Crazy Wisdom

Justin is the Principal Materials and Manufacturing Engineer at Ursa Major Technologies and used to run materials at SpaceX Questions we cover on the show: Is it possible to 3D print engines or motors using additive manufacturing with metal? Do those engines/motors have different design constraints? What time frame would it be until a consumer/tinkerer could get their hands on something affordable that could help them build motors/engines at their house? What is the impact of AI on the design process for additive manufacturing? Who are some other people I should interview in the space to get an idea of where this is headed? Ursa major exists because of 3D printing Shortens the window Will this change the automotive industry? Will 3D printing ever challenge traditional manufacturing? Powdered fusion How many other companies have been created What is a thrust chamber? What are the key components to a rocket? What are the downsides to making 3D parts? Are those downsides changing with material sciences? What is the future of space mining and are we going to get there? How much is a metal 3D printer? How is all of this going to change China’s future? Is china keeping up with the US in terms of 3d printing? What is going to happen with Germany? What about asteroid mining? Does Ursa Major What does it mean to have a high capacity, low launch cost? Falcon engine is heavy Dragon capsule is the only returnable part of the engine What is your optimism or pessimism for humans conquering the solar system? What are the industries that are outside of satellites? How do you find the problems that AI is good at solving? Why did you get into this? What do the manufacturing What is the percentage of parts of a rocket that are off the shelf? What are the major innovations in materials development? New alloys Tailoring alloys to specific needs What is the future of manufacturing? How has AI changed tailoring alloys? What are the jobs of the engineer that will be AI’ed out? What is the role of craftmanship as AI changes things? How is titanium helping medical additive manufacturing? What is directed energy deposition (DED)? Wire fed DED CNC plasma Powered bed binder jet Ceramic sand How far away are we from a star trek future where we can print anything?

What is a Maker Space? What is a Skill Share? Are cars more plastic than metal? How can you create more intimate realtionships with everything in your life? What is Upcycling? What is Cooperative Community Development? Is local always better? Is efficiency the bottom line? What is a Fila-bot?

My pseudoanonymous guest here today is ~Pilwyc-Fastec, you can find him on Urbit by that name spelled out Urbit is the right OS to build the future of the smart home. What is a smart home? What does it mean to shift around time? How did the mainframe build the modern smart home infrastructure? How can we share time on devices with others in a home in an intelligent way? What was the grant process like for Urbit? What is identity? Peer to peer versus server to client What does it mean to codify reputation? What is the difference between reputation and identity? What is the human way of doing reputation? What is the antifragile nature of reputation? What is preferential attachment? What is an engagement loop? What is calm technology? Are client-server relationships more promotive of engagement loops? What is a group recommender system? What is the relationship between AI and Urbit? How will Urbit integrate with artificiall intelligence? What does it mean to reduce error for AI? Is that all it is? What is the relationship with business decisions and the effectiveness of artificial intelligence? What is a pace layer? Why does technology over-complicate things and then decomplicate them? What is an edge device?

Follow @losMapMaker on Twitter He is a Metaphysical spice¹ trader. Cyclical time cartographer. Exotic information imports What happened between Socrates and now? What is cyclical time versus linear time? What have you learned from the fourth turning? Why is it that somethings outside the realm of science that are also predictive? Why does science think that it is predictive when it isnt always (rona)? Does the 4th turning have any connection with vedic astrology? Who are some famous mathemeticians and physicists that also use astrology? What is the relationship between science/tech and aquarius energy? What are some charectirisitcs of pisces thought? What is aquarius? How does nature distribute information efficiently? How is efficiency fractal? Is it a dark age or golden age right now? It depends on the context For some people it will be a dark age, parrticularly people who cling to the pisces energy What was plato’s biggest contribution to the way that we see the world? A perfect god, makes it necessary to be an omnibeing, an object that can exhibit no change Is aquarius energy nonlinear compared to the pisces energy? What is the god of the aquarius age? A decentralized god What is the difference between a theory of a centralized god versus one of a decentrazlied god? What is the result of the eastern and western philosophies clash that is happening because of the internet and postmodernity? Why did the hebrews/jesus, ultimately get shoehorned into greek/roman philosophy? What is telos? What is platonic perfection? Where did the concept of lived experience come from? Why is the ontological interpretation often wrong? What is narrative reincarnation? Who is ernest becker? https://www.youtube.com/TheConchRepublic1513AD

Wade Townsend When did you get into playing poker? What is negotiation when it comes to draft for baseball? What is Tommy John surgery? What pitcher surgeries are common? What is your degree in? What countries did you play poker tournaments in? What is the bureaucracy involved with baseball? Was it the coaches or the employees in professional baseball? What is the difference between traveling for fun vs. traveling for a goal? Why is the difference between being sincere and being serious? Why is 90% of humanity deceptive? How do you assume responsibility for existence? Why does the Catholic Church make Latin America resistant to mind-viruses? What is the concept of self-evidence? How do you define God? What is the meaning of words? What about neutering dogs? Who is Bob Barker in relationship to dogs? Why did you live in Cabo San Lucas? What did Ithe United States make illegal in 2011? When did you get abducted in Colombia? Why is it important to let go of fake friends? Coming to our senses book. How do mammals signal differently than other animals? How do you find the Goldilocks when seeking information about problems that you have? Why is there so much bullshitting in academia? What is a good Gnostic Bible? Gospel of Thomas Did you get attached to cosmic consciousness? How is it better? What got you into Wittgenstein? How?

Aaron Lowry How to build? What does software do for helping us to customize our physical creations? Where is our awareness focused? Why does it focus there? How does it focus there? How does 3D engineering work? How do you find the most important constraints that are the obstacles in your way? How do you focus? What are the properties of thermal expansion? What should I understand about physics as a novice builder? What are geotelematics? (10 minutes in) What would be the best way to track all of the items at my airbnb? What is threat detection and how did you learn about it? Will hardware manufacturing come down in price soon? What is network infrastructure? What are the most important things to knoow about self-reliance and self-sufficiency? What is different about the western US and how did it contribute to the development of blockchain and bitcoin? What is ‘code is law’? Why is it important to trust 3rd parties less in our current age? Trust is the lubricant that creates positive human interaction Maybe impossible to overstate the value of trust The invisible infrastructure of trust What is the reserve banking system? Where do we find ourselves today? cultural, political and economic institutions Trust is explicit for all these vast numbers of people People are habituated to the convenience of high trust but we now might be in a low trust meta environment How do you play the long game when everyone else is playing the short game or the evil game? How do you establish institutions so that long games can be freely played? How did so many unelected people get so much power in the United States? What is the ideal way of promoting and giving community resources to the community? How do bureaucracies destroy transparency and accountability in the United States? Were politicians ever not actors? What are the subtle effects of living in urban, suburban, and rural environments? Why do I hate hyperspecialization so much? What have you been 3D printing? How do we ground our roles in reality rather than complete performance? What is the best way to operate and why is it always in “the truth”? Why do so many people refuse to find feedback mechanisms (40 minutes)? What separates people who want to build worlds and consume worlds? How can you deliver feedback to someone who both wants it and does not want it at the same time? What do you know about entropy and what is its connection to purpose? What is the difference between maintenance and building? Why are some people compelled to progress? How do you master tools and materials in order to build in-flow? Why are mountain and rural people so practical? How does that influence their philosophy? What is trim carpentry? What is the difference between carpentry and house building? What are the constraints for building houses? What are all the differences between all the woods? What is the environment you are building the house in? What are the constraints of the materials What is my soil composition? How do you anchor things into the ground? What is pressure treated lumbar? What is a skid lower? What is rammed earth? What is the easiest place to build something in the United States in regards to permitting? What is the water situation in Wyoming? Water is the new gold and artificial constraints will make it insane What is the value of energy? How do we determine a viable versus a negative artificial constraint? What is NFT marketplace on Cardano called? @Aaron_Lowry on Twitter

What is dialogue? What is monologue? How do you have dialgoue with your colleagues? And then engagement? How many corporate retreats have you done? What is a corporate retreat? How do you find perfect deals? What is a perfect deal? How do you deal with the stress from early deals? How do you deal with principal agent dilemma of investors? How do you deal with potential for embarassments? Is honor culture neccesary? Why does it show up in human relationships? What is the difference between true inquiry and reputational status building activity? How do you deal with the necessity of being an asshole? Man is a political animal, there is no apolitical. Who is someone you know that you know that you still find mysterious? Why do people have conversations? What do you do about the possibility of surprise? Conversation as a dance; what is the music that you are dancing to? What is the logos? What is the relationship between logos and revelation?What is Poesis? Can a muse be anything? What is a poetic disclosure? What is Plato’s phaedrus? Arate (skill or excellence) and aristeia (best game ever while he had the flu). What is the difference between Daemon and Spirit? What are your thoughts on the thing you just said and how AI will interact with it? Contemporary thought versus super power daemons. How do you make yourself ready to have God move through you? How do you work with ethical tightropes when ethics themselves are not respected by most people? How do you cultivate flow?What do you think about secularism? Animals don’t have type 2 thinking. What is an Emu’s algorithims?Why do I feel nervous about being a Stewart algorithm? How do substances help us unravel and put back together our unconscious? What is your thoughts on city versus country? Is Western civilization less paradoxical than the east? What is hippie buddhism? How many hours a day are you reading? Do you put in your calendar? How do you wear a mask without idenifitying the character that the mask portrays? What is the science that has been rejected? https://nintil.com/discoveries-ignored What is science again? What happens when scientists experiment on themselves? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/when-scientists-experiment-on-themselves-h-pylori-and-ulcers/ What is glory? How do you talk about science when you are not a scientist but have studied? What is the difference between scientism and science? What are your invalidated hypothesis that you have discovered in the past year? What do you think of dark ages? Who is Francis Bacon? Who are the scientists that have been ignored in their life but then turned out to be revolutionaries? What is an age of concealment? What is the cult of progress? Who did Jesus rail against?In what ways was Jesus a contrarian? What is the difference between change and progress? What is chronological snobbery? Can you see all of your own blind spots? What are the virtues of medeival thought? What is the different way of funding science? How is science funded? Corporate R&D, venture capital, and government-academic complex for grants. What are teh different ways that corruption shows up? Incredible incrementalism. If the grant complex is so wonderful, then why dont we 10X funding? What is Francis’ approach to funding science? Crowdfunding, find the experiment to validate Philanthropy based prizes What is the spirit of science? How do narcissists use simple statements to manipulate thoughts? Should scietnists be passing laws? What can we call people who believe in Scientism? Paradox has no thearitcal solution. How can you develop paradoxical thinking? What do you believe is true that is absolutely true? There is no way of doing nothing.

