are wrong.
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yeah, I think you'd just love our
episode with Volker Herminghaus
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from a couple of weeks back.
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It's about consciousness and free will,
and if we have it or not, and like,
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where does it come from, and how we
can't really It can't really be our
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conscious side of the brain that has the
free will, because it has a delay of 0.
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3 seconds.
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So when you think you're making
a decision, the decision has
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already been made for you by your
brain, like, before you Before
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you consciously make the decision.
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So where is the decision?
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And how could the decision even be made?
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Like, wouldn't the synapses have to go
back and forth in time in order for there
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to actually be such a thing as free will?
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So yeah, very interesting topics indeed.
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Yeah.
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And that's the thing, like, the
free will part is also something
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that the book touches a bit.
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So.
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Like, it's exactly saying how these two
different parts of your brain, it's not
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exactly like parts, but let's just say
like, you know, two different personas
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in your head or something like that, the
automated and the cognitive one, they have
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totally different opinions about things.
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Like, I mean, I'm just kind of like
putting it out in this way, but like,
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for example, you know, your cognitive
side is probably the one who's
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actually thinking of like, okay, I
should go ahead and start working out.
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And, you know, like, I should eat better
or, or whatever, but it's like, you know,
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that's cognitive side is not that strong.
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It's not that active all the time.
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And majority of the time you go with the
automation and the automation is lazy.
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Like, I mean, it's.
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Yeah.
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It also just goes, you know, doesn't
want to go to a gym and doesn't
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just want to order some burgers.
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It's kind of two, two totally different
personas that are fighting inside
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your head, like, you know, for like,
and wanting totally different things.
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Yeah, this is so cool that you brought
this up, because this is actually
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A part of a chapter for a new book
I'm writing at the time, and the
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chapter is called Mind Over Matter.
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And the first thing that comes to
mind, before diving into that, is the
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impression of a Donald Duck cartoon,
where there's an angel Donald Duck and
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a devil Donald Duck above his head.
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And they're having an
argument of what to do.
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And I guess the angel side is
the more thinking side, and the
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devil side is just the impulse.
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Side that wants to do, wants
to have that extra cigarette
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and not do the push ups, right?
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So, so, and I think that's why that works
so well, because it's a perfect metaphor.
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It feels like a dichotomy, it
feels like two different sides of
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yourself, but, but you're both Dr.
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Jekyll and Mr.
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Hyde, you aren't just one aspect of
it, And the thing, the thing with the
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There's so much here, we've had some
great conversations on the show about
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how, to which extent the mind creates
reality and stuff, I don't know if you
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heard that, but like about you choose to
focus on becomes your actual subjective
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reality, like the example Jeff Boothgay
was, if you're in a crowded room and
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someone even whispers your name, your
attention instantly focuses on that.
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Uh, voice that just whispered your
name and all of the other parts
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of the conversation going on in
the party is just white noise, but
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you hear this one signal perfectly
clear because you're focused on it.
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So focus and attention creates reality
to a much larger extent than we expect.
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And what is objective reality?
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It's just where our memes collide and
where, where these consciousnesses Crash
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into one another, and if you take, like,
theory of relativity into that, and,
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you know, time space, and time being
relative to, uh, to what speed you
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have throughout, through the universe
and stuff, Uh, and it's everything
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being points on a 4D plane, and, like,
is linear time even a real thing?
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and then bake in some quantum mechanics
and you know, these, um, particles that
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have entanglement through space and
through time, uh, could particles, they at
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least suspect that they're, uh, um, from
what I know that they're entangled through
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time and also, and not only through space.
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So could that have something
to do with free will?
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That, that a thought can
actually go back in time?
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I don't know, but I, I love the subject.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I have an opinion.
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Like, yeah, I should definitely,
uh, like read more about this
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kind of, you know, topics,
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I can recommend a couple
of things after the show.
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yeah, I, uh, I mentioned that, um, you
know, space time and the, one of the
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points on your list here is Einstein.
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So what did, what did you want
to talk about about Einstein?
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Oh, okay.
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So, I mean, we have to go a little bit
back, maybe like now a lot, like we'll
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get to Einstein maybe a bit, a bit later
now, but I kind of wanted to challenge
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you guys because I heard that you, you
guys are kind of like both, um, you know,
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like pro kids and pro family, right?
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Um, yeah, we both have
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Yeah, yeah,
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families.
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Yeah.
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yeah, like, and in our last episode,
we basically, like, you know, very much
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agreed on the foolishness of, well, like,
you know, a lot of the religious stuff
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and everything, and I thought that maybe,
like, this is something that we can
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actually, like, debate a little bit about,
and this is just, like, really, really
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difficult topic to talk about, because
everyone who's going to say or would say
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the things that I'm going to be saying
can be seen as, you know, like, very
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asshole, because My point is basically
like, you know, that I, I'm not saying
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that people should not have families or
girlfriends or like, you know, a very,
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like, you know, nice kids and everything.
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I just think that for a majority of
the cases, it's just a stupid accident.
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And it's just that we have exactly that
weird confirmation bias where it's so
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difficult for us to kind of, you know,
like, admit when we've done something,
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let's say, not that smart, and we're
kind of stuck with our, like, you
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know, stupid, like, maybe automation,
uh, like, you know, based decisions.
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So, like, I'm not saying that, you
know, all kids that are out there, all
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families are made by, like, you know,
like, that is a result of foolishness.
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No, I'm just saying that just like,
for example, you know, for beavers,
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it's like a hard coded thing for
them to go ahead and build dams.
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For example, it's not something that their
mom teaches them or something like that.
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No, you can take a baby beaver out of the,
you know, like the mom beaver right away.
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When it gets born,
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out to the mom.
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like a house.
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out to the mom.
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Beaver's, beaver, you mean?
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Yeah.
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like, you know, the beaver will start
actually like, you know, gathering up
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some like toys, uh, like kid toys and
starting to put them in the hallways.
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And even the beaver itself
seems to be confused of like,
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why the fuck am I doing this?
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But like, in the same way that the beaver
has these, you know, like maybe hard
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coded things, uh, features in its genes.
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We, of course, as humans, just like with
beavers too, we have basically the, like
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the hard coded feature of reproduction.
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So like, yeah.
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Any life form out there, like, either
they will have to become immortal or be
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immortal, or they will have to learn to
reproduce, or they will cease to exist.
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So, you know, like, for us, for example,
wanting to have a family or wanting to
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have kids, it's not really a cognitively
rational decision for most of the cases.
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It's, it's just like automation.
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And at least from my experience,
going with your automation and your
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emotions into these kind of like big
decisions, like, for example, like,
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you know, forming a relationship or
having kids that has probably caused
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like more problems than actual benefits.
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Uh, like, so what I'm trying to say
here is that people should, should
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kind of be aware of these hard coded.
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Like, you know, features, uh, in our
genes, basically, to try to reproduce, but
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how it's just another emotion out there.
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Yeah, maybe I'll, I'll
start with that one.
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Uh, we'll get into like, probably
like deeper parts of this.
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Exactly.
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there's a word for that before, for
the morality of not having kids.
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Like the, there's a, uh, a philosophical
ethical case for, for not reproducing.
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And it's from this really kind of
dark and depressing school of thought
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where, where, where you admit to
yourself and everyone else that life
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is more suffering than it is happiness.
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Basically, and that everyone's, everyone's
final days will probably suck more
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than, it'll probably not be worth it.
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That's the, as far as I understand
it, this is the premise of that
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worldview, that the pain of
death is definitely not worth it.
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Um.
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Especially not if you take this
relativistic time into the equation
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and everything exists everywhere
at once and stuff, so, yeah.
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Then again, uh, free will and
stuff, and we can't stop it
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because it was an instinct.
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And, uh, we're, we're stuck with it so
we better do the best we can with it.
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Uh, I don't know, uh I mean,
I think these things are worth
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thinking about, definitely.
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And, uh, I think there's certainly,
I think every parent thinks that
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there's a certain aspect of kids
being the, just a sexual hangover.
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And maybe, like when you get,
when you get the kid, first kid.
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You very quickly realize that, holy shit,
I've made a move that I can't take back.
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I've done something that is very,
very, much more irreversible than any
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other decision I've made in my life.
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Like, like everything else you can just
apologize for and try to forget about.
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Like, but this one is hard to reverse.
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But that's also, also the beauty of it.
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You know, because, like, um, it,
to me it makes Uh, well, it's, it
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doesn't make life more meaningful.
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That's bullshit.
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But it does, uh, it does give, uh,
it, it does give you a, uh, person
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to give the existential baton too,
so that you don't have to worry about
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it anymore, if you know what I mean.
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uh, and, and that feels good.
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Like, okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I haven't figured it out yet.
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You do it.
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Good luck, bye.
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That's sort of And I think that if people
were more honest, they would admit that,
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that it's a lot about, you know, giving
the existential baton to the next on this,
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well said.
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And just to also clarify, like, I
don't have, you know, like this very,
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like what you mentioned, you know, the
very grim view of, uh, like, you know,
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world that you should not create kids
because the life is more of suffering.
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I mean, that part, I agree.
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Life is probably like,
you know, in some way.
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uh, like the more you're cognitively
awake, the more you probably will be
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suffering, you know, in the, in the world.
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Uh, but like, I don't think like even
I, for myself, like currently, you
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know, like I am single and I don't have
kids, but I have nothing against it.
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And I actually still am like, you know,
hopeful, romantic, and that I hope that
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I actually can find someone like, you
know, a good girl that I can, you know,
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like be with, and maybe even have kids
and actually be happy and all of that.
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The likelihood of it is relatively, let's
say like pretty low, like just being
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a bitcorner itself, kind of like, you
know, let's say like makes the amount
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of possible girls who can actually like,
you know, accept you as you are, uh,
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like it makes it like smaller, um, plus
all the other stuff, of course, but,
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uh, like in general, also like exactly,
you know, what you said about like
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passing the baton to the next person.
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That's the thing.
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Why?
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I'm kind of a little bit disappointed
whenever I see, you know, people
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saying that the, the main point
of life is to have kids, I mean,
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could be, but then we get into the
questions of like, okay, how many, why?
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And, you know, like, there's, there's
a lot of things that usually are not
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really explainable properly, but like,
especially for Bitcoiners and for like,
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you know, if we want to be really like
fully responsible of our own lives, you
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Like, creating kids just because you're
kind of like hoping that maybe he will
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figure something out and do something
great is just very, like, weirdly kind
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of like trying to pass the responsibility
to others, like, if you really see the
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things, you know, how they are and how bad
they are, like, Creating, like not working
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on them yourself, like kind of going with
these like, you know, animal instinct
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urges to go ahead and like, you know, fuck
whatever moves or, you know, like things
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like that and get trapped, basically,
like, if you have been like that, you
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know, a bit kind of like lazy, you're,
you're kind of stuck with that life.
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And it's going to be harder for you
to actually, you know, do something,
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let's say exactly like Einstein.
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Like, why I put it out there in the notes
is basically exactly that, like, if you
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think that you are one of the smartest
people out there, or like, especially,
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um, like the smartest ones, but even if
you think that you are more, like, smarter
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than the average, like, why would you
ever go ahead and basically, like, waste
434
00:28:15,612 --> 00:28:21,952
your time in playing house Basically,
like, you know, that's what we're doing.
435
00:28:21,952 --> 00:28:25,812
Like girls used to play with Barbies
and, you know, like do their teapots,
436
00:28:25,882 --> 00:28:27,422
uh, things and everything like that.
437
00:28:27,862 --> 00:28:31,232
The guys used to actually, you know,
play with like action figures and
438
00:28:31,232 --> 00:28:34,742
try to do something heroic, like, you
know, go into a war or, or whatever.
439
00:28:35,192 --> 00:28:39,672
Like now, whenever we grow up, even men,
like, you know, kind of tends to go ahead
440
00:28:39,672 --> 00:28:44,512
and either explain to themselves or just,
they prefer to just, you know, play house.
441
00:28:44,957 --> 00:28:49,037
Be nicely chilling in the sofa and
watching Netflix instead of doing
442
00:28:49,037 --> 00:28:53,257
something really difficult, something
crazy hard, just like Einstein or
443
00:28:53,487 --> 00:28:55,227
like Nikolai Tesla or whatever.
444
00:28:55,707 --> 00:28:59,697
Like they, they went and kind of
resisted the urge to just go ahead
445
00:28:59,697 --> 00:29:05,687
and be stuck with a girl to be able to
actually, you know, produce something
446
00:29:05,717 --> 00:29:06,987
really meaningful to their life.
447
00:29:07,367 --> 00:29:10,887
Um, because everything that you do
is just a trade off with your time.
448
00:29:10,887 --> 00:29:13,497
Like all the relationships,
it's just a time sink.
449
00:29:13,962 --> 00:29:20,222
And if you do choose or end up by accident
into these time sinks, you will never be
450
00:29:20,222 --> 00:29:25,462
able to, like, you know, really control
your time and put out as much effort as
451
00:29:25,492 --> 00:29:29,972
maybe would have been possible if you
would not taken these automated actions.
452
00:29:46,152 --> 00:29:51,392
Uh, that is very seldom talked about
because it's such a taboo, uh, topic, uh,
453
00:29:51,412 --> 00:29:57,092
but a by product of women getting into
the workforce, uh, because when, what
454
00:29:57,122 --> 00:30:01,682
we really did when, when, uh, you know,
letting women into the workforce and
455
00:30:01,682 --> 00:30:07,632
letting them have, uh, voting rights and
whatever, is that we, we, uh, Switched
456
00:30:07,642 --> 00:30:15,062
out the alleged patriarch, the, the,
the family father, or the alleged, um,
457
00:30:16,162 --> 00:30:19,622
patriarch is not the right word because
that has kind of a positive connotation
458
00:30:19,622 --> 00:30:27,778
in my ears, but like, uh, the alleged,
um, Oppressor, the Patriarch Dad, with
459
00:30:27,788 --> 00:30:34,036
the real oppressor, the Patriarch State,
which is oppressing everyone by stealing
460
00:30:34,036 --> 00:30:37,566
their stuff and making them stuck in
these hamster's wheels and having to
461
00:30:37,696 --> 00:30:42,696
do their chores over and over again and
everyone becomes, as you say, they're
462
00:30:42,696 --> 00:30:44,436
too tired to do anything after work day.
463
00:30:45,271 --> 00:30:49,191
They just sit on the sofa and watch
Netflix and do, have no ambition with
464
00:30:49,191 --> 00:30:54,431
their lives and so I, I think it's
somewhat connected to, just fiat in,
465
00:30:54,461 --> 00:31:01,371
in general that we've, um, we're, we're
not incentivized to, to, to pursue
466
00:31:01,421 --> 00:31:06,641
higher goals and the more socialistic
our societies become and the more you
467
00:31:06,641 --> 00:31:11,986
get punished for being, uh, bold, I
mean, you get what you pay for if you
468
00:31:11,986 --> 00:31:17,696
pay social, if you have a big social
security network, you're paying people
469
00:31:17,696 --> 00:31:19,466
to sit on the sofa and watch Netflix.
470
00:31:19,956 --> 00:31:24,716
So, so I think there's a lot to
that, that we're, we're incentivizing
471
00:31:24,736 --> 00:31:29,206
people to, to not be ambitious, to
not be brave, and to not be heroic.
472
00:31:29,226 --> 00:31:33,186
Uh, we're incentivizing people
to sit home and watch Netflix, as
473
00:31:33,186 --> 00:31:35,056
you say, and eat cheese doodles.
