This Thursday night's whateverstream will bring some news/updates and upcoming events, and maybe some informal comments on what I've been reading lately. You can now request an invitation to the Discord server here: http://bit.ly/2FuqhkC More below...
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Curtis Yarvin is the author of Gray Mirror https://graymirror.substack.com
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If you'd like to discuss these and similar themes with me and others, you can request an invitation here: http://bit.ly/join-otherlife-via-youtube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XaM6Ee5_Sc
Curtis Yarvin is the author of Gray Mirror https://graymirror.substack.com
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0:00 Intro
1:02 The bubble theory of money
20:24 Crypto & government crackdown
27:26 Building a Bitcoin state
47:21 El Salvador & getting serious about crypto governance
52:15 The Curtis Yarvin perspective on NFTs
56:52 DAO optimization
1:10:20 Closing words
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-PqCxvGq0M
The semester is about over so I'm going to post a daily vlog for as long as I can. This one is about my new favorite method for intellectual generation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZ21HPmdsg
Ellie Hain and Joe Edelman are itinerant thinkers designing a new kind of social movement. We discuss what they've learned from Charles Taylor and Amartya Sen, why Effective Altruism can be so cringe, Joe's role building Couchsurfing.com, and much more.
Ellie Hain: https://twitter.com/ellie__hain
Joe Edelman: https://twitter.com/edelwax
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0:00 Intro
1:03 Why Effective Altruists are cringe paperclip maximizers
3:44 Charles Taylor's takedown of utilitarianism
5:55 The market of meaning
8:11 Measuring meaning
15:11 Meaningful conviviality & the P2P economy
16:56 Bypassing market instrumentality
22:38 Purposeful communities
24:24 Social imaginary
27:34 What the "sense-making" community gets wrong
31:59 Reactionary traditionalism
37:28 Closing words
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAHFMsZMKSA