March 4, 2024

Finding the Meaning of Life with Rafe - FFS #91

Finding the Meaning of Life with Rafe - FFS #91

In this episode we're joined for the second time by our friend Rafe, contributor to Wasabi Wallet, for a discussion on Bitcoin privacy, human behavior, and the pursuit of meaning in the modern age.
Key Points Discussed:🔹 The critical need for privac...

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The Bitcoin Infinity Show

In this episode we're joined for the second time by our friend Rafe, contributor to Wasabi Wallet, for a discussion on Bitcoin privacy, human behavior, and the pursuit of meaning in the modern age.

Key Points Discussed:
🔹 The critical need for privacy in Bitcoin
🔹 Exploring human psychology and decision-making.
🔹 Rafe’s personal journey and philosophical views on life and technology.
🔹 Debates on family, ambition, and societal norms.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:38 Welcoming Rafe
03:14 It Doesn't Matter Who Rafe Is
05:59 The Role of the Ego
10:29 Thinking Fast and Slow
19:23 Children and Family
38:40 Layers of Human Personality
49:13 Greatness vs Children
52:11 The Ideal Number of Kids
54:40 Maps of Meaning and The Meaning of Life
01:02:15 The Search for Meaning
01:09:00 Striving for Greatness
01:11:59 Responsibility Maximalism
01:15:28 Meditation and Experimentation
01:17:00 Human Rights
01:22:36 Defending the Undefendable
01:24:06 Censorship
01:29:05 God the Central Planner
01:33:56 Optimistic Nihilism
01:34:50 Latest from Wasabi and zkSnacks
01:40:59 Wrapping Up

The Freedom Footprint Show is a Bitcoin podcast hosted by Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf.

In each episode, we explore everything from deep philosophy to practical tools to emit freedom dioxide to expand your freedom footprint.

Join us as we head toward the orange glowing light together!  

The Freedom Footprint Show is a Bitcoin podcast hosted by Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf.

In each episode, we explore everything from deep philosophy to practical tools to emit freedom dioxide to expand your freedom footprint!