474
00:31:35,759 --> 00:31:35,939
Yep.
475
00:31:36,379 --> 00:31:40,459
I mean, I think the thing is
exactly like, you know, I mean, it's
476
00:31:40,489 --> 00:31:44,039
understandable why people went into a
lot of these different relationships,
477
00:31:44,059 --> 00:31:45,629
especially like back, you know.
478
00:31:46,064 --> 00:31:50,734
Back, you know, like, uh, some years ago
when we didn't have, like, you know, all
479
00:31:50,734 --> 00:31:54,584
of these weird services that government
nowadays provides and everything.
480
00:31:54,974 --> 00:31:59,774
So I do understand that there's,
there's certain reasons why people
481
00:31:59,784 --> 00:32:03,934
would have, like, you know, out of need
or, or everything, like, you know, to.
482
00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:07,449
To kind of like, you know, marry or
have kids, you know, to just have some
483
00:32:07,449 --> 00:32:12,219
people to take care of the land or the
farm or, or whatever, but like, for,
484
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:17,499
like, nowadays for majority of people,
it seems like women don't need men and
485
00:32:17,499 --> 00:32:19,609
men don't need women, like, there is.
486
00:32:20,709 --> 00:32:25,009
Only like, you know, the, the weird
animal urge that we still have for the
487
00:32:25,009 --> 00:32:28,239
opposite sex, maybe it's some weird
hormones or whatever, but like, let's
488
00:32:28,239 --> 00:32:31,729
say, you know, like, previously, if it
was for men, like, you know, that to have,
489
00:32:31,729 --> 00:32:35,969
like, you know, someone nice, uh, like,
you know, walking around, maybe doing
490
00:32:35,969 --> 00:32:40,369
some food or like, you know, cleaning
the house or something like that, no,
491
00:32:40,369 --> 00:32:42,069
you can just hire people now for that.
492
00:32:42,219 --> 00:32:45,159
Like, you don't need an actual
girlfriend to get, you know,
493
00:32:45,169 --> 00:32:46,329
those kind of things done.
494
00:32:46,654 --> 00:32:49,634
And even for sex, like there's a
lot of services, like you don't
495
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:51,294
need girl for the sex part too.
496
00:32:51,514 --> 00:32:55,974
It's now just about this, like, you
know, story that we have been told to
497
00:32:55,994 --> 00:32:58,054
that we should be in a relationship.
498
00:32:58,054 --> 00:33:02,084
And there is, you know, some perfect
girl out there or like a guy or whatever.
499
00:33:02,394 --> 00:33:09,344
I just feel like, you know, it's more
understandable nowadays if people
500
00:33:10,544 --> 00:33:14,834
don't go into relationships because
there's no need for it anymore.
501
00:33:16,774 --> 00:33:18,264
Or like, other than the reproduction part,
502
00:33:18,707 --> 00:33:22,897
but I have a slightly different viewpoint
here, and that is that we're, we're
503
00:33:24,082 --> 00:33:27,922
I'm tempted to think that we don't
need a relationship and that we don't
504
00:33:27,922 --> 00:33:30,852
need spouses, but it's not really true.
505
00:33:30,852 --> 00:33:35,322
It's just very convenient for the
people in charge to have us think
506
00:33:35,362 --> 00:33:38,135
that these things are not necessary.
507
00:33:38,465 --> 00:33:42,845
But like, to become a sovereign
individual, truly sovereign individual,
508
00:33:42,845 --> 00:33:46,915
I really think you do need a wife
to take care of the kids and do the
509
00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:51,125
dishes and all of this boring stuff
so you can provide for the family.
510
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,450
And those are, like, these are very
traditional values, but I think that
511
00:33:55,450 --> 00:33:59,870
there's, there's something to this that
got lost along the way, I mean, I, I think
512
00:33:59,950 --> 00:34:03,240
people should be allowed to do whatever
they want, and if women want to have a
513
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,130
career instead of having kids, like, go
ahead, I have nothing against that, but
514
00:34:07,130 --> 00:34:12,485
I think with that whole package Now that
every girl is, like, expected to have a
515
00:34:12,485 --> 00:34:18,870
career on top of being a mother, and guys
are expected to do motherly chores, uh,
516
00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:23,360
like, that's something got lost along
the way there, and we sort of live in
517
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,890
this Fake reality that we think we can
live without one another, but you, if
518
00:34:27,890 --> 00:34:31,920
you want to be a sovereign, and if you
want to be able to support yourself and
519
00:34:32,230 --> 00:34:37,470
stuff, have a citadel and a farm and
stuff, you probably couldn't do that
520
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:42,180
without the proper wife, and vice versa.
521
00:34:43,185 --> 00:34:44,785
Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
522
00:34:44,785 --> 00:34:49,665
Like, I, like I said, I would personally
love to have exactly like, you know, a
523
00:34:49,665 --> 00:34:53,655
good girl and have, you know, like, a
nice little ranch or something like that.
524
00:34:54,215 --> 00:35:00,235
But at least, like, I totally get why.
525
00:35:00,865 --> 00:35:05,135
It's kind of like difficult for even
like, you know, women to go on with that
526
00:35:05,185 --> 00:35:10,515
deal nowadays, like, you know, this is
something that it's like, it's maybe like
527
00:35:10,515 --> 00:35:16,571
a little bit weird, but I wonder how a
lot of the women, especially before this
528
00:35:16,571 --> 00:35:23,241
modern medicine and, you know, science,
how the hell, or like, it's definitely
529
00:35:23,241 --> 00:35:29,286
not like conscious decision to go ahead
and like make kids Uh, other than for
530
00:35:29,286 --> 00:35:32,566
like, you know, benefiting from them
basically, like in some way, but like,
531
00:35:32,566 --> 00:35:36,776
just imagine how weird it was and how
risky it was back then for a woman to
532
00:35:36,786 --> 00:35:41,146
actually like put out like a watermelon
sized thingy out of their pussy.
533
00:35:41,406 --> 00:35:45,296
Like it's a huge risk,
like the baby might die.
534
00:35:45,446 --> 00:35:46,256
You might die.
535
00:35:46,496 --> 00:35:46,736
Like.
536
00:35:47,076 --> 00:35:50,276
There's a huge amount of like,
you know, problems in there.
537
00:35:50,606 --> 00:35:54,836
And basically, like, I wonder why
didn't women kind of like, see
538
00:35:54,846 --> 00:35:58,566
men as some kind of like virus
injectors, basically, at that point,
539
00:35:58,916 --> 00:36:01,206
like, it was it was crazy, weird.
540
00:36:01,206 --> 00:36:04,886
And like, I don't think that
it's like a conscious decision.
541
00:36:05,106 --> 00:36:07,176
It's like the automation, the urge.
542
00:36:07,581 --> 00:36:10,971
If you want to reproduce that is
hard coded in us that kind of like
543
00:36:10,981 --> 00:36:14,731
overcomes even the conscious side
of like, this does not make sense.
544
00:36:14,751 --> 00:36:15,661
It has huge risks.
545
00:36:16,051 --> 00:36:17,861
They still go ahead and do it.
546
00:36:18,061 --> 00:36:21,141
And they say they want to do it because
I think that it's the automation
547
00:36:21,141 --> 00:36:25,041
side, because cognitively, like,
if you think about it, it's just.
548
00:36:25,881 --> 00:36:26,751
Makes no sense.
549
00:36:26,751 --> 00:36:30,241
It overcomes even your self
preservation, like, you know, urge.
550
00:36:30,501 --> 00:36:34,241
You don't want to go ahead and take
such a big risk for yourself and, like,
551
00:36:34,271 --> 00:36:35,661
put out the watermelon out of there.
552
00:36:36,132 --> 00:36:40,782
It's not the shape of a watermelon,
just so you know, it comes out.
553
00:36:40,952 --> 00:36:41,292
yeah.
554
00:36:42,052 --> 00:36:43,322
Okay, thanks for clarifying.
555
00:36:44,036 --> 00:36:48,966
Still, it's a good metaphor, like, and,
that sort of depends on your point of
556
00:36:48,966 --> 00:36:51,986
view as well, it is, not having kids.
557
00:36:52,701 --> 00:36:55,691
Means that you're, you're
the end of your bloodline.
558
00:36:55,971 --> 00:36:59,921
Like that's, so it is
existentially finished when you go.
559
00:37:00,891 --> 00:37:04,601
And you can say, yeah, but I don't care
because I'll be dead and I won't care
560
00:37:04,601 --> 00:37:10,901
about, I won't give a fuck about shit
when I'm dead, like, uh, but still,
561
00:37:11,561 --> 00:37:16,651
there is an existential, like I said,
the existential baton, uh, that's, that's
562
00:37:17,251 --> 00:37:19,546
one Way to rationalize it, I guess.
563
00:37:20,186 --> 00:37:25,166
Uh, I mean, because if you think that
life is more suffering than enjoyment,
564
00:37:25,206 --> 00:37:29,546
why not just go jump off a bridge
tomorrow, like, and some people do!
565
00:37:29,786 --> 00:37:35,365
Uh, But I think there's definitely
something to, you know, this, the,
566
00:37:35,655 --> 00:37:40,295
the family unit became a family unit
for a reason, because that was how
567
00:37:40,295 --> 00:37:44,865
you survived, especially when women
started to get pregnant around 17 or
568
00:37:44,865 --> 00:37:50,205
18 years of age, and then they produced
kids until they were 50, like, uh.
569
00:37:51,085 --> 00:37:55,695
It's not that way anymore, and I've heard
a lot of ideas about how, you know, these
570
00:37:55,945 --> 00:38:01,285
second and third order effects of the pill
and what it has done to us, because in
571
00:38:01,285 --> 00:38:06,125
a way, like, modern women are the first
cyborgs that are really, that we've really
572
00:38:06,135 --> 00:38:10,945
changed biologically, uh, at their core of
what they, what they used to be and what
573
00:38:10,945 --> 00:38:17,425
they are now, they're a different thing,
and yeah, I think there's, those downsides
574
00:38:17,455 --> 00:38:20,405
to that are not talked about enough,
575
00:38:22,972 --> 00:38:29,362
something here, I think the other
side to this here, uh, it's a little
576
00:38:29,362 --> 00:38:33,352
bit fun when something like this
happens, when I get to say these words.
577
00:38:33,702 --> 00:38:35,282
I disagree with Knut here.
578
00:38:37,837 --> 00:38:41,437
And, and, uh, it's, it's, it's fun
because I've, I've started to, uh,
579
00:38:41,447 --> 00:38:46,637
explore some ideas off campus, off
the Freedom Footprint show campus, uh,
580
00:38:46,827 --> 00:38:50,377
especially these days I'm doing, I'm
doing a series on Jordan Peterson's Maps
581
00:38:50,377 --> 00:38:56,807
of Meaning on, uh, Robert Breedlove's
show, uh, and, and we, we, we actually
582
00:38:56,807 --> 00:39:00,207
did a rip last night, and so this
stuff is kind of fresh in my mind.
583
00:39:00,697 --> 00:39:03,737
The, I, I think kids do give.
584
00:39:04,287 --> 00:39:06,957
Meaning inherently to people.
585
00:39:07,307 --> 00:39:12,957
It's just not in this, in this
tangible sense, I suppose, but it
586
00:39:12,957 --> 00:39:15,797
really does hit the programming.
587
00:39:16,117 --> 00:39:19,887
And so I think we're maybe coming at this
from different sides here and eventually
588
00:39:19,887 --> 00:39:27,057
saying the same thing, but the cognitive
layers that we're talking about is sort
589
00:39:27,057 --> 00:39:30,917
of built up in this layered substrate.
590
00:39:31,277 --> 00:39:32,497
We as individuals.
591
00:39:33,297 --> 00:39:39,217
are the product of thousands, hundreds of
thousands, millions of years of evolution.
592
00:39:39,547 --> 00:39:43,957
Let's just cap it at when we've been
homo sapiens, maybe a couple hundred
593
00:39:43,957 --> 00:39:45,877
thousand years, something like that.
594
00:39:46,337 --> 00:39:52,067
And everything that has come up to that
point in terms of behavior, in terms of
595
00:39:53,227 --> 00:39:59,807
the, the stories that we've told along
the way to, to, to pass lessons down.
596
00:40:00,117 --> 00:40:01,217
Those are all.
597
00:40:01,607 --> 00:40:03,997
Substrates of our personalities.
598
00:40:04,277 --> 00:40:12,317
All three of us have, to a certain
extent, the Judeo Christian philosophy
599
00:40:12,547 --> 00:40:17,197
underpinning us, again, to a certain
extent, but we, all three of us also have
600
00:40:17,197 --> 00:40:22,187
different, different backgrounds before
our ancestors became Christianized,
601
00:40:22,207 --> 00:40:26,757
for example, just to, just to make
that point, but we've got the Judeo
602
00:40:26,757 --> 00:40:33,327
Christian, the Western humanist, and,
perspective from being men from, from
603
00:40:33,337 --> 00:40:36,317
Europe or from Europe adjacent countries.
604
00:40:36,687 --> 00:40:41,057
And then there are more things
that individuate us, right?
605
00:40:41,357 --> 00:40:45,277
But the lower level programming in
terms of everything that goes on
606
00:40:45,437 --> 00:40:50,997
under the hood, that's pretty much
shared, universal human shared.
607
00:40:51,577 --> 00:40:54,817
And I think that the
reproduction is, is part of this.
608
00:40:54,817 --> 00:41:00,337
And it, in a lot of ways, it's, it's I
think having kids is always difficult,
609
00:41:00,337 --> 00:41:03,737
right, because there's a lot of
responsibility to it, at least if you're
610
00:41:03,737 --> 00:41:10,347
taking it seriously, which I think you
should, but over time, the responsibility
611
00:41:10,587 --> 00:41:16,937
becomes too much to bear without something
like that, where it's, where it's, it
612
00:41:16,937 --> 00:41:19,037
just becomes the, the right thing to do.
613
00:41:19,487 --> 00:41:22,987
Cross to bear, for lack of a
better metaphor on top of my head.
614
00:41:23,387 --> 00:41:29,907
It's, you take yourself to a
certain life status, right?
615
00:41:29,937 --> 00:41:33,837
And then having kids becomes the
next natural outlet for that.
616
00:41:34,707 --> 00:41:39,877
Because I think there's another case where
you have people who just, who just have
617
00:41:39,877 --> 00:41:43,577
kids, get in a relationship, have kids
and, uh, oops, make a mistake and they
618
00:41:43,577 --> 00:41:46,847
don't go into it intentionally and that's
a completely different story, right?
619
00:41:47,257 --> 00:41:52,447
That's, that's probably what
The majority of, of humanity was
620
00:41:52,447 --> 00:41:54,087
like for a very long time, right?
621
00:41:54,967 --> 00:41:59,607
Intentionally going into it with the
idea of having kids and, and, yeah,
622
00:41:59,607 --> 00:42:04,817
going on to the next generation, I
think that is absolutely meaningful
623
00:42:04,847 --> 00:42:09,087
in and of itself in the, in the sense
of that you're going to channel your
624
00:42:09,267 --> 00:42:13,107
energy directly into a new person.