Director of developer experience at the Urbit Foundation ~lagrev-nocfep on Urbit @sigilante on twitter What is a sigil? What is the most important thing you’ve learned about teaching? Driven by authoritarian high modernism Top down imposition Structural way of understanding context Industrial revolution Ten years ago there was online education MIT open course where Open up the content to everyone and it will create revolution Introducing a model that the person gets illuminated from Humans are good at metaphors Give them a framework and people will figure it out These things are measurable Open problem in computer science Two classes of complexity Polynomial time Vastly exponentially complicated than things that can be solved in a certain time NP on the hard problems Has to do with the structure of our attention 9 years experience Philosophy of pedagogy Why doesn’t it make it easy to open up knowledge? How do you make something relevant? Strongly in favor of hyper individualist approach to teaching Interdisciplinary Try everything, some things stick Analogical reasoning How do you improvise for metaphors? Why is it so disincentivized to do improv? Input output model doesn’t quite work because the context is so vast The model of the areas of learning is helpful but not 100% accurate Tutorial method does not scale but its the most effective Really hard problem P=NP what is it? When I’m working on a particular mode, gumption traps, energy sinks, takes a lot of agency to activate yourself out of the state Rumsfeld called the unknown unknowns What questions do you have? Is a better question than What are your questions? What do you do when you need to solve a problem? Someone tried to build a solution for what Neal is talking about at 10 minutes in Go to the fringes to get the edge cases What is the advantage of a low status source? How do you make your questions and answers legible? Subtopics and how to use them? What is the demand for previous for previous programmers learning Urbit? What is the percentage of programmers who are learning Urbit? What was the first iteration of home school? Dozen people finished Now they have 60 people finishing Why does Urbit have a weird perception from people? Once you hear about it you go into the rabbit hole and it never stops Its a web within a web Its like a secret door in a house didn’t you know about it Pitch the idea of the treasure hunt powered by Urbit Why did stars survive in demand? How much did they survive? How much does it cost to buy a star now versus the 2022 downturn in crypto How do you get the right answer as opposed to the fast answer? Only developers who are autodidactic like and stay with Urbit Who is Richard Stallman? LISP He built community around GANU, Linux? Invented the free software What is functional programming? What is the relationship between mental divergence and programming? What is the third type of developers in relation to something like Urbit? The arguers What is the fourth type of developers in relation to something like Urbit? Rebellious and devious enough What is the relationship between Bitcoin and Urbit? What are the main challenges you see in terms of my crazy idea for the treasure hunt? What are the options to build this quickly? This is the main problem Is it a web page driven experience? Build an urbit app and get them to install it You would have to figure out how to do the call outs to the phone device Hot or cold game Only track wether they found it or not How can we effectively expose underlying things to the urbit server? 24 minutes in Should we think about Urbit as a operating system? Who is experimenting with Urbit moons as internet of things?

Bill Lawrence from ReStore What did Zaire used to be called? What is River Blindness? What is less effective than DDT? Why would you dissect a fly? How do you dissect a fly? Why will we mine our own garbage? What items require special recycling? What is a “transfer station”? What is “planned obsolescence”? Who is leading the way with a “cradle-to-grave” philosophy?

Dashiell Bark Huss CEO, Wish Tender What is Wish Tender? Gifts from fans Gift registries It's a privacy company How do adult film stars know how to create boundaries? Is it hard for adult film stars to create boundaries? What is financial domination? A sub who likes to be submissive when it comes to money 90-Day Fiancee If someone comes to you and offers you gifts, what do you do? Why are you nervous about outsourcing? What is it like to do business with your life partner? Is Wish Tender a “no-code business”? Why is New Mexico a great place to do vanlife? Meow Wolf is Pee Wee’s Playhouse on acid What do you know about Urbit so far? What is the deal with Linkedin’s search? What do we know about lucid dreaming What do we not know about lucid dreaming? We don’t know any biomarkers during lucid dreaming Why don’t we know what is physically happening in lucid dreaming? What do the electrodes measure? EMG muscle tone EOG electric ocular graphing EEG electroenchephalograph Alpha Beta Gamma Theta Lucid Dreaming lab at NorthWestern Send them an eye signal through the dream REM you can detect What about your 100 days of discomfort like? Vanlife (37 minutes in) Why does Stewart have a fear of wearing silly stuff? What was it like asking people to play Rock Paper Scissors? What is the feeling like of having someone confront strangers? What types of attention are fun to get? What is the difference between political swag and political garb? What happens when you wear both a Trump shirt and a Bernie shirt? What happens when you wear a Trump shirt at a college campus? (40 minutes in) What are some other things that will get you stereotyped that aren’t political? Why do both Dashielle and Stewart have so many idiosyncrasies when other people? What is relationship between stoicism and sex and/or sex word? Can you be both a sex worker and a stoic at the same time? What is it like to be a contrarian? What is the relationship between crying and stoicism? What are crocodile tears? How do you fire people? What are the differences between sympathy and empathy? What is metacognition? What does it improve in relation to lucid dreaming? What is the inner monologue’s connection to lucid dreaming? What does it take to be a good lucid dreamer? Why do people disagree about what just happened? What is a reality check? Awake What do you think of the deep sleep state? What are the stages related to deep sleep? Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 What is the difference between REM and deep sleep? What is the relationship between cannabis and lucid dreaming? Should I do an OnlyFans account? How do you get a lot of attention for a good cause? How can I get arrested for something silly? How do you find an old law to test? How do I create a mugshot for myself? What is the difference between satirical news and fake news? How can I get more magical realism in my life? Read the book from Gabriel Garcia Marquez? @dashbarkhuss on twitter

An experiment I'm running to live tweet my interviews in the forms of questions: The first try is with ~timluc-miptev on Urbit He is constructing and coordinating a DAO that will be a Layer 1 that will start as a ZK roll-up in the Urbit ecosystem. What is a program running on the Urbit operating system? What does it mean to write to the ETH blockchain? What are the main constructs in building what you are building? What will it take to build a full layer 1 on Urbit? What is the deal with hype-farming? What do you need for a full layer 1? How do you get people on board? How do you make sure its secure? How many years does it take to build trust in an layer 1? What use cases can be solved by a layer 1? Why is Urbit the best environment for staying productive and happy as a programmer? How do you balance the money-making hype-farming with staying grounded? How do you not pump and dump? What are the hype-farming paths? What is your marketing strategy? Does Urbit have the most high end mind share like Quora did but no longer has? How can this be nurtured? What is starkware? How do you get developer mind-share in an age when the best is already post-economic? Is raising money for crypto companies better to do in a venture style as opposed to crowdfunding? How do you become an accredited investor? Who do you show the money to? What is the impact of devs being post-economic and post location? How do you do due diligence when people like being anon? Whtat is the value prop of Urbit? What is the future of gaming on Urbit? What is the difference between production programming and fun/tinkering programming? Urbit is the unifying software behind the fun factor for programmers? What is a networking operating system? What will Urbit look like in a thousand years? Behind the scenes network operating system that no one notices. Will your thing eventually work on hardware? What is it like to live in a world of bits? What is your long-term physical location ideal? Nomad? What is the main challenge of building a ZK roll-up? How does it work in ETH? How can we think about in terms of state when it comes to ETH? How do you build a small ETH program as a ZK roll up? What are the main use cases that are being created right now with ZK roll-ups? Make transactions cheaper ZK roll ups seem like strange distributed bots straight out of a Gibson Cyberpunk Novel. What is the metaverse? What will happen to real estate when crypto is fully embodied in our physical life? What does it mean to be Will-maximalist? What are the upsides to living a fully remote work life? How do you balance the upsides and downsides? What is the difference between being grounded and dependent on a physical location? What were doing in Ukraine? Why are you a Russophile? What was it like to be ungrounded quickly by war in Ukraine? How is news different when you are actually in the physical location where the news is taking place? What are input/output matches? Track what the inputs were and what they said. Test whether it turned out to be true. Say to yourself what you think is going on and test it.