Chapters

00:00 - Intro

01:38 - Welcoming Rafe

03:14 - It Doesn't Matter Who Rafe Is

05:59 - The Role of the Ego

10:29 - Thinking Fast and Slow

19:23 - Children and Family

38:40 - Layers of Human Personality

49:13 - Greatness vs Children

52:11 - The Ideal Number of Kids

54:40 - Maps of Meaning and The Meaning of Life

01:02:15 - The Search for Meaning

01:09:00 - Striving for Greatness

01:11:59 - Responsibility Maximalism

01:15:28 - Meditation and Experimentation

01:17:00 - Human Rights

01:22:36 - Defending the Undefendable

01:24:06 - Censorship

01:29:05 - God the Central Planner

01:33:56 - Optimistic Nihilism

01:34:50 - Latest from Wasabi and zkSnacks

01:40:59 - Wrapping Up

Transcript
1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,776 I do think I have good meaning for life. 2 00:00:02,776 --> 00:00:05,257 It's just that I feel like things are way too easy. 3 00:00:05,354 --> 00:00:09,985 I had this thought in my mind, years ago, that would be like really awesome to work 4 00:00:09,985 --> 00:00:13,585 on Bitcoin things and not really have to have, a fiat job Well, I got that. 5 00:00:13,633 --> 00:00:16,845 Then I also realized when I got a little bit deeper into Bitcoin stuff 6 00:00:16,845 --> 00:00:20,851 that I really want to, focus on doing something really, really meaningful. 7 00:00:21,022 --> 00:00:23,919 And I, feel like working on Bitcoin and especially like 8 00:00:23,938 --> 00:00:25,465 working on Bitcoin privacy. 9 00:00:25,556 --> 00:00:29,923 is probably one of the most urgent things that we should be working on 10 00:01:38,345 --> 00:01:40,265 Welcome back to the Freedom Footprint show. 11 00:01:40,535 --> 00:01:43,935 Today's guest is our good friend Rafe from Wasabi. 12 00:01:44,295 --> 00:01:46,095 And this is the second time on the show. 13 00:01:46,095 --> 00:01:49,045 If you want an introduction to Rafe and everything that he's up 14 00:01:49,045 --> 00:01:50,955 to, check out the first episode. 15 00:01:50,975 --> 00:01:54,165 But today we want to talk about anything and everything. 16 00:01:54,165 --> 00:01:57,225 So, Rafe, welcome back to the Freedom Footprint show. 17 00:01:57,235 --> 00:01:58,185 Great to have you as always. 18 00:01:59,217 --> 00:01:59,507 Luke. 19 00:01:59,577 --> 00:02:00,487 Thank you, Knut. 20 00:02:00,817 --> 00:02:04,277 Like, it's also like, really awesome to be talking with you guys again. 21 00:02:04,811 --> 00:02:08,911 Yeah, great to have you back, uh, uh, Rafael, and, uh, you're already 22 00:02:08,911 --> 00:02:10,521 on Madeira, as we understand it. 23 00:02:10,970 --> 00:02:15,250 yeah, there's this sovereign engineering cohort, uh, that has been going on over 24 00:02:15,250 --> 00:02:17,670 here, like, already for like, 6 weeks. 25 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,100 I mean, I just came in, uh, like, 2 weeks ago, but it's really, really awesome. 26 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:27,890 Like, there's, you know, like, 25 Nostr and Bitcoin builders basically in here 27 00:02:27,890 --> 00:02:31,240 just creating havoc and, you know, trying to orange pill the whole island. 28 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,770 And I mean, it's actually going pretty well. 29 00:02:35,143 --> 00:02:35,923 Uh, fantastic. 30 00:02:35,923 --> 00:02:38,343 It's Gigi and Pablo's project, right? 31 00:02:38,853 --> 00:02:41,833 Uh, yes, yes, they are mainly running it. 32 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:44,644 Yeah, sounds, sounds absolutely fantastic. 33 00:02:44,886 --> 00:02:47,896 Yeah, I mean, this is a really nice paradise island, so like, if 34 00:02:47,896 --> 00:02:51,026 you can take a little bit of your time to come over here before the 35 00:02:51,026 --> 00:02:53,846 conference or to stay after it, I think it's going to be worth it. 36 00:02:54,061 --> 00:02:54,511 yeah. 37 00:02:55,091 --> 00:02:56,561 Uh, and you. 38 00:02:57,201 --> 00:03:01,201 You have a bunch of topics that you want to talk to us about today, and I looked 39 00:03:01,201 --> 00:03:04,741 through the notes there, and it sounds really, really interesting, so I think 40 00:03:04,741 --> 00:03:10,421 we can just start getting into stuff here, because, like, these are topics 41 00:03:10,421 --> 00:03:14,831 that just excite me by just reading them. 42 00:03:14,951 --> 00:03:19,481 So, the first point on that list is censorship, and I guess 43 00:03:19,731 --> 00:03:23,931 Uh, or no, the first point is it doesn't not matter who I am. 44 00:03:24,121 --> 00:03:27,251 Um, all right, I'll, I'll take it away, Rafa. 45 00:03:29,028 --> 00:03:32,548 I mean, this is the first thing of like, you know, it doesn't matter who I am. 46 00:03:32,688 --> 00:03:35,158 It's just the thing that I've always wanted to say. 47 00:03:35,158 --> 00:03:39,518 And I always wonder, like, you know, How, I mean, it's totally normal that in 48 00:03:39,518 --> 00:03:42,748 every podcast you're being asked, like, you know, who you are and what do you do? 49 00:03:42,828 --> 00:03:47,358 It's an important context for the viewer or the listener, but it's also 50 00:03:47,358 --> 00:03:51,178 something that a little bit bothers me that no one is actually saying it out 51 00:03:51,178 --> 00:03:54,388 loud, or at least I haven't heard it whenever they are asked that question, 52 00:03:54,588 --> 00:03:56,328 that it doesn't matter who I am. 53 00:03:56,728 --> 00:03:57,858 Like, whatever 54 00:03:58,008 --> 00:03:58,328 Rafa? 55 00:03:59,460 --> 00:04:00,260 well, that's the thing. 56 00:04:00,330 --> 00:04:04,287 I'm still kind of figuring it out, but, the point is basically 57 00:04:04,287 --> 00:04:07,465 that, like, what I'm saying is the thing that should matter. 