625
00:42:13,542 --> 00:42:20,012
And maybe there's some, there's a, an
aspect of trying to reduce some past
626
00:42:20,012 --> 00:42:25,291
mistakes, uh, trying to, help them
have a better life than, than you
627
00:42:25,291 --> 00:42:29,171
had, a better start of it, and, and
then we get into that there are these
628
00:42:29,181 --> 00:42:35,246
psychological fallacies of the, the,
Great men create good times, which
629
00:42:35,256 --> 00:42:39,646
creates bad men, which creates bad
times, kind of thing, the generational
630
00:42:39,656 --> 00:42:43,786
cycle where if you get too good of a
start in life, maybe you're not going
631
00:42:43,786 --> 00:42:48,636
to necessarily achieve much of anything,
which, yeah, is sort of difficult to
632
00:42:48,646 --> 00:42:53,466
grapple with as a new parent, but not
like I'm giving my kid a good start.
633
00:42:53,546 --> 00:42:59,406
Um, Yeah, the, the, the most,
uh, luxurious upbringing, so
634
00:42:59,406 --> 00:43:00,696
to say, but, you know, not bad.
635
00:43:01,516 --> 00:43:04,936
This is rambling a little bit, but I,
I think the, the, the point is that
636
00:43:05,146 --> 00:43:12,336
we've got this deep programming and
this deep cultural substrate that.
637
00:43:13,196 --> 00:43:19,066
Is there, it's just not something that
is scientifically extractable, exactly.
638
00:43:19,246 --> 00:43:24,036
This isn't something empirical, it's just,
it's just a substrate of things that, that
639
00:43:24,046 --> 00:43:27,636
have, have built upon us as, as humans.
640
00:43:27,656 --> 00:43:34,086
And I, I think having kids and, and, uh,
going along with that, it's, we've been
641
00:43:34,086 --> 00:43:40,271
telling stories about it's, The importance
of having kids and moving on into the next
642
00:43:40,271 --> 00:43:47,241
generation for probably as long as humans
have existed, and that's built in, and we
643
00:43:47,241 --> 00:43:48,961
are programmed to get meaning from that.
644
00:43:49,441 --> 00:43:54,331
So I think this is sort of saying
the same thing a little bit from a
645
00:43:54,331 --> 00:43:57,091
different perspective, but I think
we get meaning from it because
646
00:43:57,091 --> 00:43:58,321
it's been with us for so long.
647
00:43:58,729 --> 00:44:02,759
Yeah, just a disclaimer here, Luke,
uh, before we get into the rest of
648
00:44:02,759 --> 00:44:07,509
the conversation, and that is that,
like, I don't claim opinions on
649
00:44:07,509 --> 00:44:12,209
this, so, so, like, I flesh out these
different theories that people have,
650
00:44:12,259 --> 00:44:16,749
but, yeah, just to say, I definitely
went into getting kids deliberately.
651
00:44:16,939 --> 00:44:17,409
I did.
652
00:44:18,159 --> 00:44:22,339
I don't think it was as deliberate on
my wife's part, I think it was more
653
00:44:22,339 --> 00:44:26,409
of an oops moment for her, definitely
more oopsie than it was for me.
654
00:44:27,019 --> 00:44:28,829
Because for me it was planned.
655
00:44:29,615 --> 00:44:30,965
So that's, that's the thing, guys.
656
00:44:30,975 --> 00:44:35,575
So, like, I really appreciate, you
know, like, people being able to tell
657
00:44:35,575 --> 00:44:39,665
honestly about, or like, talk honestly
about these things, because I do also
658
00:44:39,665 --> 00:44:43,825
understand, you know, the biases that
we have, uh, to kind of like, you know,
659
00:44:43,835 --> 00:44:49,785
to defend the actions that we have made,
um, and well, okay, this might sound a
660
00:44:49,785 --> 00:44:54,605
bit harsh and like, you know, this might
be offensive for some people, but like,
661
00:44:54,605 --> 00:45:00,545
I'm not comparing dogs and kids, but I'm
just saying that, Like, I had a dog, um,
662
00:45:00,565 --> 00:45:05,955
for like 10 years, and I mean, it came
true because, like, the girlfriend that I
663
00:45:05,965 --> 00:45:07,695
had back then, she wanted to have a dog.
664
00:45:08,135 --> 00:45:13,755
We got it, but like, after a few years,
we separated, and the dog was basically
665
00:45:13,755 --> 00:45:18,340
like, Well, I took care of the dog,
uh, for the last six, seven years.
666
00:45:18,690 --> 00:45:24,580
And the thing is, it always prevented
me from like traveling quite as much as
667
00:45:24,580 --> 00:45:28,970
I would want to, like it did basically
restrict me from doing things, but when
668
00:45:28,970 --> 00:45:33,910
I had the dog, I kind of like very well
explained to myself how this is worth it,
669
00:45:33,910 --> 00:45:35,520
and this is okay, and this is what I want.
670
00:45:35,530 --> 00:45:37,920
I want to stay with the dog,
like, you know, or like, you know,
671
00:45:37,950 --> 00:45:39,400
take care of it or, or whatever.
672
00:45:40,380 --> 00:45:43,110
That's what I feel like, you
know, when we actually have.
673
00:45:43,505 --> 00:45:47,705
That thing to take care of, we have
this bias where we need to go ahead and
674
00:45:47,705 --> 00:45:49,565
explain that that was still worth it.
675
00:45:49,865 --> 00:45:54,085
But now that my dog died, like, you
know, six months ago, I honestly, like,
676
00:45:54,795 --> 00:45:57,885
I cannot say that I would do anything
differently because I don't know any
677
00:45:57,885 --> 00:45:59,775
of the other options or, or anything.
678
00:45:59,915 --> 00:46:04,355
Uh, and it was really awesome time,
um, to know, you know, grow, grow a
679
00:46:04,355 --> 00:46:07,075
dog as a single guy, uh, and all that.
680
00:46:08,795 --> 00:46:11,355
I've also exactly kind
of like noticed that.
681
00:46:11,980 --> 00:46:17,480
Now I have more of the original freedom
that I actually really, really wanted,
682
00:46:18,090 --> 00:46:24,460
and I kind of explained to myself, like,
not doing a lot of things because of the
683
00:46:24,460 --> 00:46:30,310
dog, but I was like, able to kind of like,
explain to myself why that is still okay.
684
00:46:30,930 --> 00:46:34,220
Now, I know that I would
not take another dog.
685
00:46:34,690 --> 00:46:37,180
I would not take or
make the same decision.
686
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,670
I cannot say that I
would revert the old one.
687
00:46:40,390 --> 00:46:44,950
But at least, cognitively, when I'm awake,
when I don't, when I have an option to
688
00:46:44,950 --> 00:46:49,480
get a dog, or not get a dog, when I have
an option to get a girl, or get a kid,
689
00:46:49,750 --> 00:46:54,090
or don't, like, I think that's when I
can actually think most, like, you know,
690
00:46:54,090 --> 00:46:59,320
with unbiased, or like, with least of
the biases, I can, I can think straight.
691
00:46:59,620 --> 00:47:03,350
Whenever I have already one of those
things, it's really hard to go back.
692
00:47:03,940 --> 00:47:08,220
So what I'm trying to say also is
that people should be careful and not
693
00:47:08,950 --> 00:47:13,690
kind of like panic for the feeling
of being lonely or you know, like
694
00:47:13,690 --> 00:47:17,680
try to try to just run after, you
know, like all of these emotions,
695
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,390
like wanting to have sex or whatever.
696
00:47:19,690 --> 00:47:26,590
Like people should kind of accept
that these are just emotions.
697
00:47:26,650 --> 00:47:31,510
You might want to go with them, but you
might also be doing the biggest mistakes
698
00:47:31,510 --> 00:47:34,360
of your life if you're not really thinking
with your head, but just with your dick.
699
00:47:35,745 --> 00:47:36,225
Yeah.
700
00:47:38,215 --> 00:47:45,030
I think an aspect of this that we haven't
talked about is, is, like, This is my
701
00:47:45,330 --> 00:47:50,130
subjective experience, but before I had
kids, like, I didn't have kids until
702
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:55,694
quite late in life, like, I was 35 when
I had my first kid, and before that,
703
00:47:55,704 --> 00:48:02,204
I was bored, and I had long periods
of time where I wasn't doing stuff.
704
00:48:02,654 --> 00:48:03,964
That never happens anymore.
705
00:48:03,974 --> 00:48:10,764
So, like, even though I have less time on
my hands, I literally have way fewer hours
706
00:48:10,784 --> 00:48:18,314
per day that I decide whatever I want to
do and then do that, like, uninterrupted.
707
00:48:19,684 --> 00:48:25,264
Those Moments are much more precious
to me now, so I value them more, and
708
00:48:25,264 --> 00:48:30,054
therefore I get more shit done, even
though I have less time to do shit.
709
00:48:30,734 --> 00:48:35,154
Because I think there's a, there's a
thing there, because, like, uh, having
710
00:48:35,154 --> 00:48:39,634
a kid and being in that situation, like,
the dog is, you are comparing a dog
711
00:48:39,634 --> 00:48:41,014
to a kid, you understand that, right?
712
00:48:41,304 --> 00:48:46,449
But, but, like, it's not the same thing,
but it, it alludes to what A life with
713
00:48:46,449 --> 00:48:49,929
a kid is, like, you have to take care
of the kid a lot more than you have to
714
00:48:49,929 --> 00:48:52,459
take care of the dog, just, uh, heads up.
715
00:48:52,820 --> 00:49:00,470
Uh, well, yeah, maybe, maybe it's hard
to realize how scarce a human time
716
00:49:00,470 --> 00:49:02,830
is, and how short a human lifetime is.
717
00:49:03,470 --> 00:49:07,190
Uh, before you have a kid, like,
uh, it's, uh, it's a real reminder
718
00:49:07,190 --> 00:49:10,920
that, uh, life is not a rehearsal go.
719
00:49:11,210 --> 00:49:12,990
Like, do you have one shot at this?
720
00:49:13,848 --> 00:49:16,598
And also, like, you know,
whatever makes people happy.
721
00:49:16,628 --> 00:49:17,918
I think that's okay.
722
00:49:18,198 --> 00:49:22,768
But I also feel like there's a
great, or like, at least to me,
723
00:49:22,838 --> 00:49:26,438
how I see exactly like Einstein
and Tesla or people like that.
724
00:49:26,848 --> 00:49:30,098
And what I kind of would want to exactly
put out right now, like, you know, for
725
00:49:30,098 --> 00:49:33,468
all the listeners is basically that,
like, if you think that you are really
726
00:49:33,528 --> 00:49:37,748
like a smart or like, you know, as an
As productive or like, you know, as
727
00:49:37,768 --> 00:49:42,228
meaningful of a person as someone like,
you know, Einstein or Nikolai Tesla, I
728
00:49:42,228 --> 00:49:46,358
kind of like, you know, I kind of would
hope that those persons would actually
729
00:49:46,358 --> 00:49:50,448
just focus on work and I feel bad for them
because they might not get all of that
730
00:49:50,458 --> 00:49:52,528
happiness that family and kids bring them.
731
00:49:52,928 --> 00:49:56,558
But I really like, you know, tip my
hat for those guys who are, you know,
732
00:49:56,558 --> 00:50:01,428
also kind of resisting the urge and
kind of like, you know, being able to.
733
00:50:01,873 --> 00:50:06,593
To stand the suffering, like, you know,
the loneliness or whatever, and, you know,
734
00:50:06,593 --> 00:50:13,403
like, just doing these greater things,
uh, you know, that actually produces
735
00:50:13,463 --> 00:50:15,033
or pushes, like, humanity forward.
736
00:50:15,143 --> 00:50:19,963
Of course, family people can definitely do
a lot of those, but I'm just saying, like,
737
00:50:20,263 --> 00:50:26,383
it would have been a real shame if, you
know, Einstein or these kind of guys would
738
00:50:26,383 --> 00:50:28,593
have been stuck, you know, playing house.
739
00:50:29,908 --> 00:50:33,368
We would have lost or like,
you know, a lot of good ideas.
740
00:50:34,318 --> 00:50:37,188
do you think his lack of a sex drive
has something to do with his name?
741
00:50:38,668 --> 00:50:40,928
Uh, yeah, it could be, it could be.
742
00:50:41,408 --> 00:50:41,758
Yeah.
743
00:50:41,758 --> 00:50:42,038
I
744
00:50:42,308 --> 00:50:48,008
Uh, uh, I don't, I don't know much
about the sex life of Einstein, uh, but,
745
00:50:48,178 --> 00:50:51,328
I heard something like, you know,
I mean, they did have apparently
746
00:50:51,328 --> 00:50:55,518
kids, but they kind of like abandoned
the girl and the kid exactly to be
747
00:50:55,518 --> 00:50:56,898
able to just focus on their work.
748
00:50:56,908 --> 00:50:59,498
And of course they probably
got a lot of shit from it.
749
00:51:00,198 --> 00:51:04,148
And also Nikolai Tesla, for example,
like he was, he was apparently like.
750
00:51:04,708 --> 00:51:06,788
According to himself, married to a pigeon.
751
00:51:07,438 --> 00:51:11,958
So, I mean, these are not, let's
say the most sane guys, but what
752
00:51:11,958 --> 00:51:16,428
I'm saying is that I appreciate them
willing to go into a total craziness to
753
00:51:16,428 --> 00:51:18,298
produce something great for humanity,
754
00:51:19,099 --> 00:51:25,399
Yeah, but there, there are examples
of, uh Like, uh, Luke Dasher for,
755
00:51:25,399 --> 00:51:27,289
for instance, in, in Bitcoin.
756
00:51:27,349 --> 00:51:30,859
He has eight kids and he does
great things all of the time.
757
00:51:30,889 --> 00:51:32,594
Like , like,
758
00:51:32,699 --> 00:51:36,219
just imagine how much time or like
how much more productive Luke would
759
00:51:36,229 --> 00:51:38,999
be if he would not have to take
care of any of those eight kids.
760
00:51:39,649 --> 00:51:40,759
you don't know that.
761
00:51:41,199 --> 00:51:44,559
You don't know that he might have been,
you know, a method on the street if he
762
00:51:44,559 --> 00:51:48,869
hadn't had those eight kids, you know,
uh, like, yeah, apologies to Luke in
763
00:51:48,869 --> 00:51:53,279
advance here, but, uh, , it's just a
name that came on top of my head because
764
00:51:53,279 --> 00:51:54,584
of the eight kids, but, uh, you know.
765
00:51:55,699 --> 00:51:58,389
Or, uh, or Jimmy Song.
766
00:51:58,459 --> 00:52:00,099
He has seven kids, right?
767
00:52:00,289 --> 00:52:02,259
Uh, um, or, or something.
768
00:52:02,799 --> 00:52:05,599
They have a ton of kids, and
they seem to be very productive.
769
00:52:07,009 --> 00:52:09,789
Despite, or maybe because
of the kids, who knows?
770
00:52:10,754 --> 00:52:11,074
Yep.
771
00:52:11,654 --> 00:52:15,304
By the way, what do you guys think of,
like, you know, when people are saying
772
00:52:15,584 --> 00:52:20,304
that the point of life would be to
exactly like, you know, like have kids,
773
00:52:20,944 --> 00:52:25,944
like, what is then the number of kids
that you would want to have optimally?
774
00:52:26,334 --> 00:52:30,834
Like, because that's always something that
has wondered to me, like, is it just one?
775
00:52:30,844 --> 00:52:35,094
If you want to, you know, like, store
your gene, basically, like, the more the
776
00:52:35,134 --> 00:52:40,444
merrier, then again, like, previously,
it wasn't possible to just go ahead
777
00:52:40,444 --> 00:52:42,024
and create, like, thousands of kids.