What is the current state of psychedelics? Is it legal to use psilocybin in a controlled treatment framework in Oregon? What state will be next? What does it mean to be a Schedule One Drug? What will the FDA do next year in terms of psychedelics? Why is Ibogaine illegal? What is Habitat for Humanity? What percentage of the population has P.T.S.D.? Who is on the cutting edge of research in this area?

Jacob Rudolph Executive Director of Pride Network What does it mean to develop leadership? What does it mean to have a third-party mediator? What are the main challenges when it comes to communication? What does it mean to serve? Do you still feel like you have to learn lessons about humility? What does it mean to open your heart? What is the relationship between the nervous system and emotional growth? God is real, now what? I’m not alone, and the connection between being divergent and finding others who are like us. What turn-keys have you found recently? How do you find equations that unlock everything? How many books has David Hawkins written? How do you find holy company? How do you not identify with trauma in groups? How do you find healing alone? Trauma bonding in groups. What have you learned of forgiveness? How did the U.S. Federal Government stop Native Americans from practicing their religion? How many people are in chronic pain? Can you forgive people while alone? What is the relationship between the God-realm and forgiveness (look at you, Jesus and crew)? Is pain socially mediated? What is the relationship between collective and individual pain? What can we learn about safe spaces? How do you lead groups without getting enwrapped by the dark triad? What is the value or utility of suffering? How do you get to the unmitigated experience of their own pain? What do you think of my idea of MDMA therapy? How can you tell the difference between CPSTD and someone on the dark triad? How do you help people become their own self healers? What is a basic education on trauma? The holistic psychologist on Instagram, Dr. Nicole Pera. What is the window of tolerance? How can we feel into our bodies and notice the symptoms of anxiety? Let's talk about drugs. (27 minutes) What is the fawn response? How do you recontextualize things? What do you know about MDMA therapy and the FDA? What are your thoughts on pharmacology? Stepping stones for healing, not the end point How do you stop becoming a people pleaser? What is the relationship between involvement and alignment? How do you stop fixing, contro,l and caregiving when it’s not beneficial? The difference between love. What are the limitations of my own power? What is the Pride Network? What have you learned about running a Pride Network? How many people are at the Pride Network? Are you the one raising money? What have you learned about humility from raising money? Who do you mostly raise money for? How do you use social media to raise money? 1% of GDP goes to philanthropy. (45 minutes) What have you learned about being comfortable asking for money? Nonprofits doing money laundering. What is pathos (the emotional self)? What percentage of the non-profit funding comes from the middle class? Upper class? How do you find the people to get money for? Find the people who already do it and ask them. What are the legal requirements for the board structure? 501(3) status Can I serve as a channel? What percentages of fundraising streams in a non-profit organization? What are the causes that you care about? Pride Network, offering assistance to 18-29 LGBQT youth. Heart-centered leadership development. How can people volunteer? Corporate connections What do you look for in a board member? Pridenetwork.org

Stuart Christoph Director of the Urbit Foundation Grant Program What is the grant program for Urbit? Is that for technical people? 2 years from now we will be able to build businesses. What small businesses have you started? What are the security problems?How does Urbit scale? How much is a Star? How can I set up a Star? How do you enable more people to run their small businesses? What is a system admin? Can we get the instructions of how to set up a star for my show notes? https://operators.urbit.org/ To run a star, you don’t need to know any Hoon? To do a youtube video while doing a star.. On the deeper technical side, Urbit is not really great at serving large files Discoverability on Urbit for the Youtube videos. What are they tracking with the spaghetti URL’s? UTM parameters What do they absorb it in? How badly did GDPR impact small businesses? What is ownership? How did value generation change for labor to compute? What year did labor change to compute? Late 90’s to early 2000’s How does the equity ownership framework play into that? What type of things should someone be aware of when it comes to exchange of equity and relationships? What are psychopaths doing in terms of Gamestop and Crypto? What is happening behind the scenes? How do we align will and intent? How do you know the right person to go to for the reality check? What is the difference between manipulation and positive influence? Once you define a computer system it can be gamed. What are the first principles of building healthy working relationships? How is that different from love relationships? Are you using smart contracts to hire anonymous employees? What is the Sword of Damocles? What is the Hack-A-Thon that you are creating? Unconference in Miami 22nd-25th This is where they show off stuff 1 a week for new Urbit applications Books Bounty, Dalton Collective Hack-A-Thon that culminates at Assembly Hoon school live has 61 new Hoon developers How do I find one of the new Hoon developers? Teams of 2-3 people that cover an array of skill sets for the hackathon Competent Hoon dev, front end (javascript), and vision/user experience/ideation How can you build trust and relationships between the users on the Urbit network? What is TC/IP? What is an apprenticeship for Urbit development? How do I find the devs for the Assembly? Mars Invisible College Who to follow if you liked this episode: @urbitfoundation on Twitter urbit.org/grants DM ~sarlev-sarsen Join the Urbit Foundation’s group: ~wolref-podlex/foundation

Theodore Blackman Urbit Core Dev & Manage projects at Tlon Arvo Kernel Find him on ~rovnys-ricfer on Urbit What are metapolitics? What is content distribution for Urbit? What is the networking protocol for Urbit? How is Urbiit different from other networking protocols? What is Subscription Reform? What is a Pub-Sub system? What is the Scriname Space?Are there already scalable networking systems? What is the limit on users right now on Urbit? How do analytics work on Urbit? How long have you been programming in Hoon and Knock? What is an overlay OS? If I’m programming something for a Rasberry Pi, does it make it harder or easier? Why would somebody want a peer-to-peer operating system? What does it mean to have a personal server? Why is it important? What is a root node and a routing node? What is the key to a distributed system? What are the pillars of it?What is transactional networking or persistent networking? Is Port my own server? How does that work? How easy is it to interface with APIs and connect Urbit apps to web apps? What is your favorite Urbit app? Have you used Urtweet? Do you have access to Dallee? Dalton Collective Octupus @_dalton What is Urbit trying to do? Urbit destroys the need for a server admin (24 minutes) Are there any hardware wallets that can keep my Urbit planets? Ledger What is the PKI (Urbit ID system)? Azimuth What is the world going to look like in ten years when/if Urbit is much larger? What are autonomous digital communities? Bridge.urbit.org (33 minutes) What is the intersection between Crypto and Urbit? What is the software supply chain (47 minutes)? What are your thoughts on Holochain? ~Datnutpollen What is a categorization theorist?

Peter McEvoy Run Time Engineer at Tlon Will Urbit replace Linux? Urbit is so big and ambitious Urbit as an overlay operating system On top of an existing operating system e.g: Mac OS, Windows How far are we from hardware-enabled Urbit? How long will it take for Urbit to go big, like really big? How many developers are working on Urbit right now? 15 engineers at Tlon Tlon is the corporate lynchpin for the effort How many companies are building on Urbit? Who runs the Urbit non-profit? How does someone get a grant from the Urbit non-profit? How do the non-profits work when it comes to supporting open source projects? It's like an ISP non-profit What is Urbit? Human interaction to an online setting Like Stumble Upon Synchronicity and Exploration, Serendipity Google is detrimental because you get exactly what you want from it Stewart realizes how addicted he is to immediate gratification Will people build things on Urbit that will lead to immediate gratification? Will Google become obsolete? How will they adapt? What does it feel like now 3 years after giving up all social media except Linkedin? Will Iboga work for internet addiction (we didn’t speak about it)? As an engineer do you sometimes feel like God or a God? Have you been to China? Would you use something like Duolingo for learning languages? Can you give me insight into building a new spaced repetition software on Urbit? What is a hard break in history (19 minutes)? Does someone in China own a galaxy? Or a star? What is the deal with the Urbit ID? What was your graduate degree in? How far are we away from me being able to write prose? What are the two languages for urbit? Hoon Knock What are virtual machines? How do they work? How long did it take you to get proficient in Knock and Hoon? What is the Urbit Kernel? Arvo Why is functional programming such an aspect of Urbit? Who are the functional programming experts at Tlon or the other companies developing on Urbit? For a newbie at programming, would it be better to learn functional programming? Cal Newport Deepwork How do I design my day to day living so that it brings me joy and don't do things that I don’t want to do? How can we learn how we are being surveilled? What did Alan Watts teach you about Zen? A supposedly fun thing I will never do again A book by david foster wallace Do luxury cruise ships still work? What is search? Why is it different from discovery? Reference https://forvo.com/ for learning pronunciation Show notes Peter’s linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcevoypeter/ Peter’s email: [email protected] Peters @p (Urbit ID): ~fanfun-mocbud

Michael Hawaii Founder of Ocean Bit Are there a lot of Brazilians in Hawaii? Is Honolulu more beautiful than Rio? How about San Francisco? What is Ocean Energy Thermal (O-Tech)? What type of businesses are high kpax? Why aren’t you a fan of the word innovation? Are you going to build your business remotely? What is the difference between a moral opinion and data driven opinion? How are data packets different from digital money? What was your trip like to Venezuela?(25:00) What did you learn from your trip to Venezuela? Who are the Venezuelans to follow about Bitcoin? What don’t you like about custody? What are food labs? How does Hawaii get its energy? Where does it come from? How long does it take to get ships? Remembering people comes down to their name and where they come from. When did King Hamea Hamea conquer? (45:00) Who is Tim May? Has the FBI ever turned off a Coinbase account of someone who they didn’t like? What is Hanai? Who is Troy Cross @michaelhawaii