58 00:04:07,585 --> 00:04:10,095 It's not really about who I am or who is saying it. 59 00:04:10,415 --> 00:04:13,495 Like, if the things that I'm saying out there, like, if they make sense. 60 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,520 That's the only thing to care about. 61 00:04:15,590 --> 00:04:18,290 Who said it or where or when or something like that. 62 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,360 I mean, it might help you to get a little bit more of that similar 63 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,000 type of content or something, but in general, people should not be looking 64 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,980 into like, you know, some kind of titles or, or anything like that. 65 00:04:29,509 --> 00:04:31,339 No, no, no, I, I, I totally agree. 66 00:04:31,339 --> 00:04:32,629 It's an ego dropping thing. 67 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:36,049 And this is one of the most refreshing things about the 68 00:04:36,049 --> 00:04:41,479 Bitcoin space in comparison to the fiat space that, that I know. 69 00:04:41,489 --> 00:04:44,809 Like when I started working in an office and fiat job. 70 00:04:45,409 --> 00:04:51,559 Like, before I, I had a title, or like, before I climbed the hierarchy 71 00:04:51,559 --> 00:04:55,969 ladders, uh, before I started climbing them, like, no one was listening to me. 72 00:04:56,554 --> 00:05:00,214 Because it's all about like, uh, titles and, and stuff. 73 00:05:00,924 --> 00:05:03,434 And I think a lot of institutions are that way too. 74 00:05:03,464 --> 00:05:08,184 So, so like, um, but Bitcoin is, it's so refreshing because like, everything that 75 00:05:08,184 --> 00:05:13,264 matters is ideas and merits and like, it's, it's a true meritocracy in that way. 76 00:05:13,774 --> 00:05:16,604 People don't really care about your back, background as long as 77 00:05:16,604 --> 00:05:17,864 you have something clever to say. 78 00:05:17,864 --> 00:05:20,104 And like, Satoshi is the prime example of that. 79 00:05:20,124 --> 00:05:24,374 Like, nobody even knows if he has a master's degree or If it's 80 00:05:24,374 --> 00:05:28,614 flipping burgers, or if it was flipping burgers, and nobody cares 81 00:05:28,644 --> 00:05:30,194 because the idea was good enough. 82 00:05:30,704 --> 00:05:33,301 Is that what you're thinking of when you say it doesn't matter who I am? 83 00:05:33,665 --> 00:05:34,725 Yes, exactly. 84 00:05:34,775 --> 00:05:38,675 And it's just like, you know, I'm really glad that Luke, now you basically just 85 00:05:38,685 --> 00:05:42,575 gave me exactly like, you know, the good introduction where I don't have to go 86 00:05:42,575 --> 00:05:46,235 ahead and try to even explain like, you know, who I am or what I do or anything, 87 00:05:46,505 --> 00:05:50,165 just like in Twitter, I just have in my bio, like, I'm just another pleb. 88 00:05:50,315 --> 00:05:51,505 Like, it doesn't really matter. 89 00:05:52,250 --> 00:05:54,430 But yeah, this was just like, you know, a small nuance that 90 00:05:54,430 --> 00:05:55,550 I wanted to throw out there. 91 00:05:55,550 --> 00:05:58,810 Like, if, you know, Luke would be asking me to introduce myself. 92 00:05:59,743 --> 00:06:05,078 Yeah, there's, there's been and forth, like people in Bitcoin have different 93 00:06:05,078 --> 00:06:09,023 opinions on The role of the ego. 94 00:06:09,183 --> 00:06:12,043 So some people want us to drop our egos completely. 95 00:06:12,353 --> 00:06:17,502 And there's a, there's a very good reason for doing that because most of 96 00:06:17,502 --> 00:06:22,342 the time your ego is what's actually hindering you from getting ahead in life. 97 00:06:22,722 --> 00:06:27,052 Like being shy is just as much of an ego thing as being. 98 00:06:27,674 --> 00:06:32,634 narcissistic in a way, because if you're shy, that's also a vanity thing. 99 00:06:32,724 --> 00:06:38,984 Like you're not giving the world the parts of you that you could give away. 100 00:06:38,994 --> 00:06:41,284 Like you could, you could be more open. 101 00:06:41,284 --> 00:06:42,164 You could be more. 102 00:06:42,564 --> 00:06:45,164 But for, for egotistical reasons, you're not. 103 00:06:45,184 --> 00:06:49,474 So, so I think like, uh, there's more to dropping your ego than 104 00:06:49,474 --> 00:06:51,184 just not being a narcissist. 105 00:06:52,458 --> 00:06:55,948 um, then, then you have people like Svetsky, for instance, arguing 106 00:06:55,948 --> 00:06:57,948 for that ego is a very good thing. 107 00:06:57,988 --> 00:07:02,128 And it's a, it's a powerful force in people and it should 108 00:07:02,138 --> 00:07:03,878 be embraced rather than dropped. 109 00:07:03,908 --> 00:07:06,808 So what, what are your views on ego in general? 110 00:07:07,684 --> 00:07:09,204 I mean, that's a very good question. 111 00:07:09,224 --> 00:07:12,254 And I mean, I kind of totally understand both points of view. 112 00:07:12,464 --> 00:07:19,804 Um, like it's, at least for me personally, I try to totally exactly like kill my ego 113 00:07:19,804 --> 00:07:25,084 every now and then, uh, because I feel like it makes me think a bit more clear. 114 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:30,829 Like, I mean, maybe this is a good segue to, to kind of like the, the topic 115 00:07:30,849 --> 00:07:34,069 of, you know, human relationships and like, you know, how our brains work. 116 00:07:34,619 --> 00:07:42,979 Uh, but at least in my opinion, ego is kind of like a part of the automatic self. 117 00:07:43,139 --> 00:07:47,639 So there's this book, uh, that I might have mentioned to you guys 118 00:07:47,639 --> 00:07:49,569 before thinking fast and slow. 119 00:07:50,014 --> 00:07:55,467 Which is really, really, really, like, worth reading, but it basically gives 120 00:07:55,507 --> 00:07:59,827 out this, like, idea, or at least how I took it was that it's not really 121 00:07:59,827 --> 00:08:03,437 about, like, you know, humans being fully conscious or, like, 100 percent 122 00:08:03,447 --> 00:08:08,757 all the time there, it's that it's, We have just a glimpse of consciousness and 123 00:08:08,767 --> 00:08:13,717 majority of our time, majority of our actions and our day basically goes just 124 00:08:13,717 --> 00:08:17,107 like through automation, just through our habits, just like with animals. 