Life, Energy, and Entropy | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 4 (WiM140)

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

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 The Scummy Membranes at the Dawn of Life
00:05:10 The Problem with Trust at Scale
00:10:15 Life as Any Open System that Imports Energy and Exports Entropy
00:14:12 Bubbles of Order within the Maelstrom of Nature
00:18:40 The Defensibility of Property and the Sophistication of Civilization
00:21:49 The Species-Level Evolutionary Advantage of Aging
00:25:52 Sexual Reproduction, Death, and the Intensity of Exchange
00:28:59 Self-Awareness Across Time as the Ultimate Survival Strategy
00:30:46 NYDIG
00:31:54 Genetic Information as a River Flowing Through Time
00:34:53 The Danger of Subduing Human Nature…
00:38:14 The Power Projection Game is Ruthlessly Egalitarian
00:40:51 To Trust Incentives is to Reduce the Need for Interpersonal Trust
00:45:05 Nuclear Armament as a 51% Attack on The Global Power Projection Game
00:47:39 An Intra-Speceil Surrogate to War is Necessary for Individual Sovereignty
00:50:44 Proof-of-Work: A Fair Power Projection Competition over Property
00:54:38 “Human in the Loop” as the Limiting Factor in All Future Warfare
00:59:06 The Nuclear-Hardened History of TCP/IP and Protocol Network Effects
01:05:18 The Dynamic Tension Between Centralization and Decentralization

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