Steven Morris Electrical engineer & High-Viber of Craziness @lifesmith - the mythology and the crafting of life. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world is what shapes our reality. Who is Richard Bach, author of “Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”? Disappearing Clouds: thoughts create reality. Learning Discernment is ongoing. Neutral Learning. Some stories can be retold, some will always be there. Which app uses Spaced Repetition Memorization? Love is an abstract concept. Abstractions from nature implemented in code. (24:00) Blockchain solves the problem of data integrity. Holochain uses distributed hash tables for data maintained by the user first and foremost and the process makes sure that the data is in integrity with the rules in which it is created. “I didn’t get my 6th b**ster, so I can’t spend money anymore.” We are in a worldwide collapse of civilization… but collapse doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Techno Utopia vs. Mad Max @lifesmith

Galen Wolfe-Pauly CEO of Tlon Why do I need a personal server? Why is it that we all have access to centralized servers? Why does all our data need to be in the same place? What is the issue of large scale? How do we consume information? How can I control my software? How do you use a computer as a vehicle for everyday creativity? How should I build my jungle gym? Pitch my new massage table idea. How do you manage writing for your role as CEO? Does Hoon help you in the way it's written? When will Tlon build a new Google Suite? How will writing lead into computer development? How do you deal with unproductive stress? What is landscape? How do you boot an urbit node? 2020: 2021: Work on the infrastructure so that other people can ship apps 2022: Take landscape and split them into other applications Digital Basics OS Simple suite of tools, solo for your own note taking. What will be the business-to-business landscape for Urbit? Real estate investment trust. Landscape as an OS in more high-level stuff. What is an OS? All the stuff, UI Chrome, developer frameworks for building an application. How do you make a toolkit really good? Urbit becomes. What is the problem with Google Docs? How do you visualize your personal data? What are the incentives to hoard other’s data? Sell it to advertisers. How do you build the social media layer on top of the internet? What does the internet look like after Urbit? Do we now have teleportation of the mind? What do you think about ancient Athens and the thing that happened to them as a connected place? How do you think advertising will work within Urbit? What is the technological problem that Urbit solved? How do you know when things turn mildly creepy? Older than blockchain. Who were the early creators of distributed systems? Tell me more about cypherpunk. What are distributed systems? 500 CS graduates in the late 60s. Electrical engineering programs (25 minutes) Area of CS research: A program that runs on a bunch of nodes, which needs them to share data and compute together. How did you find your investors? What does Urbit mean in regards to the future of distributed systems? Where does Gitlab fit into Urbit? Its an F-U to the networked computing industry. What is the industrial software complex? What are the things that are served by a personal virtual machine? What have you learned about the Self and self-identity from creating things on Urbit? What are the upfront costs of learning Hoon? In the early PCs the chip-set matters a lot. Chips run the code through the system. Portability in software. Why does ETH create a virtual machine? Why does it need one? A system as of a bunch of nodes. What do you think of Chia? How do physics flow into computing and new technologies? What is the one definition of computing? Whatever comes next. What is the relationship between Lightning and Urbit? What is an arbitrary contract? What is LUNA (45 minutes)? How do you tell when something isn’t hyped? In what ways was OHM like LUNA? What has woodworking taught you? What is materially useful here? How can you get a categorical win? How should I scope the project? What is the most important thing about building what you are going to build? What are the material constraints of the product you want to build? How will that work with the new technologies coming out of the pipeline? How do you work with people? Look at interviews with the people who wrote cyberpunk. What game? What is Zaibatsu? What is monolithic about the personal computer? What is dynamic land? Ubiquitous computing paper from the late 80s? What is outdoor computing?

Francis Pedraza CEO and Cofounder of Invisible How was 2021 NYC like 1929 NYC? Is your business prepared for this recession? How did you prepare for the recession? How does profitability change your business? How do you buy back shares from investors? Ownership pizza pie: how do you convince an investor to buy back shares? How does the Golden age apply to partying on the internet? What is the Xeno paradox? You buy back equity with debt, and fInance with profits. This gets around the “bootstrappinig dilemma”.How does thinking in terms of buying back change the game on what you want to get out of your company? It gets investors aligned. What do you think about debt versus equity? Equity is expensive. How did you make it a deal for your investors? Why do people think about equity wrong? How did you set up the Finance 101 course? How does Heidegger think about the unsaid or the implied? How can I turn this into an online course (12:00)? What do you think about cryptocurrency? How can we uncover abuse, both subtle and not? What is a cashless loan? What is a strike price? What is art in business? What is the downside of loans? What does it mean to have a full recourse loan? How much do people believe in you? How can you make sure that a particular value is aligned? Where do most of your ideas come from? What do you mean by “paternalistic”? What are some maternalistic tricks? How do maternal downsides show up in companies? How does one become financially sophisticated? How do the VC’s abuse management teams? How do you verify if your agents come in full alignment? Selective informance versus neutral informance. What is Invisible’s social media policy? Do you have any agents in Russia? How have you adapted to remote work? What are the edge cases for non-violence? What is ESG? Do weapons manufacturers get ESG money? The road to serfdom Hayek (30:00) Bastiat Grannys lost their money on the stock market, like what is happening to crypto right now. The rule of accredited investors started with FDR. Insider trading created collusion for investing in private companies. 50 million to 100 billion; Theil made a shitload. What are the unseen problems? What are your thoughts on Urbit? What are the metaphysics behind socialism? Why does utopia always require intervention? Whack-a-mole socialism Will technology ever be a full magic wand? It is similar to the question of eternal life. What is the Persian holy epic book? Bhagavad Gita Mahabharata Reminds me of King Ashoka.. Who are the Shatriya? Brahmans are the priests. How can we be warriors for the truth? Am I changing or just progressing? How do I mix this perfection and becoming? What are your thoughts on purgatory? Why does being want to be?Why are there these realms of time? How did you learn how to manage your calendar? Do you like management? God got bored being one thing so he made many things. How do you determine the integrity level of another individual? Who are the Pre-Socratics? Who is Parmenides?There are no clear-cut lines between things. What is that an artifact of? What is New York-ness?Are you using virtual machines?What is the Numerai? Visionary Ventures 2024 profits Why does the world need another venture firm? Turing test is the paradigm for Silicon Valley. A test for humans to see how well they adapt to technology. Slurping slushees on a spaceship with Wall-E. How did such a platonic ideal get done by matrix? Da Vinci TestWhen will the average person be able to defeat Da Vinci in a creativity contest? How do you measure productivity? The rise and fall of American growth. Some people are productive and some are not. The Wizard and the Wand The relationship between the wizard and the wand instead of the wand destroying us all. Are you going to become a digital warlord? How do you reduce the distance between thought and action? How does someone stuck in UBI mindset understand the potential they have? ConversionWhere does the will come from? What is the face you had before you were born? What are the two risks I’m facing right now?How do you remove the possibility of defeat? How do you grow a company? No employees allowed. What does it mean to be an employee? What does it mean to be consultative? What did Marxists teach us about how to create value for both the labor and the ownership class? How do you manage the potential when it comes to finance?

A distant cousin, a writer who lives in Maine, and a former political consultant. Why is 1957 a bad time to get stuck in a honey pot? 1962 is when the Cuban missile crisis occurred. What is Mr Jones? Is Russia a threat to the United States? What does a great policy towards Russia look like? What is the policy towards Russia? What is the policy towards China? What are the forms of leverage that China has on the US? How about Russia? Who is Peter Splitzer and his book? What is going to happen to Europe when it comes to alliances with Russia and the US? What does the Monroe doctrine look like from a Russian perspective? What is NATO doing? What is the role of nuclear power? NATO Article 5 was only used after 9/11. Why do you disagree with? What does a desperate Russia look like? Who is Gerhadt Schroder? Is the Ukraine War a civil war? What is the role of the UN in the New World Order, which is essentially a lack of order? The planes never arrived. Who were the victims of Joseph Mcarthy? What is the future of the American political experience? How can the Republican Party stop being reactive? Column for three newspapers Village Soup (Crossfire Hurricane)

His business is like Jack Mallers’ Strike, but in Brazil. What is the Bitcoin scene like in Brazil? What is Bitcoin Maximalism? Which cryptocurrency is the most reliable? Is there a better alternative to democracy? What is a hardware wallet? What is the Lightning Network? What is Bitcoin Beach? What is the effect of hyper-inflation on bitcoin? Who was the Bitcoin Jesus? What were the Block-Size Wars? What are your favorite psychedelic substances? @didimosats