125 00:08:17,457 --> 00:08:20,987 There's just these, let's say like 5 percent of the time we get this 126 00:08:21,007 --> 00:08:23,597 glimpse of consciousness where we actually think of like, you know, 127 00:08:23,597 --> 00:08:27,957 what, like we can think back or, uh, like look forward or, or whatever. 128 00:08:28,467 --> 00:08:29,467 Uh, I kind of feel like. 129 00:08:30,307 --> 00:08:34,497 Well, ego is a bit more of those, like, automation related things. 130 00:08:34,897 --> 00:08:40,629 It's kind of, you are building up this, like, small story of yourself and what 131 00:08:40,649 --> 00:08:42,729 you are and what you do over here. 132 00:08:43,209 --> 00:08:47,569 And, I mean, you can think of it consciously, too, but it's just 133 00:08:47,579 --> 00:08:51,649 something that, like, automation basically, like, activates the ego 134 00:08:51,909 --> 00:08:55,829 and pushes you to move into certain directions or make certain decisions. 135 00:08:56,799 --> 00:08:58,519 And I think it is important. 136 00:08:59,052 --> 00:09:05,032 but I myself personally, like I would, I would want to focus on just the like 137 00:09:05,032 --> 00:09:08,072 cognitive side and actually thinking things through without like, you 138 00:09:08,072 --> 00:09:12,652 know, just the personal lens of mine, which of course is important too, but 139 00:09:13,123 --> 00:09:17,853 Yeah, it's a hard, it's a hard thing to do though, to be as objective as possible. 140 00:09:18,468 --> 00:09:25,168 But I guess, like, we have minds, all three of us, that like doing 141 00:09:25,168 --> 00:09:30,248 that, I mean, we wouldn't be into mathematics and praxeology and stuff 142 00:09:30,258 --> 00:09:34,278 if we didn't, we wouldn't, we probably wouldn't be bitcoiners, I think 143 00:09:34,278 --> 00:09:40,328 that's sort of prerequisite, uh, for Mo for, for real Bitcoin curiosity. 144 00:09:40,328 --> 00:09:41,589 Uh, at least, Yeah. 145 00:09:42,369 --> 00:09:43,539 Dan Daniel Kahneman. 146 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,779 Was that the guy, Daniel Kahneman? 147 00:09:46,779 --> 00:09:49,059 Was that the, the, uh, the guy who wrote the book? 148 00:09:49,059 --> 00:09:49,359 Right? 149 00:09:50,099 --> 00:09:53,429 I, I think I read half that book, but it was a long, long time ago. 150 00:09:54,044 --> 00:09:57,489 So, uh, uh, I'll have to reread it sometime. 151 00:09:57,907 --> 00:10:02,457 yeah, and it's also kind of like hard to read or I mean, I, I tend to listen to it 152 00:10:02,457 --> 00:10:05,847 like in, you know, audio books, but that book was something where I actually had 153 00:10:05,847 --> 00:10:09,817 to take like a pen and paper and like, you know, write some things and numbers down. 154 00:10:09,817 --> 00:10:11,197 So I actually understand the. 155 00:10:11,197 --> 00:10:11,512 Yeah. 156 00:10:11,592 --> 00:10:16,262 The examples and, you know, things that the book had over there, but it's to me, 157 00:10:16,262 --> 00:10:20,602 at least it's definitely like one of the most powerful books that I've read, like 158 00:10:20,642 --> 00:10:25,632 understanding human biases and what we're kind of like, you know, like programmed 159 00:10:25,642 --> 00:10:28,822 to do as just another life form. 160 00:10:29,621 --> 00:10:31,891 you just give us, tell us more about that? 161 00:10:31,901 --> 00:10:33,981 Like, more about what you learned there? 162 00:10:34,377 --> 00:10:39,899 So, um, I mean, the book is about basically, well, at least how I took it. 163 00:10:40,579 --> 00:10:43,809 I mean, many people seem to have a little bit different ideas about, like, what 164 00:10:43,809 --> 00:10:44,999 the book is trying to say over there. 165 00:10:45,424 --> 00:10:50,194 Uh, but at least to me, it's kind of like, you know, uh, acknowledging how there is 166 00:10:50,194 --> 00:10:54,124 basically like two selves in our heads. 167 00:10:54,214 --> 00:10:58,534 Uh, you know, like there's the, the automated self, which is basically 168 00:10:58,534 --> 00:11:02,704 like, you know, just animal instincts and like emotions and just reactions. 169 00:11:03,269 --> 00:11:07,209 And then there is like exactly this, like, you know, smaller cognitive 170 00:11:07,209 --> 00:11:11,019 side, like, and it's kind of like the one that can actually think, you 171 00:11:11,019 --> 00:11:13,989 know, in the past, and it can look into the future, look into the, like, 172 00:11:13,989 --> 00:11:16,169 the current situation and everything. 173 00:11:16,519 --> 00:11:21,129 It's the one that kind of like, the most people seem to be thinking 174 00:11:21,129 --> 00:11:23,039 that that's their own, like, self. 175 00:11:23,791 --> 00:11:27,291 uh, but it's like the book is basically saying that, you know, for a majority 176 00:11:27,291 --> 00:11:31,381 of the things that you're doing, uh, throughout the day, it's not really that 177 00:11:31,391 --> 00:11:34,471 you have cognitively decided to do so. 178 00:11:34,581 --> 00:11:38,811 Like, for example, if I smoke a cigarette, majority of the time, it's just automated. 