778
00:52:42,574 --> 00:52:45,474
Or maybe like Genghis Khan or
someone else actually did that.
779
00:52:45,474 --> 00:52:46,984
I don't remember how many did he have.
780
00:52:48,034 --> 00:52:49,794
The point is now it is possible.
781
00:52:49,874 --> 00:52:53,644
You can actually create like,
you know, in a weird like lab
782
00:52:53,654 --> 00:52:54,844
or like, you know, a test tube.
783
00:52:54,854 --> 00:52:57,694
You can clone yourself as many
kids as you can afford to.
784
00:52:58,094 --> 00:53:02,494
So is now the actual, like, the goal
basically to create as many kids as
785
00:53:02,554 --> 00:53:06,064
you can afford to raise reasonably?
786
00:53:06,404 --> 00:53:09,614
Or, or like, is it just passing the genes?
787
00:53:10,899 --> 00:53:12,509
You know, like, what's
your thoughts on this?
788
00:53:12,519 --> 00:53:17,099
I, I think even if you're Elon Musk,
you wouldn't afford to be Genghis Khan.
789
00:53:17,489 --> 00:53:23,289
Because that's like 25 percent of the
Mongolian population has, you know,
790
00:53:23,289 --> 00:53:25,869
connections to the genes of Genghis Khan.
791
00:53:25,909 --> 00:53:26,399
So like.
792
00:53:26,834 --> 00:53:31,914
Being a total asshole and pillaging
and raping for your entire life and
793
00:53:31,964 --> 00:53:37,671
raping as much as possible is a very
effective method if you want your genes
794
00:53:37,671 --> 00:53:39,371
to pass on to the next generation.
795
00:53:39,431 --> 00:53:41,771
Like, of course it is.
796
00:53:41,981 --> 00:53:43,001
We're clipping that.
797
00:53:43,161 --> 00:53:44,121
And we're clipping that.
798
00:53:44,371 --> 00:53:44,611
Yes.
799
00:53:48,771 --> 00:53:49,521
Why not?
800
00:53:49,961 --> 00:53:51,441
Great advice from Knut.
801
00:53:51,441 --> 00:53:55,521
Well, it's not advice, it's an
observation, uh, but I'm coming to the
802
00:53:55,521 --> 00:54:00,281
point that, uh, I don't think that's
necessarily a good life choice, though,
803
00:54:00,311 --> 00:54:04,841
even though it does secure your, your
gene, your bloodline for a long time.
804
00:54:05,331 --> 00:54:12,336
I think, like, why, why do people have
to have, uh finding meaning in life,
805
00:54:12,596 --> 00:54:16,128
uh, what, what do you even answer?
806
00:54:16,228 --> 00:54:17,668
Like, is there a meaning?
807
00:54:17,678 --> 00:54:18,638
Is there not a meaning?
808
00:54:18,848 --> 00:54:21,938
Well, sometimes it feels like
there's meaning, but some things
809
00:54:21,948 --> 00:54:24,118
feel meaningful and others less so.
810
00:54:24,168 --> 00:54:32,048
But, you know, I mean, just reproducing,
it's not meaning in itself, is it?
811
00:54:32,648 --> 00:54:35,958
I think just going with the flow
and doing whatever feels good is
812
00:54:36,128 --> 00:54:37,728
quite good advice for most people.
813
00:54:38,178 --> 00:54:39,578
Uh, I don't know.
814
00:54:39,848 --> 00:54:40,958
I don't know the meaning of life.
815
00:54:40,958 --> 00:54:41,968
What's the meaning of life, Luke?
816
00:54:43,098 --> 00:54:49,448
Voluntarily taking up the challenge to
go into the unknown, tame the chaos, and
817
00:54:49,458 --> 00:54:51,558
bring back the treasure to the community.
818
00:54:52,193 --> 00:54:55,233
Yes, but this is the Freedom Footprint
show, not the What is Money show.
819
00:54:56,282 --> 00:54:56,762
Yeah,
820
00:54:56,807 --> 00:54:57,127
Yes.
821
00:54:57,797 --> 00:55:01,697
I know you rehearsed for that and
everything, but this is, this is our show.
822
00:55:02,077 --> 00:55:04,077
You'd have to do that with Rob, you know.
823
00:55:04,282 --> 00:55:09,062
I mean, there's a reason I've talked
about that book now for like eight
824
00:55:09,062 --> 00:55:11,432
hours or something with Rob and, uh,
825
00:55:11,867 --> 00:55:12,797
But do you buy that?
826
00:55:13,727 --> 00:55:14,557
Do you buy that?
827
00:55:14,737 --> 00:55:16,207
That that's the meaning of your life?
828
00:55:16,407 --> 00:55:17,667
Or everyone's life?
829
00:55:18,842 --> 00:55:22,742
Well, okay, so the thing about that
book, the thing about Maps of Meaning
830
00:55:22,742 --> 00:55:30,882
that, that really dug into this for me
was, was that it explained how we think
831
00:55:30,892 --> 00:55:37,642
because the, the thing about it is it,
the book is dense and, and ridiculously
832
00:55:37,652 --> 00:55:45,982
meandering repetitive, but the, it, it
builds upon point upon point and shows.
833
00:55:46,517 --> 00:55:47,447
He shows his work.
834
00:55:47,477 --> 00:55:49,367
That's, that's really the key here.
835
00:55:49,867 --> 00:55:56,727
So what happens is that the, the
book builds up from here are the
836
00:55:56,727 --> 00:55:58,617
building blocks of how people think.
837
00:55:58,622 --> 00:56:01,287
There's, there's an aspect
of neurological psychology.
838
00:56:01,287 --> 00:56:03,777
There's an aspect of how this
stuff works in day to day.
839
00:56:03,782 --> 00:56:06,327
And then the bulk of the book
is explanation through stories.
840
00:56:07,047 --> 00:56:11,357
And the thesis of the book is basically
that we transmit through stories,
841
00:56:11,447 --> 00:56:17,847
through mythology, mythology basically
just being stories that are so deep in
842
00:56:17,867 --> 00:56:24,192
our history that we've lost where they
actually came from, but Through these
843
00:56:24,582 --> 00:56:32,892
stories, we tell lessons that match
what our psychology and physiology mean.
844
00:56:34,652 --> 00:56:38,992
If you want a fun, we talk for a good
20 30 minutes in one episode about the
845
00:56:38,992 --> 00:56:41,892
meaning of the word meaning, and it's
a real circle, Jarek, and it's lots of
846
00:56:41,892 --> 00:56:50,060
fun, but, yeah, but the point is that
psychologically, we're, we are conditioned
847
00:56:50,140 --> 00:56:57,600
to want to minimize the chaos of the
world around us and put the world into
848
00:56:57,610 --> 00:57:00,490
order in, in the most simple terms.
849
00:57:01,390 --> 00:57:01,740
And so
850
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:02,900
We as in men?
851
00:57:03,662 --> 00:57:08,652
humanity, but it's, it's, there's
biological differences, of course.
852
00:57:09,202 --> 00:57:14,642
Uh, men do end up being sort of the,
the default in these, these stories.
853
00:57:15,832 --> 00:57:16,652
Sorry, ladies.
854
00:57:16,652 --> 00:57:24,242
The, the, there are different stories
tailored specifically for women, at
855
00:57:24,242 --> 00:57:31,162
least in terms of the, the, the thing
to do to, uh, um, well, for, for her to
856
00:57:31,162 --> 00:57:33,752
get her own, uh, form of, of meaning.
857
00:57:33,772 --> 00:57:37,482
The Beauty of the Beast story
is the, is the archetypical, the
858
00:57:37,482 --> 00:57:41,862
archetypal story for, for women, at
least according to Jordan Peterson.
859
00:57:43,322 --> 00:57:47,732
Yes, we as in men, we as in
Humans, something like that.
860
00:57:48,062 --> 00:57:54,582
The bravest thing is to be able to go out
into the unknown and bring something back.
861
00:57:54,672 --> 00:57:58,112
That's what millennia of
stories are telling us.
862
00:57:58,282 --> 00:58:03,782
And then there are layers to
it because it's not a simple,
863
00:58:04,692 --> 00:58:06,612
there's a simple hero story.
864
00:58:06,632 --> 00:58:11,312
Go kill the dragon, rescue
the virgin in the castle.
865
00:58:11,632 --> 00:58:14,582
Bring her back and then suddenly
everything is good in the kingdom
866
00:58:14,582 --> 00:58:17,282
again because you killed the
dragon, something like that.
867
00:58:17,472 --> 00:58:21,412
Very simple, straightforward, but
that's not how it maps to reality.
868
00:58:21,412 --> 00:58:26,867
And so there are Other stories, other
forms of, of looking at this stuff and,
869
00:58:27,227 --> 00:58:35,557
and the thesis is to just take up the
challenge and that's meaning to me is
870
00:58:35,557 --> 00:58:43,177
to find the challenge to take up and go
at it wholeheartedly and go at it with
871
00:58:43,177 --> 00:58:50,747
some humility the wisdom of generations
before me might have figured some things
872
00:58:50,747 --> 00:58:55,607
out but ultimately there comes the
point where you as the individual will.
873
00:58:56,312 --> 00:59:01,872
The individual, I'll emphasize that,
has to do something novel and innovative
874
00:59:02,322 --> 00:59:07,272
in that moment, as big or as small as
that might be, and that's the impact.
875
00:59:07,572 --> 00:59:08,282
That's the meaning.
876
00:59:09,427 --> 00:59:14,267
And then bring that back, and you can make
a good life, life is less psychologically
877
00:59:14,827 --> 00:59:22,137
difficult, putting life into more order,
something like that, and the, the coolest
878
00:59:22,137 --> 00:59:27,317
part about it is the, the, the person,
the thing you should put at the top of
879
00:59:27,317 --> 00:59:30,497
the hierarchy, the, the thing that you
should put at the top of the hierarchy is
880
00:59:30,507 --> 00:59:39,762
the, the hero that pays attention That's
what, what for millennia is the message.
881
00:59:40,182 --> 00:59:45,542
The hero that is able to pay attention,
figure out the world, and figure out the
882
00:59:45,552 --> 00:59:48,902
things that are plaguing the society.
883
00:59:49,872 --> 00:59:52,022
That's the person that should be
put at the top of the hierarchy
884
00:59:52,022 --> 00:59:53,232
because they know what they're doing.
885
00:59:53,442 --> 00:59:54,442
They're the most competent.
886
00:59:54,472 --> 00:59:55,152
Competence.
887
00:59:56,202 --> 01:00:00,802
The, the book maps on perfectly with
praxeology, with everything that's
888
01:00:00,802 --> 01:00:02,242
going on in the Bitcoin community.
889
01:00:02,662 --> 01:00:03,212
I love it.
890
01:00:03,552 --> 01:00:09,072
And it's, it's why it's the most It's
the most influential book for me, and
891
01:00:09,732 --> 01:00:15,872
why I am talking about it with Rob, why
I'd encourage people to watch Jordan
892
01:00:15,872 --> 01:00:22,042
Peterson's lectures on the topic, if
reading the book in its whole 500 page
893
01:00:22,042 --> 01:00:28,717
density isn't the most enjoyable thing,
I got something out of it, and that's it.
894
01:00:29,237 --> 01:00:33,567
That's the meaning I got out of it was to
take up the challenge and I went from a
895
01:00:33,567 --> 01:00:39,937
nihilistic early 20 something that had no
idea what to do with myself to yeah, now,
896
01:00:39,967 --> 01:00:47,257
now I've got purpose and I'm well on my
way to fulfilling the story of my life.
897
01:00:47,647 --> 01:00:48,977
Got a kid, it's pretty cool.
898
01:00:49,627 --> 01:00:51,987
I don't think any of that would
have happened if I hadn't found
899
01:00:51,987 --> 01:00:56,287
this book and figured out how to
do something with myself without
900
01:00:56,287 --> 01:00:57,527
finding religion, by the way.
901
01:00:58,047 --> 01:00:59,127
So that's also cool.
902
01:00:59,647 --> 01:01:01,077
That is a beautiful rant, Luke.
903
01:01:01,507 --> 01:01:02,547
You put a tear to my eye.
904
01:01:02,777 --> 01:01:06,407
And, uh, the story is
very similar to mine.
905
01:01:06,447 --> 01:01:11,897
It's just that I've never, like,
uh, well, never is a strong word.
906
01:01:12,787 --> 01:01:17,687
I guess I, you know, every person
sees themselves as the protagonist
907
01:01:17,687 --> 01:01:19,697
of their, the movie of their story.
908
01:01:19,737 --> 01:01:24,667
So you try to, if you try to emulate
the hero's journey thing, I think
909
01:01:24,667 --> 01:01:26,227
we all do that to some extent.
910
01:01:27,067 --> 01:01:30,987
And to me, the, the like, uh, there's
the call to adventure when you
911
01:01:30,987 --> 01:01:36,057
find Bitcoin and there's the, the
real adventure when you, uh, you're
912
01:01:36,197 --> 01:01:38,017
supposed to run into trouble also.
913
01:01:38,057 --> 01:01:42,987
And I guess, you know, getting fed up
with my old job was getting into trouble
914
01:01:42,987 --> 01:01:49,757
and seeing inflation, you know, outpacing
an eventual raise in salary and then
915
01:01:49,767 --> 01:01:53,457
just jumping off the cliff and, uh, fuck
this, I'm doing something else instead.
916
01:01:53,927 --> 01:01:58,217
I guess that's like the, the hero's
journey part of at least the latter.
917
01:01:58,542 --> 01:01:59,612
Stages of my life.
918
01:01:59,612 --> 01:02:02,102
I don't think people
have one hero's journey.
919
01:02:02,102 --> 01:02:05,362
I think they have many during
a lifetime, or at least can.
920
01:02:06,522 --> 01:02:08,782
So what's your story, Rafa, there?
921
01:02:08,782 --> 01:02:11,122
Like, have you found the
meaning of your life?
922
01:02:11,122 --> 01:02:14,732
Are you living in a hero's
journey type thing, you think?
923
01:02:15,822 --> 01:02:23,492
mean, kind of, yeah, I do think I
have like a good meaning for life.
924
01:02:23,962 --> 01:02:29,952
It's just that I kind of question it
and I feel like things are way too easy.
925
01:02:30,332 --> 01:02:35,512
Uh, like, you know, like, let's say
like this, I had this thought in my
926
01:02:35,512 --> 01:02:39,102
mind, like, let's say 10 years ago, that
would be like really awesome to just,
927
01:02:39,102 --> 01:02:42,182
you know, like work on Bitcoin things
and not really have to have, you know,
928
01:02:42,182 --> 01:02:43,912
a fiat job or, or things like that.
929
01:02:44,472 --> 01:02:45,932
Well, I, I got that.
930
01:02:46,452 --> 01:02:49,642
Then I also realized when I like,
you know, got a little bit deeper
931
01:02:49,642 --> 01:02:53,892
into Bitcoin stuff that I really
want to, you know, focus on doing
932
01:02:53,902 --> 01:02:55,492
something really, really meaningful.
933
01:02:55,502 --> 01:02:59,742
Or I mean, that's what I had like
always since the child, like as a,
934
01:02:59,802 --> 01:03:03,582
like when I was a kid, like I wanted to
do something actually meaningful, not
935
01:03:03,582 --> 01:03:08,372
something just a random, you know, like
a basic fiat job or something like that.
936
01:03:08,912 --> 01:03:12,442
And I, I feel like working on
Bitcoin and especially like
937
01:03:12,462 --> 01:03:14,142
working on Bitcoin privacy.
