Okay, so I think we wrapped up last time talking about Bitcoin as a weapon system,

which is a really interesting discussion.

Maybe we could recap a little bit of that before we segue in today's conversation.

Sure.

So we started our first episode going into a mega deep dive into like what is life and why did it start and what does it mean and what makes life life

I actually after that conversation I went to this bookstore I bought this book store I bought this

book it's called very short history of life on earth by Henry Ghee and And I bought it because on the on the first page,

it talks about the beginning of life. And listen to the sentence. It's talking about how life

basically started as a bunch of bubbles in rock. He said, these simple bubbles found themselves at the very gates of life and that they found

a way to halt if temporarily and with great effort, the otherwise inexorable increase

and entropy, the net amount of disorder in the universe.

Such is an essential property of life.

These foamy lathers of soap bubble cells stood as tiny clenched fists defiant against a lifeless

world.

And I was totally blown away by that quote because that is essentially exactly what our

conversation was down to the part where the role of life is to defy the entropy of the universe.

Clenched fists.

So, you know, I just, it's great because, you know, this idea of power projection is in a lot of ways.

And the story of power projection is in a lot of ways, and the story of power projection is in a lot of ways a story of the cruelty of nature.

You know, another way to say kinetic power projection, and sometimes kinetic power projection is just straight up violence.

It's animals feeding other animals, right? But there is, you know, again, you have to put on your

sociopath hat and look at life through the lens of nature,

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