179 00:11:38,811 --> 00:11:40,541 Like, it's something that triggered me. 180 00:11:40,846 --> 00:11:43,596 Like, you know, to actually do the move of like reaching out 181 00:11:43,596 --> 00:11:45,716 to my pocket and grabbing a cigarette or something like that. 182 00:11:46,006 --> 00:11:48,986 And I kind of realized it only after I'm halfway through the cigarette, 183 00:11:48,986 --> 00:11:50,356 like, why am I smoking this? 184 00:11:50,356 --> 00:11:51,266 Like, how did this happen? 185 00:11:51,726 --> 00:11:55,766 You know, like I am, let's say like, you know, running, um, like driving 186 00:11:55,766 --> 00:11:59,686 in, in traffic or like, you know, with the car, that's usually something 187 00:11:59,686 --> 00:12:04,016 also that first, when it's a new thing to you, you have to activate your 188 00:12:04,026 --> 00:12:07,296 cognitive side to actually remember, like, you know, how do you drive a car? 189 00:12:07,296 --> 00:12:09,496 Like, especially if it has like, you know, shifts and everything. 190 00:12:09,846 --> 00:12:13,496 Like, that's very cumbersome and, like, it takes a lot of energy. 191 00:12:13,766 --> 00:12:17,676 So we try to save this cognitive side and not use it for the most of the time. 192 00:12:17,906 --> 00:12:21,926 We try to always, like, use it as, like, you know, little as possible and then 193 00:12:21,976 --> 00:12:24,056 pass the task to the automated side. 194 00:12:24,386 --> 00:12:28,196 So, for example, with a car, we have probably all been in there, 195 00:12:28,216 --> 00:12:30,876 like, you know, seen or felt the situation where you're driving. 196 00:12:31,136 --> 00:12:34,744 You go through, like, uh, some kind of traffic lights or something. 197 00:12:35,369 --> 00:12:38,409 You pass them, but you wonder after that, like, was it even green? 198 00:12:38,409 --> 00:12:40,538 Like, what was the color of that? 199 00:12:40,539 --> 00:12:43,579 Like, you know, it's just your automation basically handled 200 00:12:43,579 --> 00:12:46,969 that task and your cognitive side never had to even like wake up. 201 00:12:47,707 --> 00:12:52,419 but yeah, it also kind of like talks about how there is a lot of these like 202 00:12:52,429 --> 00:12:54,999 biases basically like built into us. 203 00:12:54,999 --> 00:12:58,889 Like, you know, of course we have all kinds of like confirmation biases. 204 00:12:58,889 --> 00:13:02,559 We don't want to, or like, it's easier for us to try to look for 205 00:13:02,569 --> 00:13:04,199 information that kind of like, you know. 206 00:13:04,930 --> 00:13:09,790 Confirms our expectations, our thoughts, our wants than to actually see it like, 207 00:13:09,790 --> 00:13:14,650 you know, very realistically, all the actual research and, you know, the 208 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:16,390 things also pointing how we are wrong. 209 00:13:17,277 --> 00:13:21,247 yeah, I think you'd just love our episode with Volker Herminghaus 210 00:13:21,257 --> 00:13:22,757 from a couple of weeks back. 211 00:13:22,872 --> 00:13:27,392 It's about consciousness and free will, and if we have it or not, and like, 212 00:13:27,402 --> 00:13:32,957 where does it come from, and how we can't really It can't really be our 213 00:13:32,957 --> 00:13:38,467 conscious side of the brain that has the free will, because it has a delay of 0. 214 00:13:38,597 --> 00:13:39,997 3 seconds. 215 00:13:40,387 --> 00:13:43,187 So when you think you're making a decision, the decision has 216 00:13:43,207 --> 00:13:49,392 already been made for you by your brain, like, before you Before 217 00:13:49,392 --> 00:13:51,572 you consciously make the decision. 218 00:13:51,672 --> 00:13:52,932 So where is the decision? 219 00:13:52,982 --> 00:13:55,132 And how could the decision even be made? 220 00:13:55,132 --> 00:14:00,862 Like, wouldn't the synapses have to go back and forth in time in order for there 221 00:14:00,862 --> 00:14:02,752 to actually be such a thing as free will? 222 00:14:03,112 --> 00:14:05,722 So yeah, very interesting topics indeed. 223 00:14:06,712 --> 00:14:07,022 Yeah. 224 00:14:07,022 --> 00:14:10,472 And that's the thing, like, the free will part is also something 225 00:14:10,472 --> 00:14:11,942 that the book touches a bit. 226 00:14:11,952 --> 00:14:12,242 So. 227 00:14:12,592 --> 00:14:16,932 Like, it's exactly saying how these two different parts of your brain, it's not 228 00:14:16,932 --> 00:14:20,282 exactly like parts, but let's just say like, you know, two different personas 229 00:14:20,282 --> 00:14:23,632 in your head or something like that, the automated and the cognitive one, they have 230 00:14:23,662 --> 00:14:25,602 totally different opinions about things. 231 00:14:25,932 --> 00:14:31,187 Like, I mean, I'm just kind of like putting it out in this way, but like, 232 00:14:31,187 --> 00:14:34,397 for example, you know, your cognitive side is probably the one who's 233 00:14:34,397 --> 00:14:37,357 actually thinking of like, okay, I should go ahead and start working out. 234 00:14:37,377 --> 00:14:41,497 And, you know, like, I should eat better or, or whatever, but it's like, you know, 235 00:14:41,937 --> 00:14:43,977 that's cognitive side is not that strong. 236 00:14:43,977 --> 00:14:45,557 It's not that active all the time. 237 00:14:45,817 --> 00:14:49,467 And majority of the time you go with the automation and the automation is lazy. 238 00:14:49,767 --> 00:14:50,747 Like, I mean, it's. 239 00:14:50,748 --> 00:14:51,022 Yeah. 240 00:14:51,232 --> 00:14:54,932 It also just goes, you know, doesn't want to go to a gym and doesn't 241 00:14:54,962 --> 00:14:56,492 just want to order some burgers. 242 00:14:57,861 --> 00:15:01,851 It's kind of two, two totally different personas that are fighting inside 243 00:15:01,851 --> 00:15:06,121 your head, like, you know, for like, and wanting totally different things. 