938
01:03:14,752 --> 01:03:20,382
is probably one of the most urgent
things that we should be working on
939
01:03:20,872 --> 01:03:24,502
because, I mean, even though there's
a lot of very cool technology, a lot
940
01:03:24,502 --> 01:03:29,452
of like, you know, biohacking or like
AI or like, you know, a lot of these
941
01:03:29,452 --> 01:03:34,172
cool things are out there, but I feel
like if we don't fix the money first.
942
01:03:34,857 --> 01:03:40,027
All of these other cool, you know,
things or technologies will just be like
943
01:03:40,027 --> 01:03:43,867
corrupted through government or like,
you know, like we have a shitty money,
944
01:03:44,377 --> 01:03:47,797
uh, like at least, you know, the fiat,
and we're trying to make a better one.
945
01:03:48,247 --> 01:03:50,837
Bitcoin is the best option,
but it also has this like
946
01:03:50,837 --> 01:03:52,897
huge problem with its privacy.
947
01:03:52,897 --> 01:03:57,037
Like, if we would not improve
Bitcoin privacy, or if these privacy
948
01:03:57,037 --> 01:03:58,337
tools would not get adoption.
949
01:03:58,782 --> 01:04:03,262
I feel like, you know, even Bitcoin would
just become basically the biggest global
950
01:04:03,272 --> 01:04:05,412
financial surveillance system ever.
951
01:04:05,822 --> 01:04:10,562
Like, it is, it is much, much
worse than any CBDC out there
952
01:04:10,562 --> 01:04:11,772
that people are talking about.
953
01:04:12,122 --> 01:04:15,482
Like, this is not just, you know, like
governments being able to see exactly
954
01:04:15,482 --> 01:04:17,132
how much you own and how do you transact.
955
01:04:17,402 --> 01:04:20,582
They might not be able to stop it,
but they will penalize you if they
956
01:04:20,582 --> 01:04:22,152
can see exactly what's going on.
957
01:04:22,567 --> 01:04:26,977
Now, with CBDCs, at least your neighbor
is not able to watch you or, you know,
958
01:04:26,977 --> 01:04:28,457
like know exactly what you're doing.
959
01:04:29,217 --> 01:04:34,317
With Bitcoin, if we don't improve its
privacy, we are really, really screwed.
960
01:04:34,617 --> 01:04:38,307
So, in that sense, I do find a
lot of meaning working on, on
961
01:04:38,307 --> 01:04:40,197
this space and these things.
962
01:04:40,912 --> 01:04:46,368
Uh, but I feel like it's also, it's
too easy, like, in the sense that,
963
01:04:47,378 --> 01:04:50,898
uh, maybe I just have these like, you
know, weird old stories and movies
964
01:04:50,898 --> 01:04:52,578
kind of like imprinted into my mind.
965
01:04:52,608 --> 01:04:56,068
Like, for example, you know,
the movie Troy, uh, and like
966
01:04:56,068 --> 01:04:58,138
the story about, about Achilles.
967
01:04:58,943 --> 01:05:02,663
Um, like that was a very interesting
story where basically like in the
968
01:05:02,663 --> 01:05:07,393
movie itself, like it's, you know, that
this character, this Machilis, he had
969
01:05:07,483 --> 01:05:11,193
a total, like, you know, a choice in
life to go ahead and, you know, like
970
01:05:11,193 --> 01:05:16,553
have kids, have like, you know, that
he would basically be guaranteed to
971
01:05:16,553 --> 01:05:19,933
have, you know, a good wife and a lot
of kids who will love them and he will
972
01:05:19,943 --> 01:05:22,413
have a very happy and fulfilling life.
973
01:05:22,963 --> 01:05:24,713
But there was also the other option.
974
01:05:25,123 --> 01:05:31,133
Where he would not go ahead and have any
of that like family stuff, but actually
975
01:05:31,143 --> 01:05:36,793
go into like, you know, the Troy war and
try to write his name into the history
976
01:05:36,793 --> 01:05:38,583
books for like thousands of years.
977
01:05:39,083 --> 01:05:43,223
I think those kind of goals of like
people actually wanting to, you know,
978
01:05:43,223 --> 01:05:48,203
like basically be remembered or do
something useful that will be then
979
01:05:48,213 --> 01:05:49,743
remembered for thousands of years.
980
01:05:50,403 --> 01:05:51,673
That's like, you know.
981
01:05:52,263 --> 01:05:55,853
Proper goals, like that's what we should
be all looking for, you know, like,
982
01:05:56,806 --> 01:06:01,476
Yeah, but if it's too easy and you're
already accomplished, like, building
983
01:06:01,486 --> 01:06:06,956
better Bitcoin privacy tools, uh
There's nothing stopping you from
984
01:06:06,956 --> 01:06:10,586
getting the family after you're done
with all the heroic stuff, right?
985
01:06:11,251 --> 01:06:12,381
yeah, yeah, sure.
986
01:06:12,391 --> 01:06:15,791
And I mean, I'm not saying that, like,
fixing Bitcoin privacy is too easy,
987
01:06:15,791 --> 01:06:19,891
but it's kind of like, it was too easy
to find a very meaningful thing to do.
988
01:06:20,181 --> 01:06:26,721
And now I'm kind of like, in a, in a
search of like, even bigger meaning.
989
01:06:27,056 --> 01:06:29,416
Even yeah, something more.
990
01:06:30,006 --> 01:06:31,406
So do you think that ever ends?
991
01:06:31,446 --> 01:06:34,646
Even if you find something bigger and
more important to work on, whatever
992
01:06:34,646 --> 01:06:36,546
that is, world peace or whatever.
993
01:06:36,976 --> 01:06:41,386
Uh, I guess you could say Bitcoin privacy
is world peace, but it takes a while.
994
01:06:41,726 --> 01:06:46,696
But, uh, like, don't you think
there's always a bigger fist to catch?
995
01:06:46,716 --> 01:06:51,036
And like, you never get satisfied
from just fulfilling I know that,
996
01:06:51,066 --> 01:06:55,041
that's From, from experience,
whenever I set up a goal and I achieve
997
01:06:55,041 --> 01:06:58,191
something, I, I want the next thing.
998
01:06:58,191 --> 01:06:59,211
I want to up my game.
999
01:06:59,628 --> 01:07:01,938
Yeah, I mean, I totally agree with you.
1000
01:07:01,938 --> 01:07:06,048
Like, want seems to be also like something
that is just hard coded in us, because
1001
01:07:06,068 --> 01:07:10,828
if we would kind of like, end up not
wanting things, it's kind of like,
1002
01:07:10,828 --> 01:07:13,018
you know, there is no need for action.
1003
01:07:13,513 --> 01:07:20,543
And I think we would kind of like lose
the passion or like, you know, to live.
1004
01:07:21,103 --> 01:07:25,053
Uh, so I think wants are one of the things
that kind of like keeps us going and I
1005
01:07:25,083 --> 01:07:26,643
think they will grow up all the time.
1006
01:07:27,003 --> 01:07:32,243
But I also have noticed exactly like
that setting yourself too low of goals
1007
01:07:32,263 --> 01:07:34,633
or goals that you can actually achieve.
1008
01:07:35,113 --> 01:07:40,083
It's very, very dangerous, at least,
at least for a while, because like,
1009
01:07:40,303 --> 01:07:45,493
if you set yourself too easy of goals,
and you actually achieve them, you will
1010
01:07:45,493 --> 01:07:51,093
be totally like, you know, unhappy,
or you will at least be left with no
1011
01:07:51,093 --> 01:07:53,173
other plans or no other things to do.
1012
01:07:53,173 --> 01:07:56,003
And you kind of have to
find new meaning again.
1013
01:07:56,468 --> 01:07:59,708
So that's why I feel like, you know,
shooting for the stars, like, you
1014
01:07:59,708 --> 01:08:03,328
know, what Elon Musk is wanting to do,
like, okay, let's go and put people
1015
01:08:03,328 --> 01:08:07,908
into Mars, like something this crazy
will actually keep him, you know,
1016
01:08:07,908 --> 01:08:10,078
like driven for a long, long time.
1017
01:08:10,598 --> 01:08:13,448
Like, don't set too easy
goals for yourself, basically.
1018
01:08:14,063 --> 01:08:17,723
Don't you think that's a problem,
though, with, like, the whole internet
1019
01:08:17,723 --> 01:08:22,633
generation that has grown up with, you
know, it's like the, uh, IDN Fight Club,
1020
01:08:22,643 --> 01:08:28,491
that everyone grew up, raised by their
mothers and, uh, uh, wanting to be, were
1021
01:08:28,491 --> 01:08:32,301
told by the media that they would be
rock stars and movie stars and whatnot.
1022
01:08:32,796 --> 01:08:38,658
And none of that comes true later in life,
so like, what I'm trying to say is that,
1023
01:08:38,738 --> 01:08:44,788
uh, isn't it a problem that people can't
be, if everyone had the goal of, you know,
1024
01:08:44,788 --> 01:08:50,118
building a rocket that takes us to Mars or
something, like, no one would be satisfied
1025
01:08:50,118 --> 01:08:52,548
with just being a baker, or a garbage man.
1026
01:08:52,788 --> 01:08:55,218
Like, don't we need, like,
people for everything?
1027
01:08:55,713 --> 01:08:59,823
And people taking pride in
the, in easy small jobs like,
1028
01:09:00,194 --> 01:09:05,104
I mean, I think that all of the jobs
are in some sense really important,
1029
01:09:05,124 --> 01:09:08,994
and it's good that there is people
who are kind of like satisfied.
1030
01:09:09,464 --> 01:09:13,454
With that, but it's like, it's just
good, basically, from my perspective,
1031
01:09:14,484 --> 01:09:17,874
like, I mean, it's, it's might be good
for them to like, you know, they might
1032
01:09:17,874 --> 01:09:20,064
be happy and then it's totally okay.
1033
01:09:20,674 --> 01:09:26,144
But at least, like, to me, it feels
a little bit bad to say that I'm
1034
01:09:26,144 --> 01:09:30,134
happy that other people are okay
with, like, less because it just
1035
01:09:30,134 --> 01:09:31,964
seems to be a thing that benefits me.
1036
01:09:32,364 --> 01:09:37,014
I kind of feel like, you know, from
totally, uh, from totally unbiased
1037
01:09:37,064 --> 01:09:40,224
point of view, I kind of feel like
we should be endorsing everyone to
1038
01:09:40,224 --> 01:09:44,704
be as great as they can and shoot
for the stars, like, you know, to try
1039
01:09:44,704 --> 01:09:46,204
to do something really meaningful.
1040
01:09:46,204 --> 01:09:49,684
I know that that's not something
that could actually happen and that
1041
01:09:49,684 --> 01:09:53,904
would, you know, result into a lot of
chaos in the world, but at least for,
1042
01:09:53,984 --> 01:09:58,294
you know, the sovereign individuals,
the people who really want to try to
1043
01:09:58,294 --> 01:10:00,084
make a big difference in the world.
1044
01:10:00,999 --> 01:10:05,429
I think that's just a beautiful thing that
they are not like, you know, happy with.
1045
01:10:06,154 --> 01:10:09,564
With normal stuff that they are
actually pushing for something
1046
01:10:09,564 --> 01:10:11,264
like even better and greater.
1047
01:10:12,429 --> 01:10:12,729
Yeah.
1048
01:10:12,729 --> 01:10:17,939
Which is why it's, why it's so
reinvigorating or to go to a Bitcoin
1049
01:10:17,939 --> 01:10:20,699
conference and meet all these people
that are actually trying to do that.
1050
01:10:20,759 --> 01:10:22,439
That's like fantastic.
1051
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:23,789
Like, look at these people.
1052
01:10:23,794 --> 01:10:29,619
They, they're not caring what other
people tell them they can and cannot do.
1053
01:10:29,619 --> 01:10:33,409
They're just, they just do
stuff and build a better world.
1054
01:10:33,589 --> 01:10:34,864
Uh, yeah, I think it's beautiful.
1055
01:10:35,427 --> 01:10:40,137
Yeah, I mean, ambition itself, like,
you know, it's always so nice to be able
1056
01:10:40,137 --> 01:10:44,117
to like, you know, see in Bitcoin and
like, you know, these kind of sovereign
1057
01:10:44,117 --> 01:10:48,567
engineering space, for example, they
see so much like passionate people who
1058
01:10:48,567 --> 01:10:51,997
are not just, you know, looking into
like, okay, I want to go ahead and like
1059
01:10:51,997 --> 01:10:55,027
build a software that will generate me
like a few thousand dollars per month.
1060
01:10:55,027 --> 01:10:55,537
And that's it.
1061
01:10:55,537 --> 01:10:57,077
Like, That's what I'm looking for.
1062
01:10:57,077 --> 01:10:59,707
But there's a lot of people who
actually want to go ahead and
1063
01:10:59,777 --> 01:11:01,017
like change the whole world.
1064
01:11:01,347 --> 01:11:02,667
Like, you know, just like Bitcoiners.
1065
01:11:02,697 --> 01:11:05,517
But, you know, it's,
it's also talk is cheap.
1066
01:11:05,617 --> 01:11:08,097
A lot of people would want to go
ahead and say that they want to
1067
01:11:08,097 --> 01:11:09,057
go ahead and change the world.
1068
01:11:09,057 --> 01:11:11,167
But it exactly requires
a lot of commitment.
1069
01:11:11,507 --> 01:11:16,257
And it requires a lot of, um, like
refraining yourself from doing these
1070
01:11:16,257 --> 01:11:21,517
like weird, uh, automated actions that
will just basically be time sink traps.
1071
01:11:59,505 --> 01:12:03,755
so how do you, how do you focus, like,
how do you force yourself to focus
1072
01:12:03,755 --> 01:12:09,789
and how do you, like, make the work
ethic become a reality, like, some
1073
01:12:09,789 --> 01:12:12,769
trips, text, trip, trick, some tips?
1074
01:12:13,684 --> 01:12:17,164
Well, at least for me, like one of
the best things that, like, it's very
1075
01:12:17,164 --> 01:12:21,944
unintuitive, but I really love this
idea of like responsibility maximalism.
1076
01:12:23,004 --> 01:12:27,954
So, like, basically, for example, how I
see things in my life is that everything
1077
01:12:27,954 --> 01:12:31,004
that happens is totally my fault.
1078
01:12:31,774 --> 01:12:36,084
Like, I mean, not completely always,
and I don't blame myself for some of
1079
01:12:36,084 --> 01:12:39,514
the things that are happening, like,
I just practically kind of control
1080
01:12:39,514 --> 01:12:43,634
things, but the point is that I
don't blame anything that happens,
1081
01:12:43,654 --> 01:12:45,054
especially like negative things.
1082
01:12:45,364 --> 01:12:47,194
I do not blame them on others.
1083
01:12:47,884 --> 01:12:52,514
If there is, you know, like after
something bad happens, I always
1084
01:12:52,954 --> 01:12:57,094
kind of think about it myself, like,
could I have done something better?
1085
01:12:57,134 --> 01:13:00,274
Could I have, like, let's say,
if it's like another person not
1086
01:13:00,274 --> 01:13:03,534
showing up at the right time, like,
could I have informed him better?
1087
01:13:03,564 --> 01:13:06,934
Could I have, like, you know,
sent another message, reminder,
1088
01:13:06,934 --> 01:13:08,344
like, could I have done better?
1089
01:13:08,634 --> 01:13:10,044
And usually their answer is yes.