Christian Langalis is the co-founder and C.E.O. of Tirell Corporation What is Orbis Tertiary? What is the Orbis Ledger? Are there any cyberpunk references for Urbit business? What is the distinction of cyber-punk? Dystopia. What is cypher-punk? Who are Timothy May and Satoshi Nakamoto What is the overreach of instrumentalization? What is the atomization of the social? How did computers atomize humans even further? In what ways has studying culture informed your world view? What is the ultimate holy grail for Tirrell? What is an interregnum? What is the role of Urbit in the Web 3.0 ecosystem? How do you maintain legacy systems on an entirely new system that is censorless? What is a Spot ETF and why is it important? What is Bitcoin’s fifth pillar? (15 minutes) What is a cantalon insider? What is the New World Order that George H. W. Bush setup and how does it work now? What is the Minsky Moment? What is the Austrian tendency when it comes to economics? Who are Larry White and George Selgen? What is synthetic commodity money? What is the New Wyoming Bank Charter? What are Full-Reserve Cryptocurrency Banks? What is the difference between a bank and a bitcoin wallet? What are interbank clearing systems? What is the difference between a deferred system and a credit card settlement? What is unchained capital multisig? What is an FBO? What are extant regulations? What is the Nick Land quote (“in the mouth of madness”) (25 minutes)? How did science fiction inform your life? Who is Phil Monk? Urbit strives to have a system that is human scale, that will never require the long-term intervention of a specialized third party. Why do people call Curtis Yarvin an authoritarian? What is peer discovery? What is the contained podcast and who is Barret (36 minutes)? What are your favorite exclaves? How do I use Tirrell? Download the thing (find the thing). What is landscape (groups) programming language? What is the future of NFTs when it comes to fan groups? NFT’s can be digital cellophane wrappers for an album. How many people are in the Tirell corporation? What should someone know about the Urbit foundation? What is Hoon School? Do you have any insight into the people aspect of doing business? How is Tirell corporation set up? What church do you belong to (55 minutes)? What is the correct view of Urbit? What is the Jungen? What is Cottage Core? What is the relationship between Solipsism and being a Luddite? Who is Junger? What is the naming scheme? ~tirrel ~pindet-timmut ~tirrel corporation tirrel.io

Erik Newton is the C.O.O. of tlon.io which is the web development service for Urbit. Urbit is a place where you can speak your mind without worry of being censored. He used to be a lawyer, researching how humans can be removed from the execution and enforcement of contracts. He also had a podcast which attempted to pinpoint the causes of conflict in human relationships. Urbit is 3 pieces of technology: A virtual server built from the ground up; very secure, durable, and simple. A peer-to-peer encrypted network connecting all of the servers. A decentralized verification system. Data is not harvested on the Urbit network as it is on other social media networks. Humans can’t put genies back in their bottles. Get ready for Web 3.0! urbit.org tlon.io

If you are interested in the info on the podcast please make sure to verify yourself the information that is presented You are on your own now for determining what is true. No trusted groups are now responsible for it. You can't outsource it. The best way that I have found to find what is true is to ignore what the mind wants to be true and relentlessly attack your own notions of what is true. Ask is that true? Over and over again until you find out If you verify it yourself please find Steve Kirsch on Substack here: https://substack.com/profile/40661664-steve-kirsch For reference from the audio on the debate between two trained experts: James Lyons-Weiler on Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40349055-james-lyons-weiler

Jonathan Harrison's work is in learning to become more realistic. The more we connect to what’s really happening as opposed to what we think, we realize that what we think is our creativity operating, but the real world is just happening (including our thinking which is part of the real world). Then from this more realistic viewpoint, what we think ceases to disturb us because we realize it has no particular validity or meaning whatsoever, other than expressing our state of mind at the point that we may express it. The Unconditioned Mind: With a direct view of reality as it is, in which things that aren’t real don’t disturb you. You might call it a gentle adjustment or correction to our faulty education. Anger is a physical and mental state which we sometimes get into. When we’re angry, it’s temporary insanity and our judgment isn’t as good at that time. People who attack with anger are generally in the greatest need. Happiness is a biological drive that can cause anger. There’s always pain hiding behind anger. Listening to an angry person can diffuse their anger. Confusion is a common reaction to this work, along with fear and the whole spectrum of emotions. Ultimately there is no terminology in this work, and it doesn’t depend on any theory. For these reasons, it can get strange very quickly. We are all scientists. Nobody understands anything, but this doesn’t stop us from trying. The process of learning is updating our expectations according to the evidence. If you can accept that what’s happening now is not what you think, you immediately may face an open space of pure awareness in which you don't know what to be aware of, you don’t know who’s aware, you don’t know what awareness is, and it really doesn’t matter anymore. The goal is awareness of things as they are, as opposed to things as you think they are. In this work we don’t start from the assumption that a problem exists so there’s nothing to heal or solve, and we don’t start with the assumption that a problem doesn’t exist so everything is open. If there’s a problem and you have a solution, no need to worry. If there’s a problem and you don’t have a solution, there’s also no need to worry. Be wary of any teacher who is claiming to be enlightened, they may have missed the point.

Michael Batrano is the founder of Libertis Horizon, a private society event happening in San Diego that is focused on freeing individuals around the world from the control structures that keep us living scared, disconnected lives and restrict our personal agency. In this episode, we discuss control systems, how the elites have deceived us into giving away our agency, and much more. You can find him on his website www.libertishorizon.com and on the associated Telegram group. 1:16 - 15:46 -The two systems US citizens are living under. -Why knowing yourself is important to navigating yourself out of the negative system to the positive one -How the negative system has caused us to overintellectualize our lives. -How propaganda distracts you from the damage done by the negative system -Everything we use is owned by a few private groups. How do they maintain control? 16:00 – 17:55 -What is democracy? Is it useful? Does it offer any protection? -The REAL difference between a Democracy and a Republic. 17:56 – 19:27 -The unique opportunity modernity has presented for enabling individuals to build their own private worlds 19:30 – 25:09 -How we get trapped in the elite’s world without our consent. -Why you need to understand the contracts that keep us bound to these control structures -Everything in society is fiction. -How the idea of the US is now upside down. 25:27 – 34:23 -Examples of governments that have enforced control systems on their citizens -Does the US constitution offer more protection from autocratic systems than other constitutions? -Facebook and Google have been compromised. -Why guns are the last bastion of freedom in the US. 34:25 – 46:21 -A bit about Michael’s past -Lessons learned from fatherhood -How Disney implants the wrong ideas about love in us -How to keep yourself open to love despite the risks -Human nature is not innately destructive - we’re influenced from even before birth to have baggage. 46:50 – 53:25 How to find out more about the Libertis Horizon event.

Particularly what technologies will help us remove ourselves from systems of waste and hopefully inequality of opportunity. Many people think that we are in a dark age but what if in fact the last few years have been a civilizational level psych-out and we are on the cusp something truly great and transformational. Listen for more by Ben Magelsen (you can find him on Twitter at @benmagelsen

James O'Shaughnessy is the founder, chairman, and co-chief investment officer at OSAM (O'Shaughnessy Asset Management). In this episode, we discuss the changes that have come about in the world post-COVID, mainstream media, politics, navigating the future as a society, the law of attraction, and much more. You can catch Jim’s podcast, Infinite Loops, at www.infiniteloopspodcast.com. Enjoy. 1:58 - How covid accelerated the evolution of work meetings 6:47 - What is quantitative analysis? And how is it different from hedging bets? 13:36 - The world, especially after covid, has changed with respect to investing and decision-making, what do these changes look like? What will they result in? 19:08 - The crazy thing about Silicon Valley 21:24 - A rule of thumb for filtering who to have political discussions with 22:07 - How mainstream media in America is committing suicide 31:12 - How to deal with self-deception and how it is easier for intelligent people to fall prey to self-deception. 36:47 - How do you navigate the differences between eastern and western philosophy? 48:04 - The dangers of premature certainty 48:43 - The truth behind the law of attraction 54:01 - What is negative compounding and why should you be wary of it? 1:00:50 - Why free societies do better than unfree societies. 1:12:31 - Why you should see life as a “choose-your-own-adventure” game 1:20:44 - Why the atomization of society, the destruction of geographical boundaries by the internet, and addiction to social media outrage all work to serve a healthy purpose. 1:31:20 - Why marketing is the bedrock of all of humanity’s greatest institutions.

Steven is trying to discover the next culture that’s emerging to replace conventional western culture and is also trying to be part of its formation. In this episode, we talk about order, blockchain, decentralization, media, information, eastern spirituality, and much more. You can reach out to Steven on Twitter @_StevenFan 1:30 - What is the relationship between top-down and bottom-up influences when it comes to the formation of culture? 1:59 - Is the universe itself inherently bottom-up? Is order built up or pressed down? 6:44 - What is a cultural membrane? How do they influence a culture? 13:15 - As the world becomes more of a global village, is the decentralization of the internet possible with the current model of the internet? Should decentralization even be a goal? 18:15 - In the quest for decentralization, are languages like Solidity (Ethereum’s programming language) useful for creating large-scale applications, like Twitter, for example? 26:49 - How centralized technology can trap us in an information bubble. 28:57 - What is meant by the phrase, “the medium is the message?” 34:32 - What is the salience network and how does it influence how we perceive and process information? 36:35 - How paying attention to the salience network can lead to spiritual experiences 41:58 - Does consciousness exist beyond the brain or body? 48:07 - How does the brain create the unitary perception of reality? Is the brain even the actual mechanism behind this unitary perception of reality? 51:48 - What is information?

Daliso Ngoma is the founder and Managing Director of African Technopreneurs which is focused on providing the best AR/VR/360 camera hardware in South Africa. In this episode we discuss NFTs, Crypto, blockchain, trust, thinking for yourself, avoiding self-deception, and much more. You can find Daliso on Twitter and Instagram at @djngoma. Enjoy. (5:24) What is the connection between VR and crypto? Is it possible that they’re going to merge into one? (7:41) What exactly is an NFT? What does it actually mean to own one? (14:55) Is there a difference between shame and guilt? What is it? (17:14) Can you trust centralized social media platforms? Is crypto/blockchain a stepping stone to freedom of expression on the internet? How should you navigate decisions with contradicting information? Such as deciding whether to take the vaccine or not? (19:46) Do you really think for yourself? (23:33) Why you should be skeptical of how internet platforms (e.g., social media and websites) use the data you give them. (30:49) Self-deception: How Daliso tries to avoid bullshitting himself. (35:00) Why do people get so emotional when arguing on Twitter? (37:55) How South Africa is handling lockdowns. (47:57) What’s the crypto space in Africa like? (53:34) Can you pay for stuff with bitcoin in South Africa?