244 00:15:06,121 --> 00:15:09,877 Yeah, this is so cool that you brought this up, because this is actually 245 00:15:10,502 --> 00:15:14,472 A part of a chapter for a new book I'm writing at the time, and the 246 00:15:14,482 --> 00:15:16,122 chapter is called Mind Over Matter. 247 00:15:16,532 --> 00:15:21,342 And the first thing that comes to mind, before diving into that, is the 248 00:15:22,162 --> 00:15:25,922 impression of a Donald Duck cartoon, where there's an angel Donald Duck and 249 00:15:25,923 --> 00:15:28,352 a devil Donald Duck above his head. 250 00:15:28,472 --> 00:15:30,362 And they're having an argument of what to do. 251 00:15:30,842 --> 00:15:35,012 And I guess the angel side is the more thinking side, and the 252 00:15:35,012 --> 00:15:36,582 devil side is just the impulse. 253 00:15:37,162 --> 00:15:39,902 Side that wants to do, wants to have that extra cigarette 254 00:15:39,912 --> 00:15:41,142 and not do the push ups, right? 255 00:15:41,612 --> 00:15:46,902 So, so, and I think that's why that works so well, because it's a perfect metaphor. 256 00:15:46,902 --> 00:15:49,892 It feels like a dichotomy, it feels like two different sides of 257 00:15:49,892 --> 00:15:52,822 yourself, but, but you're both Dr. 258 00:15:52,822 --> 00:15:53,522 Jekyll and Mr. 259 00:15:53,522 --> 00:15:57,911 Hyde, you aren't just one aspect of it, And the thing, the thing with the 260 00:15:58,731 --> 00:16:02,541 There's so much here, we've had some great conversations on the show about 261 00:16:02,551 --> 00:16:07,841 how, to which extent the mind creates reality and stuff, I don't know if you 262 00:16:07,841 --> 00:16:15,861 heard that, but like about you choose to focus on becomes your actual subjective 263 00:16:15,861 --> 00:16:21,531 reality, like the example Jeff Boothgay was, if you're in a crowded room and 264 00:16:21,531 --> 00:16:27,551 someone even whispers your name, your attention instantly focuses on that. 265 00:16:27,941 --> 00:16:32,691 Uh, voice that just whispered your name and all of the other parts 266 00:16:32,701 --> 00:16:37,801 of the conversation going on in the party is just white noise, but 267 00:16:37,801 --> 00:16:41,541 you hear this one signal perfectly clear because you're focused on it. 268 00:16:42,271 --> 00:16:47,111 So focus and attention creates reality to a much larger extent than we expect. 269 00:16:47,211 --> 00:16:49,931 And what is objective reality? 270 00:16:49,931 --> 00:16:55,156 It's just where our memes collide and where, where these consciousnesses Crash 271 00:16:55,156 --> 00:17:00,206 into one another, and if you take, like, theory of relativity into that, and, 272 00:17:00,926 --> 00:17:06,036 you know, time space, and time being relative to, uh, to what speed you 273 00:17:06,046 --> 00:17:10,946 have throughout, through the universe and stuff, Uh, and it's everything 274 00:17:10,946 --> 00:17:16,106 being points on a 4D plane, and, like, is linear time even a real thing? 275 00:17:16,992 --> 00:17:22,222 and then bake in some quantum mechanics and you know, these, um, particles that 276 00:17:22,222 --> 00:17:28,872 have entanglement through space and through time, uh, could particles, they at 277 00:17:28,872 --> 00:17:34,152 least suspect that they're, uh, um, from what I know that they're entangled through 278 00:17:34,152 --> 00:17:36,762 time and also, and not only through space. 279 00:17:37,442 --> 00:17:39,482 So could that have something to do with free will? 280 00:17:40,372 --> 00:17:43,052 That, that a thought can actually go back in time? 281 00:17:43,752 --> 00:17:45,942 I don't know, but I, I love the subject. 282 00:17:46,853 --> 00:17:47,183 Okay. 283 00:17:47,183 --> 00:17:47,663 Yeah. 284 00:17:47,893 --> 00:17:48,463 I have an opinion. 285 00:17:48,473 --> 00:17:51,403 Like, yeah, I should definitely, uh, like read more about this 286 00:17:51,443 --> 00:17:52,953 kind of, you know, topics, 287 00:17:53,018 --> 00:17:53,983 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 288 00:17:54,163 --> 00:17:56,293 I can recommend a couple of things after the show. 289 00:19:05,271 --> 00:19:09,771 yeah, I, uh, I mentioned that, um, you know, space time and the, one of the 290 00:19:09,771 --> 00:19:11,601 points on your list here is Einstein. 291 00:19:11,601 --> 00:19:14,511 So what did, what did you want to talk about about Einstein? 292 00:19:15,331 --> 00:19:15,891 Oh, okay. 293 00:19:15,891 --> 00:19:20,581 So, I mean, we have to go a little bit back, maybe like now a lot, like we'll 294 00:19:20,581 --> 00:19:25,201 get to Einstein maybe a bit, a bit later now, but I kind of wanted to challenge 295 00:19:25,201 --> 00:19:29,611 you guys because I heard that you, you guys are kind of like both, um, you know, 296 00:19:29,611 --> 00:19:31,611 like pro kids and pro family, right? 297 00:19:33,121 --> 00:19:35,851 Um, yeah, we both have 298 00:19:36,761 --> 00:19:37,381 Yeah, yeah, 299 00:19:37,381 --> 00:19:38,071 families. 300 00:19:38,076 --> 00:19:38,401 Yeah. 301 00:19:39,261 --> 00:19:42,651 yeah, like, and in our last episode, we basically, like, you know, very much 302 00:19:42,651 --> 00:19:47,191 agreed on the foolishness of, well, like, you know, a lot of the religious stuff 303 00:19:47,191 --> 00:19:50,811 and everything, and I thought that maybe, like, this is something that we can 304 00:19:50,811 --> 00:19:55,721 actually, like, debate a little bit about, and this is just, like, really, really 305 00:19:55,961 --> 00:20:00,561 difficult topic to talk about, because everyone who's going to say or would say 306 00:20:00,561 --> 00:20:04,121 the things that I'm going to be saying can be seen as, you know, like, very 307 00:20:04,681 --> 00:20:11,096 asshole, because My point is basically like, you know, that I, I'm not saying 308 00:20:11,096 --> 00:20:15,226 that people should not have families or girlfriends or like, you know, a very, 309 00:20:15,266 --> 00:20:17,436 like, you know, nice kids and everything. 