1090
01:13:10,619 --> 01:13:15,339
So blaming the other person is kind of
just a way to push the responsibility out
1091
01:13:15,339 --> 01:13:20,029
of yourself and that's, that's kind of
like, you know, if you start blaming other
1092
01:13:20,039 --> 01:13:25,329
things for, or like other people, or, you
know, for all of the negative things that
1093
01:13:25,339 --> 01:13:29,619
happen in your life, you will never really
want to go ahead and like, think about
1094
01:13:29,639 --> 01:13:31,959
how to fix them, how to improve yourself.
1095
01:13:32,354 --> 01:13:36,144
So taking full responsibility of all
of your actions, I feel like that's
1096
01:13:36,764 --> 01:13:41,394
one of the most important things that
at least I have learned, and like,
1097
01:13:41,414 --> 01:13:46,304
that's how that has made me to really
carefully consider in what kind of
1098
01:13:46,304 --> 01:13:48,074
a game do I want to put myself into.
1099
01:13:48,799 --> 01:13:52,259
Like, what kind of, like, do I even
want to start, for example, like, this
1100
01:13:52,569 --> 01:13:58,469
possible relationship, like, you know,
chess match, uh, you know, like, and
1101
01:13:58,509 --> 01:14:03,619
I, I try to exactly like, you know,
think of my actions before I do them
1102
01:14:03,879 --> 01:14:08,109
because of this responsibility idea.
1103
01:14:09,189 --> 01:14:10,999
I think that's a, that's a good one.
1104
01:14:11,939 --> 01:14:14,519
And in general, like, of
course, prioritization.
1105
01:14:15,039 --> 01:14:19,109
So, like I said, there's
a lot of very cool things.
1106
01:14:19,694 --> 01:14:23,624
But like, you have to kind of go through
really brutally, you know, like, write
1107
01:14:23,624 --> 01:14:27,874
them down, like, what are the really the
biggest or the most important things?
1108
01:14:27,874 --> 01:14:30,164
Like, you know, there's,
there's what is important.
1109
01:14:30,794 --> 01:14:33,004
And then there's the thing
of like, what is urgent?
1110
01:14:34,424 --> 01:14:37,904
And like the, you know, there's a
lot and a lot of important things.
1111
01:14:38,994 --> 01:14:45,704
But there's, like, the urgency is kind of
like the higher priority, like, we should
1112
01:14:45,704 --> 01:14:50,614
look into, like, you know, what is the
immediate action that we first have to fix
1113
01:14:50,684 --> 01:14:52,544
in order to be able to fix the rest of it.
1114
01:14:53,024 --> 01:14:57,304
And like I said, I feel like it's,
you know, money, but this same
1115
01:14:57,374 --> 01:15:01,054
idea of like how to prioritize, I
think, can be used in like companies
1116
01:15:01,054 --> 01:15:02,894
and in any other projects too.
1117
01:15:03,235 --> 01:15:06,415
It's beautiful, because it's sort of
the opposite of victimhood culture,
1118
01:15:06,615 --> 01:15:11,435
like, you're doing the exact opposite
of these virtue signaling victims.
1119
01:15:13,075 --> 01:15:17,705
where the game becomes who
we should pity the most, and
1120
01:15:18,850 --> 01:15:19,270
Yeah.
1121
01:15:19,355 --> 01:15:20,405
one who gets the reward.
1122
01:15:20,485 --> 01:15:21,135
Well, yeah.
1123
01:15:21,650 --> 01:15:24,620
Uh, way, way sounder way
to live life, I think.
1124
01:15:26,860 --> 01:15:27,190
Yep.
1125
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:33,160
And maybe, maybe also like one thing
that I would also say that kind of helps
1126
01:15:33,220 --> 01:15:35,510
a lot is to like, you know, meditate.
1127
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:40,910
And this is also like a very unpopular
opinion, but like, you know, there's a
1128
01:15:40,910 --> 01:15:46,160
lot of very, very weird and interesting
substances, you know, like out there
1129
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:50,330
in the world that we already know
that are actually like enhancing our
1130
01:15:50,330 --> 01:15:52,350
cognitive capabilities, for example.
1131
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,840
So, It's just that we're afraid of
the trade offs or, you know, like
1132
01:15:55,840 --> 01:16:00,810
the, the possible problems that those
might cause, but I mean, I don't want
1133
01:16:00,810 --> 01:16:04,770
to endorse it, but I'm just saying
like, people should not be afraid
1134
01:16:04,780 --> 01:16:06,320
of these kind of things either.
1135
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:09,460
Like, just like, for example, you
know, like, uh, back in the, like
1136
01:16:09,460 --> 01:16:12,060
hundreds of years ago or thousands
of years ago, like sailors.
1137
01:16:12,750 --> 01:16:17,700
Like, they had to really have, like,
huge fucking cojones to really go
1138
01:16:17,700 --> 01:16:21,690
ahead and, like, you know, go with
that weird kind of, like, you know,
1139
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:26,710
wooden boat all the way till, you
know, towards the infinite sea.
1140
01:16:27,190 --> 01:16:32,090
Like, you really had to be a little
bit crazy, but also, that's the thing
1141
01:16:32,090 --> 01:16:35,910
that was required to actually find
something so different, something
1142
01:16:35,910 --> 01:16:40,673
new to bring, like, a whole new
continent, basically, for humanity.
1143
01:16:40,973 --> 01:16:45,483
Like, that required some people to
actually take the risk of losing their
1144
01:16:45,483 --> 01:16:52,173
mind or their life in order to, you
know, be able to explore these areas
1145
01:16:52,193 --> 01:16:54,683
that we are not yet daring to explore.
1146
01:16:55,673 --> 01:17:00,473
So, yeah, that's also something
that I would put on the list.
1147
01:17:01,353 --> 01:17:05,903
Yeah, speaking of the list, I saw the,
the, the, the last point there is, is
1148
01:17:06,053 --> 01:17:10,313
human rights are a joke, which is, uh,
yeah, I'd like to pick your brain on
1149
01:17:10,313 --> 01:17:12,023
that because I have some ideas myself.
1150
01:17:12,823 --> 01:17:18,463
Yeah, I mean, in my opinion, like,
we already live in an anarchy.
1151
01:17:18,873 --> 01:17:23,523
It's just that most of people are really,
really bad at defending themselves.
1152
01:17:24,620 --> 01:17:27,980
you know, there is no human rights,
like whatever there is, you know, like a
1153
01:17:27,980 --> 01:17:32,255
lot of People saying every now and then
like, oh, right to privacy or whatever,
1154
01:17:32,505 --> 01:17:36,881
like, that's a very fiat concept to
do or to even say, you know, there
1155
01:17:36,881 --> 01:17:39,451
is no right for basically anything.
1156
01:17:39,511 --> 01:17:45,453
It's just especially like right for a
privacy, for example, like, to me, these
1157
01:17:45,453 --> 01:17:49,533
are just like weird concepts that are
kind of like, you know, relying on some
1158
01:17:49,773 --> 01:17:53,663
authority actually enforcing these,
but it's kind of like impossible if you
1159
01:17:53,683 --> 01:17:57,273
don't really like, you know, steal the
money out of a lot of people to be able
1160
01:17:57,273 --> 01:17:59,893
to fund that kind of a conglomerate.
1161
01:18:00,703 --> 01:18:06,613
So, to me, well, yeah, human rights
is just something that at least
1162
01:18:06,673 --> 01:18:12,673
Bitcoiners should not be, you know,
kind of appealing to in arguments.
1163
01:18:13,428 --> 01:18:18,198
Well, this is a great topic because,
like, um, you can differentiate between
1164
01:18:18,228 --> 01:18:22,378
positive rights and negative rights,
and positive rights are the ones that,
1165
01:18:22,658 --> 01:18:27,268
you know, free housing, free food,
whatever, um, healthcare, uh, all
1166
01:18:27,268 --> 01:18:32,388
of them require a violation of some
other person's negative right, which
1167
01:18:32,388 --> 01:18:37,528
is basically the, the only thing you
could argue for being a universal human
1168
01:18:37,528 --> 01:18:43,188
right that is true for all people at
all times is the right to be left alone.
1169
01:18:44,078 --> 01:18:48,347
Like, uh, basically the non
aggression principle, uh, because
1170
01:18:48,347 --> 01:18:51,297
it's the only one that can be
true for all people at all times.
1171
01:18:51,927 --> 01:18:58,670
And also, arguing against it is arguing
against the very act of argumentation.
1172
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:03,180
Because if I argue against you
owning your own body, and by
1173
01:19:03,180 --> 01:19:10,625
extension your stuff, uh, if, if you
try to, uh, Refute that argument.
1174
01:19:10,725 --> 01:19:12,775
You have to use your body to do that.
1175
01:19:12,785 --> 01:19:17,755
So you show, with your action
of arguing, you show me that you
1176
01:19:17,755 --> 01:19:20,735
accept that I own my body too.
1177
01:19:20,815 --> 01:19:26,485
And that through argumentation, we can't
really argue with one another without
1178
01:19:26,505 --> 01:19:30,335
accepting the non aggression principle
to be the cornerstone of everything.
1179
01:19:31,065 --> 01:19:36,686
Because it's implicit in the Implicit in
the very act of arguing, and therefore
1180
01:19:36,686 --> 01:19:41,646
we can sort of deduct that the only
right that can actually be a universal
1181
01:19:41,666 --> 01:19:43,666
right is the right to be left alone.
1182
01:19:44,239 --> 01:19:46,119
Yeah, I kind of understand that.
1183
01:19:46,119 --> 01:19:49,869
But I also, like, I wonder exactly,
like, to what extent are we
1184
01:19:49,869 --> 01:19:51,419
considering now, like, left alone?
1185
01:19:51,429 --> 01:19:53,539
Like what you said, like, you
know, for a physical space.
1186
01:19:54,029 --> 01:19:56,559
I mean, I kind of totally
agree, and I would want that.
1187
01:19:56,559 --> 01:20:01,299
But I also feel like, you know,
it really depends on, like, what
1188
01:20:01,329 --> 01:20:03,099
we classify as being left alone.
1189
01:20:03,109 --> 01:20:08,269
Like, you know, like, if it's me looking
at another person, like, you know, is that
1190
01:20:08,469 --> 01:20:10,549
kind of like me not leaving them alone?
1191
01:20:11,099 --> 01:20:15,129
And then it, then it all, like, if it
is, you know, like, I cannot really
1192
01:20:15,179 --> 01:20:19,039
watch them or look at them or like
that they would have the right to,
1193
01:20:19,079 --> 01:20:24,039
to build some kind of a wall around
themselves, um, would basically just
1194
01:20:24,039 --> 01:20:26,349
mean that we need a lot of resources.
1195
01:20:26,419 --> 01:20:30,719
And the more people there are, the
smaller, the The area basically gets
1196
01:20:30,759 --> 01:20:35,199
unless we somehow create more of
earth or, you know, find other planets
1197
01:20:35,199 --> 01:20:36,709
to populate or something like that.
1198
01:20:36,709 --> 01:20:38,709
But I, I agree with you.
1199
01:20:38,709 --> 01:20:42,629
Like, I agree with the non aggression
principle as not as like a right,
1200
01:20:43,029 --> 01:20:47,749
but as something that's, you
know, as a agreed code for, let's
1201
01:20:47,749 --> 01:20:51,489
say, morally like sane people.
1202
01:20:52,185 --> 01:20:57,825
Yeah, I don't think, like, right might
be the word, but the word is It's
1203
01:20:57,835 --> 01:21:01,815
flawed, but it's still one of the
best words we have for it because,
1204
01:21:01,825 --> 01:21:05,725
like, I don't think there's a world
where everyone lives by this, right?
1205
01:21:05,745 --> 01:21:10,745
It's just impossible, because we're always
going to have conflict about property,
1206
01:21:10,775 --> 01:21:14,895
like, and about land, and everything.
1207
01:21:16,425 --> 01:21:19,975
It's just that if you want to be
civilized, and if you want to do
1208
01:21:20,015 --> 01:21:24,205
things in a civilized way, then
that should be the core principle.
1209
01:21:24,575 --> 01:21:27,535
And it should, should be more
important than everything else.
1210
01:21:27,805 --> 01:21:31,545
Free speech, for instance, and freedom
of expression, and, like, the things
1211
01:21:31,545 --> 01:21:37,265
you said to privacy, they're all,
uh, downstream to property rights.
1212
01:21:37,485 --> 01:21:42,825
Because if, if there's no such thing
as a public space, then Whoever owns
1213
01:21:42,825 --> 01:21:44,365
the property gets to set the rules.
1214
01:21:44,395 --> 01:21:54,275
If I own, uh, Riverside, or X, or Twitter,
I set the rules of who gets to say what on
1215
01:21:54,275 --> 01:21:56,255
that platform, because it's my platform.
1216
01:21:56,865 --> 01:22:01,945
So, and, and, so therefore, freedom
of speech laws are, they're a mirage.
1217
01:22:01,985 --> 01:22:06,225
They're, they're Redundant, because
like, in order for there to have to
1218
01:22:06,225 --> 01:22:10,445
be free speech laws, that implies that
there is public space, or something
1219
01:22:10,445 --> 01:22:14,215
public, is publicly owned, which
has to be preceded by a violation
1220
01:22:14,235 --> 01:22:15,465
of the right to be left alone.
1221
01:22:15,495 --> 01:22:17,365
You have to take stuff from others.
1222
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:23,306
In order to build a public space, so,
so, uh, and I think that's, that's
1223
01:22:23,306 --> 01:22:24,506
true for the privacy thing too.
1224
01:22:24,546 --> 01:22:28,086
There's a great book about this
that Max recommended to me, um, The
1225
01:22:28,086 --> 01:22:30,466
Ethics of Liberty by Mario Rothbard.
1226
01:22:31,296 --> 01:22:34,336
Uh, highly recommended, yeah,
he lays it out very well
1227
01:22:34,336 --> 01:22:36,306
where, where to draw the lines.
1228
01:22:36,694 --> 01:22:39,764
Yeah, and also there's, uh, I
don't know if you guys have heard
1229
01:22:39,764 --> 01:22:44,134
about the book, um, Defending
the Undefendable by Walter Block.
1230
01:22:44,780 --> 01:22:46,350
Oh yeah, yeah, that's on my reading list.
1231
01:22:46,390 --> 01:22:49,670
I haven't read it yet, but
yep, I need to read that.
1232
01:22:50,155 --> 01:22:53,365
There's two versions of it, and
you can also, uh, like, listen
1233
01:22:53,365 --> 01:22:55,285
to it as an audiobook in YouTube.
1234
01:22:55,285 --> 01:22:58,855
Uh, there's all the chapters in there,
but they also have, like, a very,
1235
01:22:58,855 --> 01:23:01,475
very good, like, arguments over there.
1236
01:23:01,475 --> 01:23:04,635
It's basically like, you know,
like, Austrian economics based book.
1237
01:23:04,745 --> 01:23:09,250
Uh, it's just like It's just basically
looking into a lot of these like, you
1238
01:23:09,250 --> 01:23:13,410
know, people or groups of people or
like, let's say jobs of some people
1239
01:23:13,710 --> 01:23:17,480
that are generally considered either
by the government or by generally like
1240
01:23:17,510 --> 01:23:19,600
people as a negative or a bad thing.
1241
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:23,930
And one of the things is like, you know,
over there is like about the peeping Tom.