Keia is a Medicine Woman who organizes ceremonies for ancestral medicine. Her aim is to help people transform their lives life into empowered and abundant experiences through facilitating awakenings and supporting healing. In this episode, we discuss plant medicines, what it means to heal, the relationship between fear and healing, the goal of healing, and much more. You can find Keia on Twitter at KLMedicinewoman, and on Instagram at keialavine. Enjoy! (3:29) What is healing? What does it mean to heal? How can you tell when someone, in front of you, is healing from something deep? (6:14) What is the relationship between fear and healing? Is it possible to be afraid of healing? (14:14) The role of pain in healing. (15:05) How much of your decision-making is based on fear? (17:57) The place we must get to, on the inside, if we’re to face the fear of healing. (24:57) Why healing isn’t for the faint-hearted. (32:20) What are “being needs” and “having needs”? How can they help us find meaning? (41:07) What was it like to grow up in an indigenous tradition?

Nikhil Verma is a medical doctor who specializes in treating and managing spinal health, mobility, chronic pain, and athletic health among others. In this episode, we discuss chronic pain, the various ways chronic pain is managed, transhumanism, muscular tension, and the possible future interventions in managing chronic pain. You can find Nikhil Verma on Twitter at VermaN21 and on Instagram at dr.nvsportandspine. Enjoy! (5:44) What is a notochord? (10:18) What portion of pain is subjective and what portion is objective? How much do we know about each of these components? Nociceptive vs Neuropathic pain. (14:40) What do we know about the memory component of subjective and chronic pain? And why is it so misunderstood? (18:02) Why opioids are terrible widespread methods for treating chronic pain. (19:54) How can we get better in touch with our endogenous opioids? (24:50) Is there such a thing as too much mobility? (26:44) Is there evidence that weightlifting helps manage chronic pain? (29:56) How does the brain create a unitary picture of experience? (33:10) Transhumanism, the ways people apply it to managing chronic back pain, and the problems with it. (41:45) Is there a relationship between muscular tension and chronic pain? Why are float tanks so effective? (48:55) What is the potential of stem cell regeneration for chronic pain? Do psychedelics or ketamines play any role in the future of treating chronic pain? (55:53) Will exoskeletons ever become mainstream? Are there any disadvantages to this?

Courtney is passionate about helping children with cancer and in this episode, we discuss the shortcomings of the medical industry, their misinformed directives, their indirect undermining of human endurance and adaptability, living off the grid, achieving independence from the system, and much more. Enjoy 2:07 The patient advocate: how Courtney helps children who have cancer and their families. 6:31 Why do kids get cancer? Do you know that in adults 90% of cancers have environmental causes? 8:45 How the medical industry, in its current form, prevents people from understanding how durable and capable their bodies are 11:44 How current medical protocol prevents doctors from paying deep attention to patients’ needs. 16:55 What does it mean to be “sensitive”? Does the word have multiple interpretations? 21:00 How do we “tear down” the “system”? 24:38 The largest political ingroup in the U.S is not who you think it is. 29:19 A big thing you can do to reduce your dependence on, and participation in, the system. 31:19 Is it possible to be in a codependent relationship with flowers and plants? 34:30 For quality planting tips revisit my episode with 35:32 How important is it to make money doing the things you love? Is it always doable? 39:49 Does free will exist? Do you really have agency over your choices? 45:52 The neuroscience of internal resistance 49:40 Tools for dealing with fear

A collaborative episode with Woody Wiegmann, host of Courage over Conviction podcast. In this episode, we discuss the existence of free will, and try to determine where choice ends and determinism begins. We discuss psychology, making the unconscious conscious, the pitfalls of human hubris, hedging against terrible fiscal policies and much more. Enjoy. (1:22) What is free will? How do we decide our actions? Do we really decide? Does free will actually exist or are we slaves to determinism? (10:12) The Iboga mystery. Why is it so effective with heroin withdrawals? What can Iboga, and plant substances in general, teach us about Biochemistry, and in turn free will? (13:58) Should psychology be a science? We don’t really understand qualia; all information comes to us through a subjective filter and we don’t fully understand that filter, so should psychology be seen as hard science? (17:24) Would it actually matter if our feeling of free will was actually a delusion? What if we just need to feel strongly like we have free will, what if it’s a mechanism that prevents us from drowning in the complexity of the world? (18:33) Woody’s answer to the mystery of free will (19:43) Stewart’s approach. (21:38) Does a deterministic approach make you more compassionate? (36:15) How much of our unconscious can we make conscious? How aware can we be of our own shadow? (42:20) How learning and knowledge-sharing have evolved and sort of given humans the ability to become books, and how this could lead to human evolution (45:48) The role of wealth in human evolution (48:21) The potential pitfalls of engaging in genetic engineering (53:58) Is it possible to resolve all of your inner biases? Is it possible to be free of bias? Or does bias have a role in humanity? (57:48) Why you should be wary of financial planners with fancy graphic presentations (1:00:08) How the separation between the treasury and the feds seems to be lessening and the risks associated with this phenomenon. (1:06:07) Can crypto serve as a hedge against inflation and horrible fiscal policies? (1:07:42) Alternative hedging options to Bitcoin

Joshua Morrison Cooper is the creative coordinator at Happiness and in this episode, we discuss gardening, the healing power of plants, how to get started with planting, how big agricultural practices deplete the quality of soil, government initiatives to help people interested in planting, and much more. We also spoke about Joshua's unique type of music, which you can listen to here: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/1QTKWSH9FVPks1M3A Enjoy. (1:53) Do you know you can make music with plants? Find out how (6:11) How working with plants helps you heal. Do you know that your body generates a certain kind of electricity, that under the right circumstances, can heal you? (10:49) How commercial farming techniques have depleted soil quality and nutrition (11:29) Some healthy alternatives to pesticides you can use in your home garden (21:00) What do you need to understand about plants and the planting process, if you want to work with them? (23:47) What are some things to be aware of in terms of how the government might be able to help you grow stuff if you’re interested? (25:55) What is vertical farming and how is it useful?

Matt Parlmer is the founder of General Fabrications, a firm devoted to democratizing production and the supply chain across a lot of industries. In this episode, we discuss his company's products, fabs, and delve into how they're going to revolutionize the manufacturing system and the various ways and fields in which they could be applied, such as in homesteading, moulding, and so on, as well as the possibilities they could unlock for humanity. You can find Matt on Twitter as @mattparlmer and General Fabrications as @genfabco. Enjoy!

Rodney Gainous is the founder and CEO of Safe, a company dedicated to providing more easy-to-use privacy tools for individuals and businesses. In this episode, we discuss the changes Corona has wrought, the importance of sending cold emails, the importance of location for networking, and much more. Enjoy! You can reach Rodney on Twitter at Rg2official. (7:59) Do you need to move to the Bay area, or tech hubs in general, to be able to fully chase your dreams of working in tech? What are the merits of doing so? Can you run a tech startup from any location? (11:09) Even if you choose to run your tech startup from outside a tech hub, is an experience of the tech hub necessary or helpful to have? (15:01) The difference between knowing a lot about a place and actually living in a place. (16:56) How to build a network in today’s Post-Covid world, despite all the restrictions posed by lockdowns. (19:58) Why you should learn to reach out to strangers, founders and people you admire, online more often. (Hint: a lot of them are more open than you think) (20:41) What is the value of being open in the business world, especially as a founder? (25:15) Is it good to be upfront about what you want when interacting with a stranger you want something from or are you better off building a relationship first? Where is the line? What is the right way to go about it? (29:43) A tip to help increase the open rates for your cold emails. (37:02) As a tech founder, how should you treat hype? Both hype of your company and external tech-related hype that generates FOMO? (47:51) Why is Miami receiving so much hype? Apart from it potentially being the new base for Silicon Valley.