310 00:20:19,146 --> 00:20:25,316 I just think that for a majority of the cases, it's just a stupid accident. 311 00:20:25,801 --> 00:20:32,961 And it's just that we have exactly that weird confirmation bias where it's so 312 00:20:32,961 --> 00:20:38,071 difficult for us to kind of, you know, like, admit when we've done something, 313 00:20:38,431 --> 00:20:42,841 let's say, not that smart, and we're kind of stuck with our, like, you 314 00:20:42,841 --> 00:20:47,291 know, stupid, like, maybe automation, uh, like, you know, based decisions. 315 00:20:48,041 --> 00:20:51,991 So, like, I'm not saying that, you know, all kids that are out there, all 316 00:20:52,001 --> 00:20:57,101 families are made by, like, you know, like, that is a result of foolishness. 317 00:20:57,491 --> 00:21:02,921 No, I'm just saying that just like, for example, you know, for beavers, 318 00:21:03,091 --> 00:21:07,741 it's like a hard coded thing for them to go ahead and build dams. 319 00:21:08,036 --> 00:21:11,906 For example, it's not something that their mom teaches them or something like that. 320 00:21:11,906 --> 00:21:16,316 No, you can take a baby beaver out of the, you know, like the mom beaver right away. 321 00:21:16,316 --> 00:21:17,286 When it gets born, 322 00:21:17,571 --> 00:21:18,351 out to the mom. 323 00:21:18,396 --> 00:21:18,966 like a house. 324 00:21:20,221 --> 00:21:20,851 out to the mom. 325 00:21:20,856 --> 00:21:21,871 Beaver's, beaver, you mean? 326 00:21:21,921 --> 00:21:24,351 Yeah. 327 00:21:24,601 --> 00:21:27,611 like, you know, the beaver will start actually like, you know, gathering up 328 00:21:27,611 --> 00:21:31,711 some like toys, uh, like kid toys and starting to put them in the hallways. 329 00:21:31,731 --> 00:21:34,201 And even the beaver itself seems to be confused of like, 330 00:21:34,201 --> 00:21:35,281 why the fuck am I doing this? 331 00:21:35,881 --> 00:21:39,771 But like, in the same way that the beaver has these, you know, like maybe hard 332 00:21:39,811 --> 00:21:42,031 coded things, uh, features in its genes. 333 00:21:42,471 --> 00:21:47,261 We, of course, as humans, just like with beavers too, we have basically the, like 334 00:21:47,261 --> 00:21:49,281 the hard coded feature of reproduction. 335 00:21:50,101 --> 00:21:50,921 So like, yeah. 336 00:21:51,181 --> 00:21:56,731 Any life form out there, like, either they will have to become immortal or be 337 00:21:56,741 --> 00:22:00,841 immortal, or they will have to learn to reproduce, or they will cease to exist. 338 00:22:01,891 --> 00:22:06,781 So, you know, like, for us, for example, wanting to have a family or wanting to 339 00:22:06,781 --> 00:22:12,441 have kids, it's not really a cognitively rational decision for most of the cases. 340 00:22:12,841 --> 00:22:15,411 It's, it's just like automation. 341 00:22:15,911 --> 00:22:20,881 And at least from my experience, going with your automation and your 342 00:22:20,881 --> 00:22:24,491 emotions into these kind of like big decisions, like, for example, like, 343 00:22:24,491 --> 00:22:29,911 you know, forming a relationship or having kids that has probably caused 344 00:22:29,931 --> 00:22:32,221 like more problems than actual benefits. 345 00:22:32,581 --> 00:22:37,021 Uh, like, so what I'm trying to say here is that people should, should 346 00:22:37,021 --> 00:22:39,781 kind of be aware of these hard coded. 347 00:22:40,491 --> 00:22:46,111 Like, you know, features, uh, in our genes, basically, to try to reproduce, but 348 00:22:46,121 --> 00:22:49,411 how it's just another emotion out there. 349 00:22:51,391 --> 00:22:53,581 Yeah, maybe I'll, I'll start with that one. 350 00:22:54,001 --> 00:22:56,791 Uh, we'll get into like, probably like deeper parts of this. 351 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:57,901 Exactly. 352 00:22:58,001 --> 00:23:02,181 there's a word for that before, for the morality of not having kids. 353 00:23:02,241 --> 00:23:10,001 Like the, there's a, uh, a philosophical ethical case for, for not reproducing. 354 00:23:10,081 --> 00:23:15,111 And it's from this really kind of dark and depressing school of thought 355 00:23:15,141 --> 00:23:20,101 where, where, where you admit to yourself and everyone else that life 356 00:23:20,141 --> 00:23:22,471 is more suffering than it is happiness. 357 00:23:23,321 --> 00:23:29,241 Basically, and that everyone's, everyone's final days will probably suck more 358 00:23:29,241 --> 00:23:32,011 than, it'll probably not be worth it. 359 00:23:32,021 --> 00:23:35,671 That's the, as far as I understand it, this is the premise of that 360 00:23:36,221 --> 00:23:41,071 worldview, that the pain of death is definitely not worth it. 361 00:23:41,611 --> 00:23:42,171 Um. 362 00:23:42,461 --> 00:23:46,741 Especially not if you take this relativistic time into the equation 363 00:23:46,741 --> 00:23:50,111 and everything exists everywhere at once and stuff, so, yeah. 364 00:23:50,581 --> 00:23:53,381 Then again, uh, free will and stuff, and we can't stop it 365 00:23:53,411 --> 00:23:54,581 because it was an instinct. 366 00:23:54,971 --> 00:23:59,041 And, uh, we're, we're stuck with it so we better do the best we can with it. 367 00:23:59,141 --> 00:24:04,024 Uh, I don't know, uh I mean, I think these things are worth 368 00:24:04,194 --> 00:24:05,654 thinking about, definitely. 369 00:24:05,714 --> 00:24:09,474 And, uh, I think there's certainly, I think every parent thinks that 370 00:24:09,514 --> 00:24:13,704 there's a certain aspect of kids being the, just a sexual hangover. 