1242
01:23:24,575 --> 01:23:27,465
So like a guy who kind of like, you
know, pokes his head around, like, you
1243
01:23:27,465 --> 01:23:30,845
know, just lurking and, you know, like
trying to, to look for like, you know,
1244
01:23:30,955 --> 01:23:36,265
cigarettes or whatever, like, there's a
very good defense speech, how the peeping
1245
01:23:36,295 --> 01:23:38,155
Tom is not really doing anything wrong.
1246
01:23:38,505 --> 01:23:40,625
Like, people have no right to privacy.
1247
01:23:40,865 --> 01:23:44,775
Like, if you have your own private
property, yeah, do ahead, whatever
1248
01:23:44,775 --> 01:23:47,395
you want, but like, there is no
right to privacy, you just have
1249
01:23:47,405 --> 01:23:50,305
to make sure that you are not
heard if you really want privacy.
1250
01:23:50,645 --> 01:23:53,925
It's all up to you, full
responsibility, no blaming others.
1251
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:57,120
But yeah, there's a lot of
very interesting chapters
1252
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:59,790
in there, so definitely that
one is also very recommended.
1253
01:24:00,473 --> 01:24:01,683
What is it Mille says?
1254
01:24:02,153 --> 01:24:03,703
Viva libertad, carajo.
1255
01:24:04,493 --> 01:24:05,213
Exactly.
1256
01:24:05,253 --> 01:24:05,913
Exactly.
1257
01:24:06,583 --> 01:24:09,803
By the way, one more thing that I kind
of wanted to mention, maybe over here,
1258
01:24:09,803 --> 01:24:13,353
like, you know, the censorship topic
and it kind of like related to exactly
1259
01:24:13,353 --> 01:24:18,233
like, you know, these rights that people
consider that they have or not don't have.
1260
01:24:18,753 --> 01:24:23,303
So, like, you know, what, what was
really interesting to see now, like,
1261
01:24:23,813 --> 01:24:29,113
already now, a few months ago was, you
know, the ocean mining, um, and it's
1262
01:24:29,233 --> 01:24:32,093
so called, you know, censorship of.
1263
01:24:32,638 --> 01:24:36,748
You know, whatever, inscriptions, or
even samurai will pull transactions.
1264
01:24:37,148 --> 01:24:38,308
That was also pretty hilarious.
1265
01:24:39,518 --> 01:24:43,028
You know, what I'm really disappointed
is exactly like people not using the
1266
01:24:43,028 --> 01:24:47,598
word censorship in any coherent way,
or at least according to my knowledge.
1267
01:24:47,908 --> 01:24:55,938
So, like, to me, like, at least according
to Austrian economics, you can do
1268
01:24:55,948 --> 01:24:58,018
with your property, whatever you want.
1269
01:24:58,563 --> 01:25:02,303
And if you don't want to go ahead and
like, for example, let everyone use
1270
01:25:02,303 --> 01:25:07,593
your server to, to communicate, or you
don't want, you know, to include all of
1271
01:25:07,653 --> 01:25:13,703
the weird shitcoin stuff into your own
nodes, like, you know, uh, SSD, you don't
1272
01:25:13,713 --> 01:25:19,143
need to, it's your private property,
and calling that censorship is just, um.
1273
01:25:19,928 --> 01:25:23,238
Immensely like weird to
me or like very naive.
1274
01:25:23,733 --> 01:25:24,483
It's vulgar.
1275
01:25:24,718 --> 01:25:29,288
I mean, if there is these, you know,
like rights, the right for you to
1276
01:25:29,368 --> 01:25:33,808
choose who do you do business with
or whose data are you storing?
1277
01:25:33,818 --> 01:25:36,208
Or like, who do you want
to even communicate with?
1278
01:25:36,518 --> 01:25:38,518
It is much, much higher.
1279
01:25:38,738 --> 01:25:41,978
Then some weird like social, you
know, virtue signaling of like,
1280
01:25:41,978 --> 01:25:43,438
Oh, we have to accept everyone.
1281
01:25:43,438 --> 01:25:46,778
And, you know, like all data
is like equal, like bullshit.
1282
01:25:47,038 --> 01:25:51,048
This is so stupid and like naive from
Bitcoiners to even say that, like,
1283
01:25:51,048 --> 01:25:56,398
at least in my understanding, only
like governments can censor things.
1284
01:25:56,723 --> 01:26:00,923
Like, only governments have basically
promised, like, other people some
1285
01:26:00,923 --> 01:26:04,093
services, and they have taken the money
and kind of, like, said that, okay,
1286
01:26:04,133 --> 01:26:08,343
these will be available for you, but then
the government might go ahead and, you
1287
01:26:08,343 --> 01:26:09,873
know, like, start restricting things.
1288
01:26:09,913 --> 01:26:11,563
That's what I call, like, censorship.
1289
01:26:11,938 --> 01:26:14,678
Everything else is just
private individuals choosing
1290
01:26:14,728 --> 01:26:15,828
who they do business with.
1291
01:26:16,793 --> 01:26:19,643
I wouldn't say only governments,
I would say all criminals,
1292
01:26:19,643 --> 01:26:20,853
and not only governments.
1293
01:26:21,213 --> 01:26:23,393
But every criminal institution, consensor.
1294
01:26:23,683 --> 01:26:25,603
Like, because it requires force.
1295
01:26:25,873 --> 01:26:26,893
That's, that's key.
1296
01:26:27,918 --> 01:26:32,758
Well, but I think like, for example, like
Twitter, like it's a private company and
1297
01:26:32,908 --> 01:26:36,758
for example, if they want to go ahead and
kick someone out of their platform, even
1298
01:26:36,758 --> 01:26:41,648
though I might not like it, I think the
right of them to be able to choose who
1299
01:26:41,658 --> 01:26:45,888
they serve or who they do business with,
whose data are they storing, I think it's
1300
01:26:45,888 --> 01:26:50,118
even higher than kind of like, you know,
just my opinion for that specific person.
1301
01:26:50,418 --> 01:26:50,928
Like I cannot.
1302
01:26:51,893 --> 01:26:55,313
I cannot explain it to myself,
like, why would, let's say, Twitter
1303
01:26:55,323 --> 01:26:58,583
have to go ahead and, like, serve
people who they don't want to.
1304
01:26:59,883 --> 01:27:04,323
So, my point was basically just that, you
know, that ocean mining, in my opinion,
1305
01:27:04,353 --> 01:27:06,343
is not really, like, censoring anything.
1306
01:27:06,913 --> 01:27:07,943
Absolutely not.
1307
01:27:08,153 --> 01:27:08,253
The
1308
01:27:08,783 --> 01:27:12,083
yeah, like, they are, like, we can
call it, let's say, filtering or
1309
01:27:12,083 --> 01:27:14,173
whatever, and that's totally okay.
1310
01:27:14,253 --> 01:27:16,673
They are not forced by
the government to do it.
1311
01:27:17,413 --> 01:27:19,563
So I would not call it censorship.
1312
01:27:20,287 --> 01:27:24,026
tricky thing, though, with Twitter,
for instance, is when, whatever
1313
01:27:24,036 --> 01:27:29,456
decisions the, the government makes
about Twitter, like how much taxes
1314
01:27:29,486 --> 01:27:34,946
Elon needs to pay or something, and
then by proxy force, force him to, uh,
1315
01:27:35,016 --> 01:27:39,396
to throw someone off of Twitter, then
it is censorship, like, because these
1316
01:27:39,416 --> 01:27:45,506
things do get kept, uh, captivated by
government institutions, uh, very often,
1317
01:27:45,506 --> 01:27:47,286
and especially if they get too big.
1318
01:27:47,331 --> 01:27:52,011
So that's the thing, I think that's
the core of the problem, that there
1319
01:27:52,241 --> 01:27:56,221
will always be criminals who will use
force to force people to do stuff.
1320
01:27:58,001 --> 01:27:59,321
That's why we have the problems.
1321
01:28:00,084 --> 01:28:00,264
Yep.
1322
01:28:00,404 --> 01:28:00,694
Yep.
1323
01:28:01,024 --> 01:28:01,784
And that's the thing.
1324
01:28:01,784 --> 01:28:05,214
I also would like to kind of, you
know, like be careful of like with the,
1325
01:28:05,574 --> 01:28:08,894
uh, with the exact wording of like,
let's say that if the government is
1326
01:28:08,894 --> 01:28:13,514
pressuring Twitter to kick someone out,
I think the government is censoring.
1327
01:28:14,064 --> 01:28:20,264
Twitter has basically the, the option of
like, you know, just shutting their whole
1328
01:28:20,264 --> 01:28:23,614
business down because they don't want to
kick one guy out of it, or, you know, like
1329
01:28:23,614 --> 01:28:27,184
they don't want to obey the government
or something like that, but it's totally
1330
01:28:27,184 --> 01:28:30,244
understandable that they probably will
just go ahead and then kick out this
1331
01:28:30,244 --> 01:28:35,564
one guy because they are pressured to do
so, but I think it would still, I would
1332
01:28:35,564 --> 01:28:41,649
call it that it's Twitter's personal
decision, uh, to do so, even, but they
1333
01:28:41,649 --> 01:28:44,279
are heavily, like, pressured to censor.
1334
01:28:44,509 --> 01:28:47,389
But they are not, like, they are not
censoring, they are just choosing
1335
01:28:47,419 --> 01:28:49,079
who they serve or what they do.
1336
01:28:49,559 --> 01:28:51,099
Uh, it's the government that censors.
1337
01:28:52,008 --> 01:28:56,848
And this is so bad because everything
is intertwined with government action,
1338
01:28:56,858 --> 01:29:01,748
like every person's every decision
is colored by the fact that we have
1339
01:29:01,748 --> 01:29:04,478
governments meddling with people's lives.
1340
01:29:05,758 --> 01:29:09,348
Alright, so, yeah, I had a random
thought this morning about this.
1341
01:29:09,768 --> 01:29:15,598
Is, is, um, is God the ultimate
central planner and interventionist?
1342
01:29:16,678 --> 01:29:18,108
I think that's a good question for you.
1343
01:29:19,819 --> 01:29:24,749
I mean, I think it just depends on,
like, what do we think as God, because,
1344
01:29:24,749 --> 01:29:30,724
like, Like to me, the idea of like
having one creator is just something
1345
01:29:30,734 --> 01:29:34,614
that doesn't compute in my head because
like, even like, you know, especially all
1346
01:29:34,634 --> 01:29:38,664
Bitcoiners, like we have heard of the,
like the concept of division of labor
1347
01:29:39,304 --> 01:29:43,554
and the whole idea that, you know, it's
just one thing or one creature that has
1348
01:29:43,644 --> 01:29:49,474
created everything instead of like, you
know, a group or, you know, multiple of
1349
01:29:49,514 --> 01:29:51,404
gods or whatever we want to call them.
1350
01:29:52,204 --> 01:29:52,724
I think.
1351
01:29:52,724 --> 01:29:52,794
Yeah.
1352
01:29:53,299 --> 01:29:59,469
Yeah, the having multiple things involved
in the whole creation is more likely,
1353
01:29:59,699 --> 01:30:02,409
but like, is it like, centrally planned?
1354
01:30:03,499 --> 01:30:03,969
Yeah.
1355
01:30:04,989 --> 01:30:06,569
I mean, that's a very good question.
1356
01:30:07,095 --> 01:30:09,028
I
1357
01:30:09,598 --> 01:30:12,948
there's, as far as I understand,
there are two religious camps
1358
01:30:12,968 --> 01:30:14,188
when it comes to creators.
1359
01:30:14,218 --> 01:30:19,028
And there's one that says that, uh,
oh, God just did stuff before the
1360
01:30:19,028 --> 01:30:20,913
Big Bang and set all the parameters.
1361
01:30:21,493 --> 01:30:26,333
And then there's the other group
that thinks that they can pray
1362
01:30:26,333 --> 01:30:28,133
and stuff, and God can intervene.
1363
01:30:28,573 --> 01:30:32,333
So either he's a great central
planner, or an interventionist.
1364
01:30:33,763 --> 01:30:39,623
And why any of those two would be a good
thing, I have a hard time understanding.
1365
01:30:41,889 --> 01:30:48,065
mean, I really love the, you know,
was it Epicurean, Dilemma, but
1366
01:30:48,065 --> 01:30:50,765
something like that, you know, like,
have you heard of the Epicurean,
1367
01:30:50,885 --> 01:30:52,595
um, like thing regarding God?
1368
01:30:52,935 --> 01:30:56,145
So it's basically like asking,
like, is God all powerful?
1369
01:30:56,685 --> 01:31:01,245
And if it's the world is like, if the
word is yes, uh, then there is, you
1370
01:31:01,245 --> 01:31:04,485
know, like something like the question
of like, okay, well, then why there is
1371
01:31:04,515 --> 01:31:09,875
evil and like, why can't God basically
like, you know, just destroy the evil
1372
01:31:09,885 --> 01:31:13,025
or was he aware that there's like,
you know, did he create the Satan?
1373
01:31:13,415 --> 01:31:16,235
And if, if yes, why, like.
1374
01:31:16,740 --> 01:31:21,560
And, like, if, like, is Sata more
powerful than God, and if not, couldn't
1375
01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:23,060
God just go ahead and get rid of it?
1376
01:31:23,480 --> 01:31:26,660
And, you know, like, if you, like,
there's, there's a very good kind of,
1377
01:31:26,660 --> 01:31:30,130
like, you know, train of thought, I can
just try to find it quickly over here.
1378
01:31:31,256 --> 01:31:32,576
I think I heard that one.
1379
01:31:32,686 --> 01:31:35,281
It's like, uh A flowchart
or something, right?
1380
01:31:36,046 --> 01:31:40,176
Yeah, it's, yeah, exactly, flowchart,
and it's, uh, Epicurean paradox.
1381
01:31:41,216 --> 01:31:47,146
So how the idea of an all knowing
creature just does not make sense
1382
01:31:47,216 --> 01:31:49,686
at all, like, it defies all logic.
1383
01:31:50,558 --> 01:31:51,088
Oh, okay.
1384
01:31:51,118 --> 01:31:51,338
Yeah.
1385
01:31:51,338 --> 01:31:53,998
So evil exists.
1386
01:31:54,278 --> 01:31:54,778
Yes.
1387
01:31:55,108 --> 01:31:57,578
So can God prevent evil?
1388
01:31:57,858 --> 01:32:00,308
If no, then God is not all powerful.
1389
01:32:00,618 --> 01:32:03,948
If yes, does God know about all the evil?
1390
01:32:04,328 --> 01:32:07,808
If no, then God is not all knowing.
1391
01:32:08,178 --> 01:32:11,728
If yes, does the God want to prevent evil?
1392
01:32:12,278 --> 01:32:15,618
If no, then God is not
good, and he is not loving.
1393
01:32:15,788 --> 01:32:19,978
But if he wants to prevent evil,
then why is there some evil?
1394
01:32:20,470 --> 01:32:23,430
yeah, so the answers could be like,
you know, to test us, but if God
1395
01:32:23,430 --> 01:32:26,570
is all knowing, he should know
what we would do if we were tested.
1396
01:32:26,680 --> 01:32:28,670
Therefore, there is no need to test us.
1397
01:32:29,526 --> 01:32:33,286
yeah, you know, there's this, like, very
interesting flowchart exactly about, like,
1398
01:32:33,286 --> 01:32:39,092
how a single all knowing thing Probably,
like, you know, not the likeliest,
1399
01:32:39,677 --> 01:32:43,477
No, it's, it's basically, it's
basically about cognitive dissonance.
