136 - WWIII vs the Machines | Demetri Kofinas

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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✨ DEBRIEF ✨ | Unpacking the Episode:
https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-demetri

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Demetri Kofinas is a digital entrepreneur and host of the Hidden Forces Podcast, one of our favorites.

Demetri has a broad perspective on geopolitics, which we explore as we discuss the probability of a World War 3, diplomacy among superpowers, and surviving the rise of the machines.

Have we lost the ability to solve hard problems as a species?

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro - Demetri Kofinas
6:30 Hidden Forces
10:26 Towards Chaos
18:00 Cyclical Powers
23:15 Taiwan Case Study
28:30 Trusting Institutions
31:23 State Sovereignty
37:50 Military Power & US Politics
45:00 Liminal Warfare
51:00 Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us
1:00:35 Chinese Algorithms
1:06:15 Unity, Diversity, Identity
1:12:05 Layer Zero Social Values
1:20:05 Losing Our Humanity
1:25:00 Cycling through Chaos
1:28:40 Improving Systems
1:37:30 Closing

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Resources:

Demetri on Twitter
https://twitter.com/kofinas?s=20&t=cNy4k855qT6O3xHtEC6xZw

Hidden Forces
https://hiddenforces.io/

Theories of War with David Kilcullen
https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/david-kilcullen-national-emergency/

Episode 28 - Industrial Society and its Future
https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/demetri-kofinas-industrial-society-and-its-future/

Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us
https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/

Brave New World
https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523

The Fourth Turning
https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464

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Hidden Forces Episodes:

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bankless, where we explored the frontier of internet money and internet finance.
0:11.2	This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run the opportunity.
0:15.2	This is Ryan Sean Adams.
0:16.2	I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more Bankless.
0:21.0	Guys, great episode today.
0:22.6	World War III versus the Machines.
0:24.6	That's the title of this episode.
0:27.0	Those are two of the topics we unpack in this episode.
0:29.0	It's a super ambitious episode, but we have Dimitri Coffinus, who is a fellow podcaster,
0:34.3	host of the Hidden Forces podcast, also an aggregator, like David and I.
0:38.0	There's a lot of things about a lot of things because he talks to a lot of people, so he's
0:41.3	a perfect guest to have this conversation with a few takeaways for you on today's episode.
0:45.4	Number one, what's the probability of World War III?
0:49.3	I know you're wondering, so are we?
0:51.6	We ask that question, we get into the details.
0:53.8	Number two, should the US actually fight China over Taiwan?
0:57.4	What would that even look like?
0:58.9	Number three, we get into a discussion about the Unibomor, Ted Kaczynski.
1:03.0	Did the Unibomor actually predict the future?
1:05.7	He had some prescient things to say about it, certainly.
1:08.2	Number four, will the US survive the rise of the machines?
1:11.1	A lot of conversation about AI, the machines, how they are taking over.
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