371 00:24:13,954 --> 00:24:18,319 And maybe, like when you get, when you get the kid, first kid. 372 00:24:18,709 --> 00:24:24,899 You very quickly realize that, holy shit, I've made a move that I can't take back. 373 00:24:24,939 --> 00:24:29,669 I've done something that is very, very, much more irreversible than any 374 00:24:29,669 --> 00:24:31,119 other decision I've made in my life. 375 00:24:31,189 --> 00:24:35,738 Like, like everything else you can just apologize for and try to forget about. 376 00:24:35,788 --> 00:24:38,558 Like, but this one is hard to reverse. 377 00:24:38,958 --> 00:24:41,688 But that's also, also the beauty of it. 378 00:24:41,818 --> 00:24:49,768 You know, because, like, um, it, to me it makes Uh, well, it's, it 379 00:24:49,768 --> 00:24:51,838 doesn't make life more meaningful. 380 00:24:51,838 --> 00:24:52,498 That's bullshit. 381 00:24:52,498 --> 00:25:01,008 But it does, uh, it does give, uh, it, it does give you a, uh, person 382 00:25:01,038 --> 00:25:04,878 to give the existential baton too, so that you don't have to worry about 383 00:25:04,883 --> 00:25:06,288 it anymore, if you know what I mean. 384 00:25:07,498 --> 00:25:09,538 uh, and, and that feels good. 385 00:25:09,598 --> 00:25:10,378 Like, okay. 386 00:25:10,678 --> 00:25:11,068 Yeah. 387 00:25:11,128 --> 00:25:11,428 Yeah. 388 00:25:11,428 --> 00:25:12,688 I haven't figured it out yet. 389 00:25:12,718 --> 00:25:13,228 You do it. 390 00:25:14,013 --> 00:25:15,023 Good luck, bye. 391 00:25:15,563 --> 00:25:22,284 That's sort of And I think that if people were more honest, they would admit that, 392 00:25:22,284 --> 00:25:28,962 that it's a lot about, you know, giving the existential baton to the next on this, 393 00:25:28,978 --> 00:25:29,478 well said. 394 00:25:30,018 --> 00:25:34,158 And just to also clarify, like, I don't have, you know, like this very, 395 00:25:34,168 --> 00:25:37,308 like what you mentioned, you know, the very grim view of, uh, like, you know, 396 00:25:37,318 --> 00:25:40,988 world that you should not create kids because the life is more of suffering. 397 00:25:41,108 --> 00:25:42,478 I mean, that part, I agree. 398 00:25:42,478 --> 00:25:44,168 Life is probably like, you know, in some way. 399 00:25:44,864 --> 00:25:48,424 uh, like the more you're cognitively awake, the more you probably will be 400 00:25:48,454 --> 00:25:50,264 suffering, you know, in the, in the world. 401 00:25:50,654 --> 00:25:54,914 Uh, but like, I don't think like even I, for myself, like currently, you 402 00:25:54,914 --> 00:25:58,524 know, like I am single and I don't have kids, but I have nothing against it. 403 00:25:58,524 --> 00:26:02,274 And I actually still am like, you know, hopeful, romantic, and that I hope that 404 00:26:02,274 --> 00:26:05,984 I actually can find someone like, you know, a good girl that I can, you know, 405 00:26:05,984 --> 00:26:09,354 like be with, and maybe even have kids and actually be happy and all of that. 406 00:26:10,839 --> 00:26:16,809 The likelihood of it is relatively, let's say like pretty low, like just being 407 00:26:16,809 --> 00:26:22,159 a bitcorner itself, kind of like, you know, let's say like makes the amount 408 00:26:22,159 --> 00:26:26,699 of possible girls who can actually like, you know, accept you as you are, uh, 409 00:26:26,709 --> 00:26:32,709 like it makes it like smaller, um, plus all the other stuff, of course, but, 410 00:26:32,829 --> 00:26:36,849 uh, like in general, also like exactly, you know, what you said about like 411 00:26:36,859 --> 00:26:38,959 passing the baton to the next person. 412 00:26:39,679 --> 00:26:40,339 That's the thing. 413 00:26:40,349 --> 00:26:40,689 Why? 414 00:26:40,969 --> 00:26:44,699 I'm kind of a little bit disappointed whenever I see, you know, people 415 00:26:44,719 --> 00:26:49,399 saying that the, the main point of life is to have kids, I mean, 416 00:26:50,569 --> 00:26:55,279 could be, but then we get into the questions of like, okay, how many, why? 417 00:26:55,309 --> 00:26:59,389 And, you know, like, there's, there's a lot of things that usually are not 418 00:26:59,389 --> 00:27:04,449 really explainable properly, but like, especially for Bitcoiners and for like, 419 00:27:04,449 --> 00:27:08,619 you know, if we want to be really like fully responsible of our own lives, you 420 00:27:09,039 --> 00:27:13,459 Like, creating kids just because you're kind of like hoping that maybe he will 421 00:27:13,469 --> 00:27:18,449 figure something out and do something great is just very, like, weirdly kind 422 00:27:18,449 --> 00:27:24,919 of like trying to pass the responsibility to others, like, if you really see the 423 00:27:24,919 --> 00:27:31,014 things, you know, how they are and how bad they are, like, Creating, like not working 424 00:27:31,014 --> 00:27:34,884 on them yourself, like kind of going with these like, you know, animal instinct 425 00:27:34,984 --> 00:27:38,244 urges to go ahead and like, you know, fuck whatever moves or, you know, like things 426 00:27:38,244 --> 00:27:44,264 like that and get trapped, basically, like, if you have been like that, you 427 00:27:44,264 --> 00:27:48,742 know, a bit kind of like lazy, you're, you're kind of stuck with that life. 428 00:27:48,742 --> 00:27:53,392 And it's going to be harder for you to actually, you know, do something, 429 00:27:53,392 --> 00:27:54,952 let's say exactly like Einstein. 430 00:27:55,712 --> 00:28:00,502 Like, why I put it out there in the notes is basically exactly that, like, if you 431 00:28:00,532 --> 00:28:04,932 think that you are one of the smartest people out there, or like, especially, 432 00:28:05,482 --> 00:28:09,622 um, like the smartest ones, but even if you think that you are more, like, smarter 433 00:28:09,622 --> 00:28:15,612 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.