1400
01:32:43,757 --> 01:32:47,857
And, uh, you know, back to
thinking fast and slow again
1401
01:32:47,857 --> 01:32:50,997
and why our brains are flawed.
1402
01:32:52,192 --> 01:32:52,562
yep.
1403
01:32:52,692 --> 01:32:55,982
And we want to have that weird piece,
just like with relationships, like,
1404
01:32:55,982 --> 01:33:00,312
you know, it's, it's just that we
feel so bad when there's a void.
1405
01:33:00,942 --> 01:33:06,022
When there's, when you don't know, and you
know, like, when you, when you're alone.
1406
01:33:06,342 --> 01:33:11,582
That's, that is really kind of
depressing, and like, it's a big pressure.
1407
01:33:12,482 --> 01:33:16,582
But trying to come up with like crazy
stories just to, you know, come up
1408
01:33:16,582 --> 01:33:22,482
with a patch to make yourself like a
little bit happier, I mean, sure, if
1409
01:33:22,482 --> 01:33:28,662
it helps you go ahead, but just like I
think I said it in a previous episode
1410
01:33:28,662 --> 01:33:33,352
of ours, like, you know, Bitcoiners
seem to know that People don't need
1411
01:33:33,352 --> 01:33:36,962
laws, uh, to make them act properly.
1412
01:33:37,052 --> 01:33:40,282
Like, you know, the responsible
people will know how to act properly.
1413
01:33:40,512 --> 01:33:43,662
The same thing goes with, like,
all of these weird God stories.
1414
01:33:43,962 --> 01:33:49,242
Like, if you are moral, like,
you will be moral anyway.
1415
01:33:49,242 --> 01:33:52,342
You don't need to hear, like,
weird stories about, like, you
1416
01:33:52,382 --> 01:33:55,482
know, random bearded guys splitting
oceans and multiplying fish
1417
01:33:55,482 --> 01:33:56,352
and bread and shit like that.
1418
01:33:56,963 --> 01:34:02,333
There's a great Kurzgesagt video called
Optimistic Nihilism about this, that there
1419
01:34:02,333 --> 01:34:09,123
is a, like, making a case for a, um, a
worldview which accepts that, you know, in
1420
01:34:09,123 --> 01:34:12,913
four billion years the sun will eat us all
and we're probably never getting out of
1421
01:34:12,913 --> 01:34:17,153
here and that everything is pointless, but
that might not necessarily be a bad thing.
1422
01:34:19,563 --> 01:34:23,803
It, in fact, it might be what
gives a lifetime its value,
1423
01:34:23,873 --> 01:34:25,703
that there is no meaning.
1424
01:34:25,713 --> 01:34:27,323
You can make it yourself and you can.
1425
01:34:28,068 --> 01:34:32,258
Since it's scarce, you have a scarce
amount of, a finite amount of time,
1426
01:34:32,578 --> 01:34:33,838
that's what makes it valuable.
1427
01:34:34,672 --> 01:34:35,452
And I like that.
1428
01:34:36,119 --> 01:34:41,399
Uh, hey, so, so, um, yeah, we've dug into
a whole bunch of topics, uh, I think I
1429
01:34:41,399 --> 01:34:47,019
could either just toss it back to you, any
last thoughts, or maybe, maybe just to get
1430
01:34:47,019 --> 01:34:50,184
in a little bit of practical conversation.
1431
01:34:50,194 --> 01:34:53,694
What's, what's going on at
Wasabi ZK Snacks these days?
1432
01:34:55,234 --> 01:34:58,094
So, uh, there's a lot of things going on.
1433
01:34:58,144 --> 01:35:02,434
So you guys have, might probably heard
already that, uh, well, like two of
1434
01:35:02,434 --> 01:35:07,674
our original founders, so Nopara and
Balint, uh, they both now left the
1435
01:35:07,674 --> 01:35:09,984
project, uh, to work on other things.
1436
01:35:10,564 --> 01:35:14,944
Uh, well, they're also getting, you
know, like increasing the family
1437
01:35:14,954 --> 01:35:16,744
size and, you know, things like that.
1438
01:35:16,784 --> 01:35:17,034
So.
1439
01:35:17,524 --> 01:35:21,344
Uh, they're taking their time
off and well, basically now the
1440
01:35:21,344 --> 01:35:25,374
project seems to be moving into
a bit of different directions.
1441
01:35:25,394 --> 01:35:30,474
So instead of just trying to make a
very newbie friendly wallet, uh, that is
1442
01:35:30,494 --> 01:35:35,814
very easy by default, uh, like now we're
kind of like moving into more of this.
1443
01:35:36,284 --> 01:35:41,474
Like, let's have an easy default, but we
also have to have the optional insight
1444
01:35:41,594 --> 01:35:43,654
and the control options for the users.
1445
01:35:44,229 --> 01:35:49,889
So we want to be able to kind of actually
show what does, what was, like, wabi
1446
01:35:49,929 --> 01:35:54,249
sabi, allow users to do, what is going on
in their coin joints and everything, and
1447
01:35:54,249 --> 01:35:56,129
for even them to be able to tweak things.
1448
01:35:56,689 --> 01:35:59,269
This is, of course, like, you
know, uh, there's a risk to it.
1449
01:35:59,289 --> 01:36:02,189
So one of the biggest
feedbacks that we got with 1.
1450
01:36:02,189 --> 01:36:06,029
0 was exactly that, even though we warned
people for not doing the bad actions or
1451
01:36:06,029 --> 01:36:10,634
stupid actions, They did them anyway, and
people then blamed Wasabi for, you know,
1452
01:36:10,634 --> 01:36:15,604
like, not, like, restricting the user
from not doing, you know, stupid things.
1453
01:36:16,174 --> 01:36:21,274
Well, we now restricted it, but I
don't think that's the best way to go.
1454
01:36:21,424 --> 01:36:25,494
I think, well, Bitcoiners
should be responsible.
1455
01:36:25,704 --> 01:36:30,584
They should, and they Like, they should
know how things are working, more or less.
1456
01:36:30,584 --> 01:36:32,004
They should do their research.
1457
01:36:32,004 --> 01:36:36,514
They should be able to, like, you know,
learn how UTXO model works and how do you
1458
01:36:36,514 --> 01:36:38,474
actually get some privacy in mainchain.
1459
01:36:38,944 --> 01:36:43,924
It's, it should not be just like
a black box and you just trust it.
1460
01:36:44,329 --> 01:36:48,749
So yeah, we're taking that risk
again, and I'm kind of pretty
1461
01:36:48,749 --> 01:36:50,349
happy with the direction.
1462
01:36:50,349 --> 01:36:53,529
So there's going to be, you know,
like, we're going to be working on,
1463
01:36:53,579 --> 01:36:58,399
like, making payments in CoinJoin
now in the probably near future.
1464
01:36:58,539 --> 01:37:02,759
So it's not really like a big privacy
improvement, but it's definitely
1465
01:37:02,759 --> 01:37:04,089
like an efficiency improvement.
1466
01:37:05,964 --> 01:37:09,924
Well, I mean, we also actually do have
like a re a release coming up probably
1467
01:37:09,924 --> 01:37:15,234
now inside a week or something, which
is basically like a, a half a year
1468
01:37:15,324 --> 01:37:17,424
of work that we have put out there.
1469
01:37:17,844 --> 01:37:22,164
Uh, we have not made, you know, like
a, a proper release now for half a
1470
01:37:22,169 --> 01:37:26,594
year other than the buy anything button
that was kind of like a, just a totally
1471
01:37:26,594 --> 01:37:30,914
separate, uh, you know, thing that we
added in and put out this version, this.
1472
01:37:32,709 --> 01:37:33,249
Upcoming 2.
1473
01:37:33,249 --> 01:37:33,249
0.
1474
01:37:33,249 --> 01:37:38,059
6, it will have a huge amount
of performance improvements,
1475
01:37:38,349 --> 01:37:43,359
new RPC calls, yeah, all kind
of really good, good things.
1476
01:37:44,619 --> 01:37:49,139
But yeah, and especially like, you
know, well, I would say that, you know,
1477
01:37:49,149 --> 01:37:51,109
keep an eye on the next few releases.
1478
01:37:51,299 --> 01:37:52,999
There's going to be a
lot of very cool stuff.
1479
01:37:54,454 --> 01:37:55,614
Cool, great to hear.
1480
01:37:56,254 --> 01:38:00,094
Yeah, the buy anything, that's the
collaboration with Shopinbit, right?
1481
01:38:00,959 --> 01:38:01,729
Yes, yes.
1482
01:38:02,239 --> 01:38:03,539
So we basically.
1483
01:38:04,194 --> 01:38:08,574
I wanted to allow, uh, users who are
worried that they don't want to go
1484
01:38:08,574 --> 01:38:11,854
ahead and coinjoin because they don't
know if their exchanges will give them
1485
01:38:11,854 --> 01:38:16,164
problems, like troubles for having
some private or coinjoined coin.
1486
01:38:16,684 --> 01:38:21,079
So, what we wanted to do instead
is So basically, you know, cut
1487
01:38:21,079 --> 01:38:24,669
off that fiat exchange, like, you
know, off ramp, we don't need that.
1488
01:38:24,979 --> 01:38:27,909
Like, let's actually endorse, you
know, circular Bitcoin economy.
1489
01:38:28,189 --> 01:38:33,249
Let's allow people to buy
basically anything legal, um,
1490
01:38:33,279 --> 01:38:35,089
like with their private Bitcoin.
1491
01:38:35,989 --> 01:38:37,929
In the most private possible way.
1492
01:38:38,529 --> 01:38:43,759
So, like, you know, like, we do still
have, like, all of the communication that
1493
01:38:43,759 --> 01:38:47,909
you, uh, like, you know, have with the
concierge through the buy anything button
1494
01:38:48,219 --> 01:38:53,319
that will all go through TOR and it's
only between, like, uh, the client and
1495
01:38:53,369 --> 01:38:57,874
the shopping bit, like, for example, TK
Snacks, Doesn't know anything about it,
1496
01:38:58,694 --> 01:39:00,474
but it's none of their business anyway.
1497
01:39:01,514 --> 01:39:06,894
This will basically allow you to talk
with a concierge with Tor on by default.
1498
01:39:07,234 --> 01:39:09,964
So you don't have to worry about
like your IP addresses also
1499
01:39:09,964 --> 01:39:11,164
leaking into the wrong place.
1500
01:39:11,564 --> 01:39:14,154
And I mean, we cannot teleport you stuff.
1501
01:39:14,639 --> 01:39:18,259
Like, that's something that we haven't
yet figured out, so we, like, you know,
1502
01:39:18,259 --> 01:39:21,749
of course, the concierge service will
need some kind of an address where to
1503
01:39:21,779 --> 01:39:26,629
send and shift the stuff, but the good
parts of it is also that, like, let's say
1504
01:39:26,629 --> 01:39:29,889
you have, you know, like, 10 different
items all over the world from different
1505
01:39:29,889 --> 01:39:33,629
countries, different vendors that you
are interested in buying, instead of you
1506
01:39:33,649 --> 01:39:36,979
having to go ahead and, like, actually
negotiate them with them yourself to
1507
01:39:36,979 --> 01:39:38,119
be able to buy in Bitcoin, Bitcoin.
1508
01:39:38,504 --> 01:39:42,534
And then you have to send all of the
10 different people all of your, like,
1509
01:39:42,624 --> 01:39:44,524
you know, uh, mailing information.
1510
01:39:45,344 --> 01:39:50,004
Now, you can just go ahead and
basically send it to, uh, through
1511
01:39:50,004 --> 01:39:51,954
this concierge service in Wasabi.
1512
01:39:52,669 --> 01:39:57,369
And you send it to one person who will
then go ahead and order everything
1513
01:39:57,369 --> 01:40:01,339
you need from all of these different
places all over the world, and they
1514
01:40:01,339 --> 01:40:03,049
will not use your shipping address.
1515
01:40:03,429 --> 01:40:07,399
They will, like, the shopping bit will
be basically ordering all of the stuff
1516
01:40:07,399 --> 01:40:11,349
that you want to their warehouse,
where they can also go ahead and
1517
01:40:11,449 --> 01:40:15,429
repackage it, uh, to make sure that
the packages are actually private.
1518
01:40:16,014 --> 01:40:19,764
And then they will only ship it to
you, so there is no need to share your
1519
01:40:19,804 --> 01:40:23,724
address or, you know, like any of that
stuff with a lot of different merchants.
1520
01:40:24,464 --> 01:40:27,924
So it's a, it's a very cool kind of
like, you know, a virtual assistant
1521
01:40:27,924 --> 01:40:29,674
that can get you a lot of stuff.
1522
01:40:30,214 --> 01:40:34,314
Of course, like there's a huge demand for
it, so now it's like restricted that I
1523
01:40:34,314 --> 01:40:38,904
think the order should be like in total
above 1, 000 or something like that.
1524
01:40:39,454 --> 01:40:43,154
But there seems to be definitely
like a lot of demand for, for these
1525
01:40:43,154 --> 01:40:44,324
kind of like Bitcoin services.
1526
01:40:45,554 --> 01:40:46,034
Cool.
1527
01:40:46,234 --> 01:40:51,334
So, yeah, we'll keep an eye out for the
updates for sure, and you'll have to DM
1528
01:40:51,334 --> 01:40:53,694
me whenever you figure out teleportation.
1529
01:40:54,369 --> 01:40:55,499
Uh, and how to do that.
1530
01:40:55,929 --> 01:40:56,269
Yeah.
1531
01:40:56,954 --> 01:40:57,764
We'll do, we'll do.
1532
01:40:58,704 --> 01:40:59,254
Two weeks.
1533
01:40:59,729 --> 01:41:00,139
All right.
1534
01:41:00,139 --> 01:41:02,379
Hey, Rafe, this has been fantastic.
1535
01:41:02,389 --> 01:41:04,319
Always great to have you on.
1536
01:41:04,369 --> 01:41:07,939
And, uh, now I, I, I think, I
think we're, we're wrapping up.
1537
01:41:08,029 --> 01:41:12,879
So, uh, can you just, uh, tell our
listeners where they can find you
1538
01:41:12,919 --> 01:41:17,789
and, uh, Wasabi and, uh, anything else
you'd like to mention here at the end?
1539
01:41:19,549 --> 01:41:21,749
Well, like I said, it doesn't
really matter who I am.
1540
01:41:21,749 --> 01:41:22,899
So forget about that.
1541
01:41:23,009 --> 01:41:26,539
Just go ahead and check out Wasabi,
buy Bitcoin and eat some shrooms.
1542
01:41:26,969 --> 01:41:28,649
That's basically all that I want to say.
1543
01:41:29,513 --> 01:41:30,173
All right.
1544
01:41:30,663 --> 01:41:35,313
Well, uh, we'll Get working on all all
three as soon as possible, Luke, won't we?
1545
01:41:36,548 --> 01:41:37,218
Absolutely.
1546
01:41:37,268 --> 01:41:39,678
And, uh, I think the only add
ons are like, subscribe and
1547
01:41:39,678 --> 01:41:40,748
brush your teeth, right Knut?
1548
01:41:41,183 --> 01:41:41,923
Absolutely.
1549
01:41:42,293 --> 01:41:43,253
And ring the damn bell.
1550
01:41:44,463 --> 01:41:45,243
Take care folks
1551
01:41:45,713 --> 01:41:48,923
All right, this has been the Freedom
Footprint Show, thanks for listening.