Bruna Paese is the CEO of Iubi, a social robot that helps people improve their health. We had a marathon of an interview -my longest ever- at three hours. And in this episode, spoke about language, decision making, learning, drug use in Brazil, Banks, health, poverty, wealth, and so much more. Enjoy! (1:55) The nuances of language, how different slang can develop among different cultures sharing the same language. Can AI learn to note the differences in accents across non-native speakers of English? Is this current inability of AI to account for accents a failure of technology or is it a result of cultural bias? If even humans can’t appreciate all the nuance that exists in spoken language (i.e., tonality, pitch, etc.) can computers be expected to do the same? (7:25) Why do people go to therapy? Are actions similar to thoughts? We understand how people act and react to stuff, but do we understand how they think? Why is it important to understand how people think? (9:29) Why is Big Tech so concerned with the exploration of Mars? (13:42) How does Brazil rank in the AI revolution? What does the AI scene look like in Brazil? How does it work? What are its rules? (16:39) Brazil has half the population of Latin America and is the country with the largest landmass in South America, yet Chile, a much smaller country, manages to accumulate the same number of yearly tourist visits as Brazil, why? (22:54) Brazil’s big advantage; what is Iubi about? What does it do? How Bruna got the idea to start? (40:34) Is Iubi a robot, a human being, or a combination of both? (45:40) Conspiracy theories. Was COVID manufactured? Did China have a game plan? How do conspiracy theories form? Are conspiracy theories the result of using particular modes of communication? Where did the term “conspiracy theory” come from? How human nature makes it easy for us to accept unverified information. (58:16) What tests or markers can you use as a measure of fitness? (1:08:18) The global asset that is in demand but has very little supply (1:08:56) Drug history in Brazil; the value of history and how it shows the connection between everything. (1:19:27) The general argument is that drugs are a means to escape reality, but what if the opposite can also be argued? What if drugs actually support reality? What would that look like? (1:32:18) Why does cannabis have such a negative association, compared to other plant-based substances, like ayahuasca or psilocybin? (1:39:54) Why Iubi is focused on children (1:42:39) The unseen impact of environment on health (1:46:03) Given the access to nature people in the United States have, why aren’t we as nature-centered, especially in the materials we use to produce medicine, compared to countries like Brazil and India? How does culture limit or improve the overall health of a population? (1:49:26) Why language is more about connection than discovering truth. (2:07:50) Is the impact of COVID-19 on poverty and thus crime rates universal worldwide? (2:10:27) What is the truth about mental health? Is it an inborn pathology or a result of the environment you grew up in? Does expecting a person diagnosed with mental health issues to act crazy make them act crazy? And thus, what are the ways we treat patients diagnosed with mental health issues that cause them to respond negatively? (2:18:20) What is the future of pharmaceuticals? Where will technology take it? (2:22:32) How to create an ecosystem for innovation to thrive. (2:26:13) What is Brazil’s take on cryptocurrency? How deeply is it integrated into their financial system? How international transactions between banks actually work. (2:38:55) Why is it still possible to transfer money illegally between countries? Is it all because cash runs everything? And the governments can't actually see everything happening? (2:42:44) The lines between corporations and the state are thinning in many countries; CEOs or megacorps are gaining greater ability to influence government policy; can this new system still be called capitalism?

This episode focuses on self-sufficiency through living off the land and growing your own food, agroecology and restorative farming, escaping the control of governments worldwide, and basically living a life that allows you to thrive physically, all of these in light of the events of the pandemic. Enjoy! (2:50 - 3:40) The difference between city and rural life, and how that contrast, unwittingly, showed Gabriel the difference between learning about a course in college and actually living the reality of said course. (4:33 – 6:10) Now that the world as we know it has ended, what shifts in thinking and culture will have to be made to enable people thrive in the coming age? (7:42 - 8:34) The ethical, nutritional, and environmental benefits of oysters and growing oyster farms. (10:52 – 12:56) How Gabriel restored a portion of land that had been severely degraded from years of serving as pasture for horses and was unable to grow grass and made it rich, fertile farmland with more than a hundred varieties of plants, including fruit trees and cash crops, all within a year. (14:19 – 19:29) How human activities affect ecology; how pests and insects interact to contribute to nature’s ecology (22:22 – 27:01) Will more people embrace retiring to the country to farm their own lands and grow their own foods? Will the events and fear-mongering by governments worldwide, during the pandemic, cause the shifts necessary to make people seek self-sufficiency? Brazil as an example of how culture, if strong enough, can influence government directives; Are we currently living in an Orwellian world or a Huxleyan world? (27:45 – 30:01) There’s nothing wrong with vaccines, but given everything we know about COVID, does everyone have to take it? Given that we don’t know the long-term effects, is vaccinating everyone, including those who have already had covid and those who haven’t had it, worth the risk? (30:37 – 37:19) Organic vs inorganic farming; given that there are harmful organic pesticides, is organic farming really all the PR surrounding it makes it out to be? How do practitioners of agroecology cope with abstinence from the use of pesticides? How does this affect their crop yield and their ability to make a living? How do we incentivize restorative agriculture on a large scale? (46:48 – 53:09) How some commercial farmers are implementing regenerative agricultural practices. How money can help the incentivization of restorative farming. Are conscious consumers really making a difference or are they just being ripped off by capitalists trying to take advantage of their guilt? Does knowing the process of how food is made really change consumers’ relationship to food? Or is convenience the driving force?

In this episode, Isabelle and I discuss psychedelics, the differences between organic and synthetic psychedelics, the differences in how drugs are viewed in Brazil as opposed to the United States, psychology, the history of psychedelics, the death of God in the West, and the resultant coping mechanisms, her experience with Ayahuasca, and much more. Enjoy. (1:40-5:08) Unexpected differences between the laws governing drug and psychedelic use in the U.S. and in Brazil, and how funding is granted for the study of psychedelics in the U.S. and in Brazil. The intriguing methods Brazilian academics use in their study of psychedelics. (5:08-9:03) Should psychology be treated as an objective science? Some historical examples of what has happened when subjective metrics become taken for objective measures. Are there universalities in human behavior? Or is psychology a totally subjective endeavor? (9:18-15:39) The death of God in the west; the new wave of spirituality rising; the role psychedelics have to play in this rise; the danger inherent in throwing the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to rejecting the nihilism of western scientific rationality; are psychedelic ceremonies really ancient? How did humans discover psychedelics? How have psychedelics been used across history? Is there a difference in the experience between trips on organic psychedelics (e.g., psilocybin, iboga) and trips on artificial psychedelics (LSD)? (18:50-21:21) Isabelle describes her experience with ayahuasca (23:02- 25:50) Are plants sentient? Are they agents? Is it possible that plants like psilocybin and the ingredients found in ayahuasca may have motivations of their own that are in conflict with the motivations human beings have for themselves? If they are sentient, can we really say they’re our friends? Or is it the other way around? Is civilization killing us and plants trying to rescue us? (29:03-33:08) Why the switch, by many Westerners, to the teachings of eastern philosophies may not be such a good idea and why Western society may need to come up with its own answers to life’s existential questions. (50:09) An interesting observation on the effects of cold on cognitive ability.

This episode is different! Here, I'm interviewed by Alex Levy for an episode for his podcast "Through Conversations" which I also decided to publish here. Enjoy! 3:30 - Stewart's approach to interviews 6:00 - How should we use Twitter? 7:30 - Are we curious by nature? 8:34 - "Question asking is one of the most courageous things we can do" 10:00 - Are we able to cope with uncertainty? 13:19 - The best thing we can do is to awaken. 15:35 - The benefits of living under uncertainty. 17:45 - The ego from the Eastern Tradition. 18:55 - There are no sufficient words to answer the question of "Who am I?" 19:55 - Facebook as a place to portray the idealized self 21:30 - Some of the consequences of the pandemic. 24:30 - Are our leaders the reflection of ourselves? 27:00 - THE MATRIX OVERLORDS INTERVENED IN OUR CONVERSATION. 29:45 - Does natural selection favors organisms that are truth seekers? 31:05 - Assortative Mating on Ideology Could Operate Through Olfactory Cues 32:00 - Is there something beyond conditioning? 34:15 - The Matrix: Red Pill or Blue Pill? 37:00 - Can we cope with our death? 44:25 - If we live for eternity, how long would it take for us to become crazy? 45:45 - Has the pandemic made us afraid of life? 48:16 - Are we in a meaning crisis, as John Vervake says? 50:30 - Exercise on awareness - pointing towards awareness. 52:32 - Why do I want to know the truth? 56:00 - Finding the truth may make you more antifragile. 1:00:00 - Technology, made by humans, is growing exponentially, why are we having a hard time coping with its repercussions? 1:03:00 - The paradox of paradoxes.

Zura Guerra is a digital nomad that’s building a startup. In this episode we discuss technology in Latin America, the pandemic, decentralizing currency, and much more. You can find her on Instagram at zuraguerra, and on her blog at apolune.com. Enjoy. (2:23 - 4:15) Surviving the pandemic in Argentina, the country with the record of the longest stretch of lockdowns. (8:21 - 13:02) What will the startup ecosystem in Brazil and Mexico look like in the next few years? Will there be more buyouts by larger, more established companies? Does Latin America have the systems and infrastructure for that type of evolution? (13:03 - 14:16) A year ago, the biggest opportunities for technological innovation were to be found in payments, online education, and healthcare among others. Is that still the case today? Why innovators should integrate cash into future payment solutions. (14:40 - 20:49) How rural Mexicans (which make up the majority of the population) have adopted and utilize cryptocurrencies in their day to day lives. How Brazilians use QR codes to send and receive money. (21:31 - 24:08) Will the evolution of technology and decentralized currency lead to the weakening of nation-states? Is it already occurring? Are there examples of this happening? (32:02 - 36:15) The biggest thing Zura has learned about startups, so far, on her journey to build one. (36:17 - 41:38) What needs to happen for crypto to be adopted in more countries? And what are the risks involved with these happenings? What is money really? Should you still trust the dollar? (41:41 - 46:12) Why crypto should be more about wealth establishment than actually breaking away from nation-states or establishing independence for a small group of people and how Etherium set an example for this. Why we should think of ourselves more as global citizens

Here are some other questions we discuss: What is alternate reality cinema? How did COVID19 change the usage of social media? How did the online world change the meaning of fiction? How did COVID19 change the way that cognition is distributed on the internet? How do you build habits to affect the structure of human society? How did social media change psyops from central governments? Did we forget the important lessons that the initial internet taught us? How does Facebook think about second-order engagement? Check out an event that Michael is hosting this Friday: https://www.facebook.com/events/238478103910064/

The second entry in my solo podcast detour! In this episode, I talk about my attempts to experience the cultures I encountered, in my travels across Southeast Asia, more deeply, and my quest to find cultures that had not been as thoroughly exposed to the internet and its effects, as the West and similar modern societies. In the course of my travels, I spent some time on an island called West Timor and participated in the most awkward custom I'd ever experienced up till then. Listen to hear more. Enjoy!

I've decided to go on a detour with the style of my episodes. I'm currently not as motivated to interview anyone at the moment and so I decided, on suggestion from a friend, to share a few stories from the various experiences I've had in my life. This episode is the first iteration, it's about my time in Shangai back in 2006. Enjoy!

Francis is the CEO of Invisible Technologies; a business outsourcing and automation company. On his third appearance on the Crazy Wisdom podcast, we discuss AI, the ideal society, individualism, whether or not AI will conquer humans and so much more. You can reach out to Francis via mail by [email protected], or on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn at Francis Pedraza (@francispedraza) (1:24 – 10:53) A quick summary of what Invisible Technologies is about, how it works, its incentives, and what it seeks to achieve, as well as a quick narrative of the company’s rocky history, how it evolved into its current form, and how it is able to offer its USP. (11:09 – 13:05) The surreal nature of thought; how a single thought can be extremely complex and hold a world of information; why Francis thinks classifying emotions as ‘irrational’ is wrong. (14:10 – 23:51) Why experts tend to be blind; why AI isn’t going to kill us and can never replace humanity, and why you should read Nick Bostrom’s ‘Superhuman’ with your ‘whole brain’ (i.e. Ian McGilChrist style); can we teach a computer to just be? Are AI information processing and human thinking the same process? Does AI think? (23:53 – 28:50) Examples of the human inability to predict the future; why AI needs thinkers; a theory of what the singularity may look like, as opposed to the merging of tech and consciousness view; what is the constantly increasing connected nature of society doing to individuality? (28:51 – 37:42) Why enlightenment isn’t the destruction of the individual; why a society that thrives is a paradox and what this looks like; why Utopia is ultimately fascism and why we should go for another idea instead- as presented by Francis; why none of our mechanisms- not the constitution, and not AI- can save us. (37:45 – 43:34) Can a community become an individual? It is possible for a large group of people to be fully united in goals and aims? How to get a society of 500 million people to agree to a basic social contract. (45:30 – 50:39) What an ideal society looks like in Francis’ view; why he’s anti-utopian; why progress is a tricky metric to measure; why societies should constantly readdress their ideas of progress; why technocracy is a sham, and why society shouldn’t be left in the hands of ‘experts’. (50:58 – 1:01:11) Why enlightenment is a politicized term; why there isn’t just one ultimate enlightenment. Back to progress, why it’s a narrow concept in light of the vastness of being and the knowledge humanity as a whole has lost to time in the death of ancient civilizations. Why non-violence is the core rule of an ideal society and why this rule makes the ideal society inherently unstable. Why the fear of death is the major hindrance to building the ideal society. (1:01:12) Why the individual is greater than society, even though society is bigger; where do ideas come from?; why immortality won’t solve the dilemma of being a human being in our vast universe; What the real aim of meditation is; why you can never fully understand existence. Alternate interpretations of old bible stories; Francis’ summary of what the ideal society is.

Emily Splichal is a podiatrist and the founder of Evidence Based Fitness Academy (EBFA). In this episode, we discuss somatosensation, how awareness of interoception can help manage stress, stem cells, sound and vibration healing, breathwork, chronic pain, functional fitness, and much more. Emily is working on a book titled “Own it: Offensive Techniques to Owning your Health.” You can find her at her various websites namely, dremilysplichal.com, ebfaglobal.com, and neboso.com, or on Instagram @dremilydpm. Enjoy. (Note: This podcast deals heavily with anatomy and uses a lot of medical terms; you may want to skip if that doesn't pique your curiosity.) (2:34) Why don’t other animals have ruffini receptors/ruffinian endings found in humans? (5:53 – 7:18) The relationship between breathing and stress, and somatic responses and stress; an interesting definition of stress in terms of energy. 7:50 – 12:49) Sound healing: how sound and vibration can be used to influence muscular activation and relaxation (it may be possible to sing your way into a high); a possible theory of how breathwork helps manage stress (12:56 – 18:59) Our perception of the inside affects how we view the outside, even before we’re born; how we learn about the world from our mothers while in the womb; the importance of being able to regulate emotions and maintaining a relaxed state of mind during pregnancy, and while raising children. (18:58 – 25:53) Most of our agitation and chronic pain issues result from unconscious cognitive and emotional processes, preventing us from being able to effectively deal with them consciously; how psychedelics and alternative therapy methods can give us access to these aspects of ourselves and help us work through them. (27:34 – 29:43) Stem cells: do they work? Emily shares how she uses them in her treatments and the wrong ways doctors apply them in treating patients. (29:45 – 31:33) Growth factors, what are they? What do they do? Are they different from hormones? (31:39 – 33:56) Functional fitness vs artificial fitness; hammers and axes vs dumbbells and barbells. (33:57 – 35:07) The relationship between the feet and the brain; why the feet are so neurally important; what running barefoot, in nature, can do for memory.

Tuto Assad is the founder of Vitau, an online subscription pharmacy for patients with chronic diseases, specifically targeted to Latin America. In this episode, we discuss entrepreneurship, philosophy, his diabetic conditions, and Tuto gives us a glimpse of what the medical and pharmaceutical industry in Mexico are like. You can find Tuto on all social media platforms at Tuto Assad or on his website at tutoassad.com. Enjoy! (3:13 – 6:28) Seeing beyond the sheen Silicon Valley has placed on entrepreneurship; why you must contextualize when trying to replicate a business model that worked in an environment different from yours; the differences between the healthcare systems in Mexico and the U.S. (6:31 – 8:00) The one thing every entrepreneur needs to keep in mind when it comes to knowledge. (9:10 – 13:21) The major problems patients with chronic diseases in Mexico face; how most local pharmacies fail to address this issue; the solutions Vitau aims to enact in this space. (13:24 – 16:30) An interesting definition of strategy; the two rules that guide Vitau’s focus; why falling in love with a problem is more important than being fixated on a solution. (16:32 – 19:58) Tuto discusses his diabetic condition, how it inspires him to live a healthy lifestyle, and the encouraging words from a priest, when he was first diagnosed at 13, that laid the foundation for his current drive to help people with chronic conditions. 25:00 – 27:14 What is your life philosophy? Tuto discusses his beliefs about what life is and what we’re here to do, and how that relates to doing business. (27:15 – 28:36) How to navigate the hiring process, and relationships in general; how to navigate the search for someone with similar values such that you don’t end up with a clone of yourself. (29:54 – 33:04) Does it make sense to believe in God? If today’s mythology is yesterday’s religion, doesn’t it make sense to think that today’s religion will be tomorrow’s mythology? Hear Tuto’s views on religion and how his search for truth led to him abandoning his Christian faith. (33:48 – 35:15) Why are we trying to understand why we’re here? Why do we try to define life? Tuto offers his opinion on the issue. (39:21 – 42:21) If you had no fears at all, would you have beliefs? A discussion of how fear has shaped most of our religious beliefs and the deepest fear most people have. (42:23) A question to ponder: What do you believe about your business/market that most people don’t and why?

Claire Tiwald is a painter, illustrator, sculptor, and comic book artist, and Fb friend of mine. We talk about wilderness camping, bears, mountain lions, camping in the winter, r-value and why it is important and much more. You can find Claire on her website clairetiwald.com and on her Instagram page @grimlemur. Enjoy! (5:04 – 7:52) What to actually do when you encounter a bear up close; surprising information on which bears are the most dangerous (has little to do with size). (8:07 – 9:25) Countryside vs city, which has scarier people? (I should run a poll on this); why animals are easier and more straightforward to deal with compared to human beings. (10:04 – 12:27) Bears vs Mountain Lions, which should you be warier of? When and where you should watch for mountain lions; how a donkey got between Claire and a bear. (13:29 – 14:45) Do you know you can take a donkey on the Pacific Crest Trail? The pros and cons of doing so; Claire’s experience with one. (16:00 – 18:54) How emotional struggles, her dad, and the healing effects of nature cultivated Claire’s love for the wilderness. (19:00 – 26:50) Tips on camping during winter; r-value: why you should pay attention to the r-value of your camping gear; why you should be wary of synthetic liners, blankets, pants, and clothing in general; why cotton is worse than synthetics for camping during the winter. (26:50 – 30:11) Do you know it’s possible to get hypothermia in the summer? Under special conditions of course; why listening to your body and being in the moment during wilderness hikes is a must; and, going back to camping during winter, how stacking claories up can stave hypothermia off, and why you shouldn’t take any alcohol when camping during the winter. (31:51 – 36:06) Weather forecasting and navigational precautions to take when deciding to go camping during the winter; courses to take on wilderness navigation and how to improve your ability to navigate in general. (37:00) Do you know it is illegal to have a drone in national forest airspace?